AI boosts Cyber Week sales
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Device spending to hit all-time high next year
After fluctuating over the past three years, global spending on IT devices - including desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and printers - has surged in 2024, rising by 6% year-over-year to $735-billion, according to research from Stocklytics.com. And this...
PC workstation shipments slow after record year
The global desktop and mobile workstation market began 2022 with strong momentum but ultimately faced saturation and economic realities near the year's end. Unit shipments in the fourth quarter of 2022 (22Q4) shrank 22.2% compared to a year ago as IT device spending...
Machines are now inbound service contact centre customers
By 2026, 20% of inbound customer service contact volume will come from machine customers, according to Gartner. Machine customers are nonhuman economic actors that obtain goods or services in exchange for payment. In customer service and support, they will resemble...
Europe dominates global Internet penetration rates
Europe has been leading the way in terms of internet penetration rates with Northern Europe coming out on top with 97% of its population using the internet. Western Europe followed closely behind with 93,5%. According to TradingPlatforms.com, the rest of the world is...
Floki, Bone ShibaSwap the biggest meme coin gainers
Despite criticism, meme coins continue gaining traction fuelled by their growing online communities. According to data presented by BitcoinCasinos.com, Floki and Bone ShibaSwap are the biggest gainers among the top five meme coins, as their market caps surged 351% and...
300m to use cryptocurrencies in 2024
The 2022 crypto winter has had a brutal impact on the entire market, wiping hundreds of billions of dollars off the global crypto market cap and wounding thousands of crypto companies across the world. But, despite the headwinds and setbacks, investors' interest in...
Security and risk management spend set for growth
End-user spending on security and risk management in the middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is forecast to total $2,8-billion in 2023, an increase of 10,4% from 2022, according to Gartner. “Security and risk management leaders in MENA are expected to increase...
Majority of Africans tricked into believing deepfakes are real
The Top Risks Report 2023 by the Eurasia Group defined advances in deepfakes and the rapid rise of misinformation as ‘weapons of mass disruption’ and it is not far from wrong Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and powerful facial recognition and voice synthesis...
Researchers drive hyper-local climate modeling
The do-it-yourself climate modeling movement is here. Researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory have been launching Nvidia Jetson-driven edge computing Waggle devices across the globe to collect hyper-local climate information. Waggle is...
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Start-ups: Don’t drown in data
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SAP Africa showcases Hybris solutions
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BitCo completes 40Gbps national network upgrade
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AIS releases DocFusion for Office365
Local specialist software and IT service provider Assimilated Information Systems (AIS) has reinvented its cloud strategy and made its DocFusion365 cloud-based document automation engine available to SharePoint users via the Microsoft store. The offering is accessible...
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Wipro, ASG partner on intelligence, compliance
Wipro and ASG Technologies have announced an expanded partnership that integrates the offerings of Wipro's Data Management Centre of Excellence (CoE) with ASG's Enterprise Data Intelligence solution to improve compliance for the global financial services companies. A...
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