Black Friday sees big rebound in consumer spend
Despite coming off the back of a prolonged period of economic headwinds and difficult conditions, South African consumers bounced back during this year’s Black Friday week. Users clocked up massive year-on-year increases in spend on every day of the week, peaking at a...
These are the top business travel tips
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Smart home device shipments continue to decline
Global shipments of smart home devices continued to decline in the first quarter of 2023 as shipments fell 5,6% year over year to 186-million units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Smart speakers and...
Lithium-ion battery inventor John Goodenough dies
John B Goodenough, professor at The University of Texas at Austin and developer of the lithium-ion battery, died Sunday at the age of 100. Goodenough's discovery led to the wireless revolution and put electronic devices in the hands of people worldwide. In 2019,...
Global shocks have impacted energy transition
After a decade of progress, the global energy transition has plateaued amid the global energy crisis and geopolitical volatilities. This is according to a new World Economic Forum report, Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2023, which report suggests that while...
Intel processors score high in MLCommons benchmark
MLCommons has published results of its industry AI performance benchmark, MLPerf Training 3.0, in which both the Habana Gaudi2 deep learning accelerator and the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor delivered impressive training results. “The latest MLPerf results...
Formal employment drops in Q1
According to the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES, Q1:2023) survey released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), total employment in the formal non-agricultural sector decreased by 21 000 in the first quarter of 2023, bringing the level of employment to almost...
Cyberthreats continue to build
Globally, the financial, telecom and energy sectors are coming under increasing cyberattack, according to the June 2023 edition of The CyberThreat Report from the Trellix Advanced Research Centre. The report analyses cybersecurity trends from the last quarter, with...
Challenging economy hits richest and poorest the hardest
The latest Experian Consumer Default Index (CDI), showed a return to the former trend of long-term deterioration, expedited by the rapid increase in living expenses experienced by South African consumers and exacerbated by the significantly intensified load shedding...
CIOs plan to grow their IT teams in 2023
A massive 81% of large enterprise (LE) CIOs plan to increase their IT headcount in 2023, according to a recent survey by Gartner. Only 14% expect their IT staff to decrease, and 5% expect their headcount to remain the same. "Attracting and retaining technology talent...
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Nokia, Facebook expand fixed wireless access
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Land Rover Explore targets the outdoors
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In-home WiFi upgrades from Nokia
Nokia is introducing several enhancements to its in-home WiFi solution that maximise WiFi performance and simplify network management. The new WiFi solution expands Nokia's portfolio with meshed WiFi gateways and beacons, delivers a new WiFi Home Portal for service...
Skills development drives transformation
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SA’s growing shortage of cybersecurity skills
South Africa is facing a shortage of cybersecurity skills. It's nothing new and we are not alone - this is a global challenge - yet, the gaps are growing locally. By Simeon Tassev, MD and qualified security assessor (QSA) at Galix The biggest obstacle: these skills...
Technologies set to change life insurance
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M-Pesa now good for Google Play Store
Global mobile commerce enabler, Docomo Digital has partnered with Safaricom to give customers the option to pay for content on the Google Play Store using M-Pesa. The integration, which is powered by Docomo Digital's mobile commerce enabling platform using Google...
Factory in a box drives Industry 4.0
A Nokia-led group of 12 electronics industry players have unveiled the "factory in a box" concept, showing how manufacturers can stay ahead of the demands of Industry 4.0 through agile production that can be packed, transported and brought back into service in a...
Xerox wins award for ethics
Xerox has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute, a leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, as one of the 2018 World's Most Ethical Companies. The company has been recognized every year since 2006 and is one of only two...
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