SA holds its own as global AI adoption accelerates

Worldwide adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the first quarter of 2026, according to Microsoft’s Global AI Diffusion Q1 2026 Trends and Insights report from its AI Economy Institute. During the quarter, AI usage increased by 1,5 percentage points...

Enterprise AI hits the wall

Enterprise AI is outgrowing the architecture and infrastructure beneath it as data privacy and sovereignty requirements tighten, according to new research from NTT Data. The latest research finds a widening split between enterprises that are redesigning AI for...

Information integrity passes geopolitics as the top risk

Information integrity risk, caused by the proliferation of AI‑enabled decision-making and uncertain AI transparency requirements, gained the top rank of emerging risks for the first quarter of 2026, according to Gartner. The Gartner Quarterly Emerging Risk...

SA skills gap: Where talent supply and employer demand collide

South Africa faces a persistent disconnect between the talent available in the labour market and the qualifications that employers are seeking, according to the latest Pnet Job Market Trends Report for April. Around half (54%) of job adverts posted in the last 12...

Addressing SADC’s cross-border payments dilemma

With a population spanning almost 400-million people across 16 countries, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has the widest-reaching regional bloc in Africa, holding massive appeal for trade exchanges to strengthen economies and benefit communities....

Single-vendor SASE revenue on the rise

The portion of the SASE market where vendors offer both SD-WAN and SSE (security service edge) solutions grew an impressive 55% year-over-year (Y/Y) in 1Q 2023, according to a report from Dell'Oro Group. By doing so, single-vendor SASE overtook the multi-vendor SASE...

Privacy regulations to affect SA for 10 years

South African marketers expect new regulations governing data privacy to have the biggest impact over the next 10 years. Salesforce's sixth annual global State of Marketing report reveals that, in addition, an expanded online population as more people get internet...

41% of SA parents see potential danger in kids’ social media

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced families to spend their free time mostly at home. Staying at home usually also means spending much time using different Internet connected devices. For clear reasons, children's growing online activity can cause lots of worries to...

NASA supercomputers power Covid-19 research

NASA is flexing its supercomputing muscle to help crack some of the most pressing questions surrounding Covid-19, from basic science on how the virus interacts with cells in the human body to genetic risk factors to screening for potential therapeutic drugs. In...

Obituary: Helen Baartman

Helen Baartman, chief financial officer of TVR Computers and a veteran of IT distribution, has died. She was born on 3 December 1953 and died on 25 May 2020. Founded 27 years ago, TVR is a broad-based distributor of IT products and components, representing brands such...

Enterprise software spend set for first drop in 10 years

Data obtained by Buyshares.co.uk shows that the global spending on enterprise software for 2020 will reach $426-billion, the first drop in 10 years. The drop breaks an upward trajectory that began in 2009. The spending reached an all-time high of $458-billion in 2019,...

Tablet market outlook for 2020 is bleak

In the first quarter of 2020, the overall tablet market in EMEA reached 8,8-million units, declining 9,6% YoY. D According to International Data Corporation (IDC), despite the increase in the commercial segment sustained by the demand for mobile solutions to address...

Smartphone sales show 20% decline

Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 20,2% in the first quarter of 2020, according to Gartner. The global shelter-in-place, combined with the economic uncertainty brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, led to demand for smartphones collapsing as consumers...

Keys to unlocking vehicle sales

New vehicle sales looked for a jump start as the industry resumed activity from a practically dormant April. Levels of activity and sales during May showed the very real impact provided by the decision to allow the motor industry to return to work under Alert Level 4....

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