Polygon, Cardano the worst crypto performers
The 2024 crypto bull run, which some think could be the largest crypto space has ever seen, has helped the world's largest digital coins reach their multi-year highs, bringing impressive gains to crypto investors. Although most leading cryptos saw double and...
Axiz retains VMware distribution
Following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware last November, and a period of uncertainty about the local channel, Axiz has confirmed it will continue to distribute VMware software in South Africa. The distributor has informed partners that their relationship with Axiz...
Altron sells off Altron People Solutions
Altron has announced the sale of its Altron People Solutions business, which was held for sale for the past year. Altron People Solutions' Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Customer Experience Technology (CXTech) business has been acquired by iSON Xperiences, a...
Mobile PC revenues continue to exceed 2019 level
Revenue sales for notebooks and tablets continued to beat 2019 levels over the summer, with Wi-Fi 6-equipped notebooks performing particularly well. Context's Revenue Trend Index plots current performance against a value of 100 for each category, which is equivalent...
Surge in gaming PCs, monitors set to continue
According to the latest forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Gaming Tracker, worldwide shipments of gaming PCs and monitors continue to grow at rates faster than their parent markets. For gaming PCs, which includes both desktop...
Covid-19, funding shortfalls devastate efforts to end TB by 2030
The Stop TB Partnership has released new data showing how the Covid-19 pandemic and dismally low levels of funding represent the main barriers to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of ending tuberculosis (TB) by 2030. The data from 2021 shows...
Ethics reaches the top of Gartner’s privacy hype cycle
Digital ethics sits at the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Privacy, 2021, as people become increasingly aware of the value of their personal information and frustrated by lack of transparency and continuing misuse. Gartner defines digital ethics as the systems of...
Big increase for global internet bandwidth
Global internet bandwidth rose by 29% in 2021, a return to "normal" over the previous year's Covid-driven surge of 34%. TeleGeography's Global Internet Geography Research Service analyzes the meaning behind internet capacity and traffic data sets, the factors...
Women still under-represented in world science
A study reporting on the inclusion and participation of women in over 120 science organisations that are co-ordinated at a global level finds that women are still under-represented. The study was coordinated by GenderInSITE (Gender in Science, Innovation, Technology...
Aspiring digital leaders need a new operating model
When we went into our first lockdown in 2020, industry analysts predicted the rapid advancement of digital transformation. What was overlooked by many was that, while we knew the old world was in crisis, the new digital world was still forming - complicating...
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Sophos positioned in Gartner quadrant
Sophos has announced that it was, once again, positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection. The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company’s market understanding, strategy and completeness of vision within the...
The implications of mobile for business
We live in a world with over six-billion cell phones, over one-billion of which are smart phones. As a result, more individuals have cell phones than access to safe drinking water. Within the next 10 years virtually all mobile phones will be smartphones, giving...
Intervate wins at Microsoft Partner Awards
Enterprise information management solution provider Intervate IT has emerged as the major winner at Microsoft’s annual Partner Network Awards, announced at a gala dinner in Johannesburg last night. The annual awards honour Microsoft partners for delivering innovative...
Creating truly Agile development teams
Agile development is the trending buzzword in the software development world, and for good reason. It is arguably the major revolution in the software development process over the past decade, says Clinton Bosch, architect at BSG Africa. Scrum gatherings are a regular...
Best practices make BYOD simple and secure
As consumerisation continues to transform IT, organisations are moving quickly to design strategies to allow and embrace bring your own device (BYOD), says Michael Church, enterprise manager, Citrix South Africa. Empowered to choose the best device to get their work...
ESN can filter out unnecessary data
Every day, people are flooded by a deluge of information. It is sometimes difficult to keep up and one can feel downright overwhelmed between e-mails cluttering up your inbox at an alarming rate and being confronted by the rapidly updated blogs and feeds on the...
Local retailers have advantage in Africa
With international retail chains eyeing the African market, South African retailers will need to beef up supply chain efficiencies at scale but could easily outdo competitors with their built-in understanding of apportioning their offering to meet regional or local...
Seven steps for SMS success
Given that mobile penetration rates in SA are higher than any other medium, mobile communication is undoubtedly one of the best ways to reach the widest audience, says Desere Orrill, is group CMO of Ole! Media Holdings and MD of MobiMedia. Text messaging is quick,...
NetApp to deliver cloud data management
CIOs are moving from being builders and operators of data centres to becoming brokers of application and information services. They are embracing new technologies and service models to deliver IT faster, cheaper, and smarter, while making their companies more...
Kaspersky Lab wins AV-Test award
Kaspersky Lab is pleased to announce it has received a coveted AV-Test Innovation Award for its protection of online financial transactions. The experts at AV-Test were unanimous in recognising the overall effectiveness of Kaspersky Lab’s ability to protect financial...
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