Worldwide smartphone recovery finally gets underway
Over the past seven years, the worldwide smartphone market has contracted six times on an annual basis. However, 2024 is set to be the year where the smartphone market swings back to growth. According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
Mobile industry commits $9bn for universal meaningful connectivity
Mobile operator groups have pledged more than $9-billion to extend global connectivity. Alongside the new commitments, the UN Digital Agency also announced that it now has over 1 000 industry, academia and organisational members in addition to its 193 Member States....
SA’s transport sector must dive into digital to deliver value
Rapid population growth and increased urbanisation will have a significant impact on South Africa's transport infrastructure as freight and passenger transport demand rises. The transport sector's only option to keep up is through digitalisation. This is the word from...
Companies fall down of measuring greenhouse gas emissions
/A massive eighty-five percent of organisations are concerned about reducing their greenhouse gas emissions - but measurement is still a significant roadblock, with only 9% of companies able to quantify their total emissions comprehensively. These are among the...
SAP’s Cathy Smith makes top female leaders list
Cathy Smith, MD of SAP Sub-Saharan Africa, has been named as one of the top 50 women CEOs leading corporate Africa. Big business, for purposes of the Africa.com survey, is defined as being listed on one of Africa's stock exchanges and having a market capitalisation of...
Digital Faku’gesi returns to Braamfontein and online
South Africa's digital arts festival Faku'gesi kicked off this Thursday, 14 October. The festival, which is a hybrid event, is taking place via a virtual platform and in the Tshimologong PrecinctinBraamfontein. Now in its eighth year, the festival features an array of...
South Africans rush to book UK flights
South Africa's removal from the UK's travel red list on 7 October has resulted in a flood of enquiries and bookings for The Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG). On 8 October, the group saw its revenue for October shoot up by 89% across its leisure brands. In the hours...
Corporate lawyers are exhausted from the pandemic
The pandemic has taken a toll on many lawyers, as a survey of 202 corporate lawyers in July 2021 showed that 54% are exhausted to some degree, with 20% scoring as highly exhausted, according to Gartner. "The fact that many corporate lawyers are exhausted is probably...
Cellular IoT gateway vendors first-to-market with 5G devices for IoT
Close to 3,7-million cellular IoT gateways were shipped globally during 2020, at a total market value of approximately $1,01-billion. Berg Insight has released new findings about the market for cellular IoT gateways and routers, finding that annual sales were flat...
Content platforms drive ECM evolution
Kathy Gibson reports from Hyland CommunityLive 2021 – Disruption is driving organisations to really think about their digital experiences and to examine their content and processes in a new light. The have to become resilient and adaptive, says Cheryl McKinnon,...
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Sophos Cloud promotes user-based approach
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Sisonke uses Xerox digital colour presses
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Riverbed renames products
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