IBM concedes patent filing leadership
After 29 years of dominating patent acquisition, IBM finds itself at a crossroads as its patent filings plummeted by nearly 60% in just two years. According to Stocklytics.com, the decline comes as tech giants such as Samsung and TSMC pivot their focus towards...
Dominated by Open AI and Meta, GenAI races past $66bn
The generative AI market exceeded the $66-billion mark, with Open AI and Meta AI flagging their dominance with 56% market share. This is according to Stocklytics financial analyst Edith Reads, who comments: "The start of Chat GPT in 2022 was the first plunge into...
Prepare for digital infrastructure in 2022 and beyond
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SaaS, virtual set to dominate network security market
Demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS)- and virtual-based network security is anticipated to represent 51% of the $33-billion total network security market revenue in 2026, according to a Dell'Oro report. “Since the arrival of the first network security appliances in...
Limited IP resources leave smaller ISPs vulnerable
Over the last few years, Internet service providers (ISPs) have invested heavily in ramping up and fortifying their security infrastructures. Despite the sophisticated security infrastructure that ISPs have put in place, the sheer number of attacks has left smaller...
New MD for Westcon-Comstor Africa
Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa has announced the appointment of Vincent Entonu as MD for its Africa region. Effective 1 March 2022, Entonu will be tasked with daily oversight of the global distributor's African region while providing executive management local...
Dark matter study proposes how to measure what we cannot see
Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out from the centre, with illuminated gas in between. But our eyes can only glimpse the surface of what holds our galaxy together. About 95% of the mass of our galaxy is invisible...
Remote work creates a gap in security practices
As the threat landscape evolves and cyber-attacks become increasingly more sophisticated, many organisations have surprisingly not implemented security solutions that ensure best-in-class connectivity and security for remote employees. This is among the findings from...
Regional ICT spending set to hit $229bn
Overall spending on information and communications technology (ICT) across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) will top $229-billion this year, an increase of 2,7% over 2021 as the market continues to rebound from the turbulence of the last two years....
Supply chain frontline workers settle on hybrid working
A massive 61% of supply chain leaders believe that the acceleration of remote work due to the pandemic will create a permanent hybrid work model, even at the frontline, according to Gartner. The annual Gartner Future of Supply Chain survey of 983 supply chain leaders...
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The revised B-BBEE Codes
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DiData rolls out Intel vPro
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QlikView SA wins award from Qlik
QlikView South Africa, the local distributor of QlikView and QlikSense business intelligence (BI) tools from Qlik, again received top honours at this year’s Qonnections 2015 global partner summit – this time winning Academic Partner of the Year in the first conferral...
Ruckus unveils SmartZone software platform
Ruckus Wireless has announced the introduction of its new SmartZone software platform, a carrier-grade solution developed for and deployed by service providers around the globe, now extended to demanding enterprise customers. This future-ready solution powering Ruckus Smart WiFi products and technologies addresses the growing challenges that enterprises and service providers face in delivering high-performance, reliable WiFi, while also providing them with a clear path to meet constantly increasing network infrastructure performance and service requirements.
DCC wins APC award
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has taken home honours at APC by Schneider Electric’s Middle East and Africa (MEA) Partner Conference, held in Budapest, Hungary from 10 to 13 May 2015. DCC received the "Against All Odds – South Africa" award which is based...
Pricer boosts growth for Toy Adventures
Toy Adventures at Byls Bridge in Centurion has implemented Pricer electronic shelf labels (ESLs) from XON Retail Solutions to improve supply chain management, improve sales and marketing in the store, and both empower and reduce the burden on employees. Gerhard Korf, owner of Toy Adventures, seeks to exploit the potential supply chain efficiencies and sales insights offered by the Pricer system to grow his business as opposed to focusing on cost saving benefits.
Why passwords don’t work
The IT security industry has been warning about the fallibility of passwords for years, yet the situation hasn’t changed. Millions of people still depend on the most common password - ‘password’, simple number sequences like ‘12345’ or the name of their dog to secure...
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