Consumer spending promises festive season recovery
The festive season is in full swing and economic experts are predicting that consumer spending will rebound to pre-pandemic levels, signaling a strong recovery in retail and consumer confidence. This optimism is already taking shape, with inflation falling to a...
Manipulative pricing seen during major shopping events
Many consumers believe they are scoring a great deal during Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or other major shopping events — but are they? A new study from Oxylabs reveals that over 70% of products in major US marketplaces were actually more expensive on Black Friday...
Enterprise WLAN market continues to gain momentum
The enterprise segment of the worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market reached its highest quarterly revenue ever in the fourth quarter of 2022, rising 47,9% YoY to $3,35-billion, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker. The market grew...
SA research on mitigating plastic pollution to be showcased at international science festival
South African research that seeks to mitigate plastic pollution - reducing the threat it poses to plants, animals, and the environment - will be showcased at the 2023 International Festival of Engineering Science and Technology in Tunisia (I-FEST2) later this month....
When it comes to application flaws, the devil is in the data
Regardless of their original size, applications grow in size by about 40% year on year, increasing their exposure to security threats. This is one of the findings from the annual Veracode 2023 State of Software Security report, which aims to assist businesses to meet...
Analysts optimistic about crypto recovery and growth
After one of its harshest years ever, analysts say that the global crypto market continues showing signs of recovery in 2023 with impressive user growth and an expected significant increase in transaction value. Research organisation BitcoinCasinos.com says...
Ethernet switch market continues strong
Worldwide Ethernet switch revenues grew 22% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) to $10,3-billion and grew 18,7% for the full year 2022 to $36,5-billion. The total worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded $4,6-billion in...
New payment standard offers cash-like convenience
Kathy Gibson reports - A broad industry initiative, PayShap is South Africa’s first low-value, interbank, realtime digital payments service that will make digital payments easier and more convenient for all South Africans. The new payments platform was developed by...
OpenFL paves the way to confidential AI
Intel announced that the LF AI & Data Foundation Technical Advisory Council accepted Open Federated Learning (OpenFL) as an incubation project to further drive collaboration, standardisation and interoperability. OpenFL is an open source framework for a type of...
2023 is the ‘moment of truth’ for battery-electric vehicles
Several factors will make 2023 a true test of the resolve of governments and the automotive industry in driving battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) forward, says Gartner. "2023 is the moment of truth to drive full electrification forward," says Pedro Pacheco, VP analyst...
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Start-ups: Don’t drown in data
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BitCo completes 40Gbps national network upgrade
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Gaming technology a faster way to view medical images
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AIS releases DocFusion for Office365
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How to tackle the long road responsibly
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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...
Khonology entrepreneur scoops GeoJozi Challenge prize
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Risk spikes in dispersed enterprise environment
The enterprise business is moving out from behind its firewall into a dispersed bring your own device (BYOD), Internet of things (IoT), cloud-based state. An Enterprise Mobility security strategy is important in controlling risk exposure in this new environment, to...
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