Africa comes under [cyber]attack
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa 2024 – A massive 74% of African organisations have experienced attacks in 2023 – 18% more than in 2022. Phishing is the main attack vector, at 75% of attacks. Significantly, 57% of African organisations were not prepared with a...
PC sales slump sees shipments slashed by 100m units
Over the past two years, PC shipments plummeted by more than 100-million units, according to research group Stocklytics, which adds that 2023 culminated in a historic low for the industry. Global PC shipments fell from approximately 342-million units in 2021 to around...
NVidia adds new GeForce devices, partners, omniverse for creators
At CES, NVidia has set out a new direction for the ultimate platform for gamers and creators, unveiling more than 160 gaming and laptop designs based on Studio GeForce, as well as new desktop and laptop GeForce RTX GPUs and technologies. The company also announced new...
AMD unveils new mobile graphics
AMD has unveiled additions and enhancements to the AMD Radeon graphics portfolio to deliver incredible, next-level experiences to more gamers. Bringing higher levels of performance to power a new class of premium laptops, the new solutions expand the AMD Radeon RX...
Will more countries adopt bitcoin as legal tender?
Bitcoin will be adopted as legal tender in three more countries in 2022, predicts Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group. His prediction follows a forecast made on Sunday by Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador who tweeted a series of predictions about bitcoin to his...
Telkom confirms Interdict against ICASA ITA
Telkom confirms that it has filed an application asking the Gauteng High Court to review and set aside the Invitations To Apply (ITAs) published by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) on the 10 December 2021. The application includes an...
Sustainable packaging commitments won’t be met by 2025
While enterprise commitments to sustainable packaging have centered on 100% of packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025, Gartner predicts that 90% of those public sustainable packaging commitments won’t be met by 2025 due to reliance on plastics and...
Digital Reality to buy majority stake in Teraco
Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Teraco Data Environments from a consortium of investors, including...
Campus switch sales hit an all-time high
Worldwide, campus switch market revenue reached a record level in 3Q 2021, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group. Growth was mostly propelled by 1 Gbps, which reached a record level in shipments during the quarter, while NBase-T ports were down Y/Y. “We have been...
Off-highway vehicle telematics systems set for rapid growth
Berg Insight estimates that the global installed base of active off-highway vehicle telematics systems reached 5,2-million units in 2020. This includes connected units deployed on various off-highway vehicles across the construction, mining, agriculture and forestry...
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Dell introduces new Inspiron laptops
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Oracle boosts OpenStack ecosystem
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CMH converges networks, cuts costs
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The cost of non-original toner cartridges
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Document management eases GRC concerns
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Digital displays enable collaboration
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Ericsson named leader in Magic Quadrant
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BCX expands PPO use for greater insight
The Business Connexion Application Services (BCX-AS) department of Business Connexion (BCX), has seen a number of benefits since its rollout of Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, including the...
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