A new global survey of 5000 consumers reveals critical changes to consumer spending amid inflation and economic uncertainty. These findings highlight current sentiment on spending and what it will take to earn consumer loyalty in 2023. Retail, travel, hospitality,...

Cybercriminals will use media to blackmail organisations, alleged data leaks, and purchasing initial access to previously compromised companies on the darknet. These are among the threats that large business and government structures should prepare for in 2023,...

The African Development Bank has joined forces with 11 other international organisations to assist developing countries to build resilience against the impact of natural disasters caused by extreme weather. Following a series of deadly weather events that have caused...

According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of telematics service subscribers using embedded systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27,1% from 80,4-million subscribers at the end of 2018 to 339,3-million...

African leaders are urged to stand together and present a united front to tackle climate change. This is one of the main messages to come out of Africa Day at the COP 25 climate meeting. Speaking on behalf of the African Union, Egypt's minister of environmental...

The IT channel should be braced for much weaker performance in the PC market in 2020, with year-on-year sales likely to turn negative in the second half of the year. Analysing data collected from vendors, resellers and distributors, Context believes strong commercial...

Umhlanga-based financial services provider Talksure has walked away with gold at the 2019 Contact Centre World Global Awards. CEO Jacques de Beer, accepted the award for Best Large-Sized Contact Centre at a prestigious awards ceremony held at the Fairmont in...

Lenovo and Intel will collaborate to modernise HPC infrastructure at Austria's most powerful supercomputer - the Vienna Scientific Cluster-4 (VSC-4). Built on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, VSC-4 supports more than 300...

In 2019, the number of unique malicious objects detected by Kaspersky's web antivirus solution rose by an eighth, compared to last year -- reaching 24 610 126. This growth was mainly influenced by a 187% rise in web skimmer files. Other threats, such as backdoors and...

EOH Abantu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EOH, has entered into a sale of shares agreement with Afrocentric Health (RF) to dispose of all of its shares in Dental Information Systems Holdings (Denis) for a total value of R250-million. Denis, together with its...