Kathy Gibson reports - The deployment and adoption of broadband is critical to economic and social development. This is the word from Mathhew Reed, chief analyst: service provider at Omdia, who points to the World Bank's estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in...

Kathy Gibson reports - Although broadband adoption in Africa is increasing quickly, the continent is still some way off from achieving many of its connectivity goals. Martin Creaner, director-general of the World Broadband Association, says there is general consensus...

The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 37,3% in 2019 to total $44,5-billion, up from $32,4-billion in 2018, according to Gartner. Amazon retained the number one position in the IaaS market in 2019, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and...

CIOs have increased their organisational credibility during the Covid-19 pandemic, but there are more complex challenges that CIOs must tackle during the recovery to sustain their elevated value, according to Gartner. A Gartner CIO Research Circle (a Gartner managed...

In recognition of the United Nations' International Youth Day this week, a new-look SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) initiative officially kicks off across the continent with a number of changes and developments aimed at empowering Africa's youth with digital skills...

After a five-month absence, Emotet has surged back to first place in Check Point Software Technologies' Global Threat Index for July 2020, impacting 5% of organisations globally. Since February 2020, Emotet's activities - primarily sending waves of malspam campaigns -...

The first release of a new global research report from Intel and Lenovo finds that technology will play an integral role in achieving diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workplace of the future. With the power to bridge accessibility gaps, connect people who are...

Almost a third (30%) of cyberattacks investigated by the Kaspersky Global Emergency Response team in 2019 involved legitimate remote management and administration tools. As a result, attackers can remain undetected for a longer period of time. For instance, continuous...

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market declined by 10,4% in unit terms in 1Q20 compared with the same period a year ago to give a market size of 3,7-million units, but market values...

According to the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 87,8-million smartphones were shipped in China during the second quarter of 2020, down 10,3% year-on-year. Evidently, consumer sentiment was a challenge but this was still a narrower figure compared to the first...