While the past year will be remembered for some incredibly destructive events, the tech industry managed a show of some resilience, wrapping up ahead of expectations - although not without its own surprises. "Most industry players entered 2023 with fairly low...

Connected and software-defined vehicles (SDVs) represent a new paradigm for automakers and consumers, writes James Falkiner, technology analyst at IDTechEx. Whereas older ICE vehicles were a conglomeration of 70+ Electronic Control units, kilometres of wiring, and...

Businesses around the world experienced unprecedented long-term disruption to their operations almost overnight due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Cisco's 2021 Global Networking Trends Report: Business Resilience Special Edition identifies resiliency as the ability for a...

SolarWinds says it has purged the malware responsible for recent attacks on US government departments. The attack, which is believed to be the work of Russian hackers, is known to have hit the US State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and parts of the...

Kaspersky researchers have identified two APT incidents that targeted entities related to Covid-19 research - a Ministry of Health body and a pharmaceutical company. Kaspersky experts assessed with high confidence that the activities, which were uncovered about three...

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, worldwide converged systems market revenue grew 0.3% year over year to $3.9 billion during the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20). "The overall converged systems market...

The EMEA external storage systems market was down 5,4% year-on-year in dollars and 10% in euros in 2020Q3, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. Once again, the quarter saw marked differences across...

While it was already under way prior to the pandemic, the global shift to digital payments has been positively affected by the crisis. According to the research data analysed and published by Finnish website Sijoitusrahastot, the global digital payments market grew by...

1 January 2021 marked the start of preferential trade for South Africa under two new trade agreements: the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and with the UK under the SACU, Mozambique-UK Economic Partnership Agreement. South Africa has put in place the...

Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, has escaped extradition to the US – for now. A UK judge today ruled that extraditing him to the US would be “oppressive”, citing his mental health and risk of suicide. The US is appealing the ruling, and...