A report by the GSM Association (GSMA) and the UK's Department for Business and Trade highlighted the impact of e-commerce on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to help them grow new markets, profitability and resilience. However, in Africa, online retail as...

A new study published in Preventive Medicine journal found that four years of consistently inadequate sleep in corporate executives was associated with adverse cardiometabolic health. Led by Paula Pienaar, a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Vrije...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against educational resources grew exponentially over the first half (H1-20) of this year when compared to the previous year. For each month from January to June 2020, the number of DDoS attacks affecting educational online...

By August 31, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) had received more than 160 536 applications since the opening date, on 3 August 2020. During the first month, on average, NSFAS has been receiving more than 5 000 applications a day, with the number going...

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has confirmed that the invitation to apply (ITA) for both the Wireless Open Access Network (WOAN) and the International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) spectrum (also known as high demand spectrum) will...

Across the globe individuals remain highly concerned about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on their daily lives, but there are clear differences in outlook across age groups and countries. The August findings of an ongoing IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV)...

Nearly 1,7-million mobile subscribers are infected with mobile malware in South Africa alone, according to full year 2019 data by Secure-D. According to the company, malware is the main culprit responsible for airtime theft and mobile ad fraud evident in the country,...

The worldwide Ethernet switch market recorded $6,6-billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20), a decrease of 6,3% year over year. Meanwhile, worldwide total enterprise and service provider (SP) router market revenues recorded a slight year-over-year gain,...

The number of connected EV charging points in Europe and North America reached an estimated 0,9-million units in 2019. According to Berg Insight, Europe represents the largest share of around 0,6-million of these charging points, corresponding to a connectivity...

Facebook has blocked the live broadcast of a man who aimed to document his death on the social media platform. Frenchman Alain Cocq initially appealed for a medically-assisted death, which was denied by president Emmanual Macron. Cocq wanted to show followers his...