Spend on cybersecurity set to skyrocket
Organisations worldwide have significantly increased their cybersecurity budgets, but research firm Stocklytics.com says that total spend on cybersecurity tools and services will skyrocket in the next few years - jumping by 50% and reaching $272-billion in revenue by...
Geo-distributed companies likely to have network problems
Fifty-nine percent geo-distributed businesses globally - and 60% in South Africa - have experienced network problems related to their multi-site structure at least once a month. This is according to a Kaspersky survey of Network and Information Security decision...
Shenzhen lockdown could impact tech supply chain
The global technology supply chain could be adversely affected by the latest round of lockdowns in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The city, home to more than 17-million people, houses the head offices of Huawei and Tencent, as well as the factories that turn out most...
Employers should brace for mass talent exodus
IT workers are more inclined to quit their jobs than employees in other functions, with a 10,2% lower intent to stay than non-IT employees -- the lowest out of all corporate functions, according to a survey by Gartner. Gartner surveyed 18 000 employees globally in Q4...
US consumers think brands should reconsider Russian business
Sixty percent of US consumers believe that brands should reconsider doing business in Russia or partnering with Russian companies in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine, according to Gartner. A Gartner survey of 281 consumers based in the US between 25...
NASA’s NuSTAR makes illuminating discoveries with ‘nuisance’ light
A design quirk in the X-ray observatory has made it possible for astronomers to use previously unwanted light to study even more cosmic objects than before. For almost 10 years, NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) X-ray space observatory has been...
Wearables deliver double-digit growth
The worldwide wearables market hit a new record high in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21) as shipments reached 171-million units, up 10,8% from the same quarter last year, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable...
Intel launches new vPro platform
Intel has announced the latest Intel vPro platform, powered by 12th Gen Intel Core, adding performance for business productivity. "The next gen of the Intel vPro platform was designed to deliver even greater security, performance and manageability for all businesses,"...
Strong gains for Ethernet switch market
The worldwide Ethernet switch market grew 11,8% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21) with revenues reaching $8,5-billion. For the full year 2021, the market recorded $30,7-billion in revenues for a year-over-year growth rate of 9,7%. Meanwhile, the...
Global security appliance market sees Q4 growth
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, vendor revenue in the overall security appliance market grew 9,7% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21) totaling more than $5,8-billion and representing...
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Samsung announces first B2B tablet
Samsung Electronics South Africa unveiled the Galaxy Tab Active, Samsung’s first tablet built specifically for business, applying Samsung’s trusted mobile leadership and people-inspired innovation philosophy to the workplace. The next step in Samsung’s legacy of...
Cascade explores digital creativity
The much-awaited Fak’ugesi: Digital Africa Festival, will see the festival’s Cascade event take centre stage this week. The exciting five-day workshop series will be led by British digital art organisation ‘onedotzero’, with over 16 years’ experience in curating and...
Governments benefit from big data
The term big data has been stealing the headlines lately for all the right reasons. It has been named as a game changer, a paradigm shifter, a means through which enterprises can unlock a host of new value and communication power. In almost every sector, big data has...
Obami grows NSC past paper library
Hot on the heels of their Creative Commons OpenMe Course and the recently updated digital ANA assignments for teachers and parents, Obami have just announced they've added to their library of NSC past papers. They now have over 230 Sit 'n' Submit assignments, across...
South African game developers shine
There’s no doubt about it: "game developer” is one of the coolest job titles ever. There are now hundreds of South Africans wearing that job title (196 full-time, and 284 part-time, according to a recent survey by Make Games South Africa) and making their mark in an...
Jumia releases mobile app
The mobile Internet sector in Africa is developing rapidly, with smartphones becoming much more affordable and growing in popularity. Jumia, Africa’s leading online retailer, has taken advantage of this with a mobile app that allows an increasing number of Africans to...
FNB customers withdraw R9,5bn from retailers
FNB has announced that R9,5-billion has been withdrawn from tills across South Africa since the inception of the Cash@Till service for customers in 2012. Sixty-five percent of this amount was withdrawn in the last year alone (since July 2013). “We have seen strong...
E-learning as a modern training solution
Electronic learning (e-learning) has gained massive traction in workplaces around the world, though South African companies have been slower to embrace its potential. But its benefits are clear, and it can offer organisations more effective, cost-efficient ways of...
Hellofood wins Best E-Commerce Site award
At the inaugural Digital Impact Awards, held in Kampala, Uganda on 21 August, three Africa Internet Holding companies (Jumia, Hellofood and Kaymu), were nominated in the Best E-commerce Site category, with online food ordering platform Hellofood taking home the prize....
Change business with operational analytics
As big data analytics moves beyond a buzzword in marketing circles, global enterprises are now also starting to see the potential value of turning analytics inward, to improve their own operations, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager at LGR. When...
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