AI drives growing shared cloud infrastructure spend
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 36,9% year over year in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24) to $33-billion, according to the International Data Corporation...
Absa PMI inches up as challenges linger
The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) increased by 1.9 points to reach 45.7 points in June 2024, compared to 43.8 in May 2024. While there is some improvement, it was the second consecutive month that the PMI remained below the 50-point mark....
Top global tech stocks lost more than $3,3trn in Q2
The ongoing geopolitical situation and rising inflationary pressure continue to impact the technology sector with 24 of the top 25 technology companies reporting a combined loss of $3,3-trillion in their market capitalisation (MCap) in Q2 2022, finds GlobalData....
June goes into the record books as sixth warmest
Globally, June 2022 was the sixth-warmest June in the 143-year NOAA record. The year-to-date (January-June) global surface temperature was also the sixth warmest on record. According to NCEI’s Global Annual Temperature Outlook, there is a greater than 99% chance that...
Another decline for smartphone shipments
Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 8.7% year over year in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This marks the fourth consecutive quarter of decline...
Chatbots set to be primary customer service channel by 2027
By 2027, chatbots will become the primary customer service channel for roughly a quarter of organizations, according to Gartner. "Chatbots and virtual customer assistants (VCAs) have evolved over the past decade to become a critical technology component of a service...
Software needed to monitor social and environmental sustainability
While environmental issues have dominated the ESG/sustainability narrative, a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) survey finds that social sustainability topics account for the largest share of use cases for sustainability software. These human and social...
Disappointing Q2 results drive urgency to boost Meta ad business
Meta has reported its first-ever year-over-year drop in revenue. Rachel Foster Jones, thematic analyst at GlobalData, offers her view: "Meta is facing the perfect storm, from slashed advertising budgets due to inflation, Apple's crackdown on privacy, competition with...
Electronic visas could transform travel
SITA today announced the launch of SITA eVisa and SITA Electronic Travel Authorisation to meet the rapidly-growing demand from governments for digital visa systems to stimulate national economies after Covid-19, strengthen security and improve the travel experience....
Malware campaign hunts Discord messenger users
On July 26, using the internal automated system for monitoring open-source repositories, Kaspersky researchers identified a malicious campaign dubbed LofyLife. The campaign employed four malicious packages spreading Volt Stealer and Lofy Stealer malware in the...
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New user group targets Unix users, techies
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Minecraft brought to Hour of Code
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HP workstation storage is even faster
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CA expands DevOps portfolio
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Leveraging the cloud to improve operational efficiency
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SES extends African satellite coverage
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Consumers warned of computer takeover scam
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BDS boosts MPS delivery with key appointment
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Ericsson Mobile Wallet wins AfricaCom award
The Ericsson Wallet Platform has been names as the 2015 winner of the AfricaCom Best Mobile Money Service award. The Mobile Money Service award is given in recognition of excellence in mobile financial services that have shown potential for both scalability and...
Samsung releases Gear G2 SDK
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