ITU's Partner2Connect Digital Coalition has identified new connectivity projects worth $7-billion worldwide in 2023, the UN tech agency announced at ​Partner2Connect's second annual meeting in Geneva. The new commitments increase to nearly $37-billion the value of...

Global shipments of industrial printers declined 2.4% year over year in the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker. However, the market contraction appears to be...

Bytes Technology Group in the UK has announced an offer price of 270 pence per share, valuing the company at £646,6-million. The funds raised will buy the company out of the Altron group. Neil Murphy, CEO of Bytes Technology Group, comments: "It gives us great...

As the use of cloud services continues to grow, enterprise architects and infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders should use seven key elements to create a pragmatic cloud strategy for their organizations, according to Gartner. "A cloud strategy is critical...

Mustek and Huawei have culminated their 10th year of partnership with a gala event to recognise the role of reseller partners in growing the Huawei brand in South Africa. "Over the last 10 years our partners have grown with us," says Mustek CEO David Kan. "Together we...

Cigarette prices have decreased sharply from their highly inflated levels during the sales ban, but are substantially higher than their pre-lockdown levels. The average retail price of cigarette brands produced by the multinationals is nearly 5% higher than before the...

Telkom Consumer and YahClick have signed an agreement which enables individual and business consumers to make high quality voice calls and access broadband data packages from anywhere in South Africa using a satellite connection. For Phase 1, Telkom will commence with...

Cities are home to 3,5-billion people, half of humanity, and this figure is projected to rise to 5-billion by 2030. Government, industry, academia and civil society are working together to accelerate the digital transformation of cities and communities to meet today's...

Online transactions on Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2020 fared slightly better than in previous years as more South Africans chose to do their bargain hunting from the web. 3D-Secure, BankservAfrica's online card authentication service (i.e. transactions that require...

Byron Clatterbuck, who joined Seacom in 2012 as its chief commercial officer and became group CEO in February 2015, has resigned and will be ending his tenure with the company on 31 March 2021. Pieter Uys, chairperson of Seacom, comments: "Mr Clatterbuck has been...