South Africa has come in as the country with the third-highest penetration of smart homes. Worldwide, household penetration is predicted to reach 33,2% by 2028 up from 18,9% in 2024, according to Statista. But some countries are already actively embracing smart home...

Blue Label Telecoms has issued a statement warning shareholders that basic, headline and core headline earnings per share for the six-month period ended 30 November 2023 will increase by more than 20% in comparison to the six-month period ended 30 November 2022....

Microsoft has agreed to buy Nuance Communications for $56.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $19,7-billion, inclusive of Nuance’s net debt. Nuance is a cloud and AI software player in the healthcare and enterprise AI space. Mark Benjamin will remain...

EOH has reported continued financial improvements for the six months ended 31 January 2021. The revenue of R4 376-million saw a decline, mainly attributable to disposals and legacy contracts. But gross profit margin increased to 27,6% from 24,2% in the prior period....

Cape Town has improved its position by 20 places in this year’s Schroders Global Cities Index, and is currently number 438 in the 2020 rankings. This places the city 20 places higher on the list since the publication of the 2019 Index. The improved ranking is the...

The move to mass remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic saw the mobile attack surface expand dramatically, resulting in 97% of organisations facing mobile threats from several attack vectors, according to Checkpoint's 2021 Mobile Security Report. With 60% of...

Vodacom Group will partner with the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) to build digital infrastructure to manage vaccinations across up to 55 countries following successful deployments in South Africa (to manage Covid-19 vaccinations) and in Mozambique,...

South Africa is firmly in the sights of international cybercrime syndicates who have been ramping up their attacks on local companies in the past six months, according to security specialist Nclose. ‎ Martin Potgieter, co-founder & technical director at ‎Nclose,...

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 69,9-million units in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 32% from the first quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results by Gartner. The market rebounded from a weak first quarter of 2020 to record the fastest year-over-year...

About 604 059 new malicious programs (malware) and potentially unwanted applications (PUA) are globally registered daily in 2021, according to data from research group Finbold. The estimates are based on the already registered 61,01-million new malware between 1...