PC shipments tank as memory crunch bites

Worldwide PC shipments fell 4,9% year-over-year in Q2 2026 to 68,2-million units, according to IDC — the first decline after nine consecutive quarters of growth. A persistent memory chip shortage drove the reversal, pushing vendors to pull inventory forward as far as...

AI, cross-border trade reshape e-commerce in SA

AI could soon choose what we buy, sustainability has shifted from nice-to-have to non-negotiable, and second-hand shopping is rapidly becoming mainstream, according to DHL’s E-Commerce Trends Report 2026. Based on survey findings from 29 000 online shoppers and 5 800...

How air transport industry plans to move 10bn passengers a year

It really sounds like a frequent flyer’s dream: Borders cleared in 10 seconds; weather delays cut by 65%; lost luggage down 90%; AI continually driving efficiency. But all this is becoming reality, says the SITA Impact Report 2025, documenting a year of customer-led...

Euclid space telescope marks a milestone in cosmic history

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found - and two of these giant and dazzling galaxy cores, powered by gargantuan black holes, are the earliest quasars yet observed in cosmic history. They shone with...

Apple Vision Pro headset sparks mixed reactions

Apple's Vision Pro, the mixed-reality headset unveiled at the June 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference, has created a substantial buzz in the tech industry, translating into a notable increase in Reddit discussions during the second week of June. Among Redditors,...

Africa must tackle cybersecurity or suffer dire consequences

Kathy Gibson reports - Africa needs a comprehensive agenda to deal with its critically low level of cyber resilience and secure its leap into the digital economy. This is the main message from a Kearney white paper, "Cybersecurity in Africa: A Call to Action", which...

In midst of the crisis, agility ramps up

Kathy Gibson reports from the virtual Tech Show with T-Systems - The economic impacts of the current pandemic are unprecedented – but this has driven a dramatic increase in agility. Adel Al-Saleh, CEO of T-Systems, points out that his company was no different,...

Made in SA: blockchain brought into Covid-19 fight

The Delta, a corporate venture builder, has partnered with academics and research groups from the University of Cape Town to develop and deploy a mobile application that aims to stop the spread and transmission of the Covid-19 virus in South Africa. The application,...

Tips to pull your organisation through the pandemic

Kathy Gibson reports on the Dell Technologies Harness your Digital Future Virtual Summit - The decisions you take in times of crisis, like the current pandemic, will determine whether your organisation will be successful in the future or not. Santhosh Rao, senior...

What path will global economic recovery take?

With most of the world still in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, research group IHS Markit has turned its attention to the possible recovery path. Looking past the horrific second-quarter drop in real GDP, and a deeper recession in 2020 than in 2008–09, the company...

Audit and risk leaders distracted by Covid-19

A recent Gartner survey of more than 900 audit and risk leaders has revealed that most of their current focus is on assessing the impact of coronavirus on organisational operations and controls, as well as revising and executing the company audit plan. Just 4% of...

Corporate users prime target for cybercriminals

In 2019, 773 943 users of Kaspersky solutions globally were attacked by banking Trojans – with a third of them (35,1%) in the corporate sector. African countries were affected too: almost every hundredth user (varying from 0,9% to 1%) in South Africa, Ethiopia,...

Expect Covid-19 SMSs, but beware of fraudsters

South Africa’s Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) advises mobile users that they should expect to receive educational SMS (short message service) text messages to do with the current Covid-19 emergency. “Aside from expecting these messages...

Double extortion comes to the fore

Researchers at Check Point see a rising trend in a new ransomware tactic: “double extortion”. This tactic sees threat actors add an additional stage to a ransomware attack: prior to encrypting a victim’s database, hackers will extract large quantities of sensitive...

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