The decline in smartphone and PC shipments in 2022 took its toll on overall shipments for WiFi-enabled products, causing them to fall for the first time ever in decades-long history. After shipments grew 8,6% in 2021 fueled by pandemic-driven market changes, they fell...

If the current loadshedding scenario in South Africa worsens, there are going to be immense challenges facing those that rely on networks, fibre and LTE. This is the stark warning from Theo van Zyl, head of Wireless at Vox, who says: “Most of the operators providing...

Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth from next-generation 5G services will be reliant on the availability of a specific strand of radio frequencies, known as 'millimetre wave' frequencies, which are set to be identified for use by mobile operators at WRC-19. However,...

South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) says local ICT service providers that don't support the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) are potentially threatening the country's participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). IPv4...

Humans still present the biggest cybersecurity risk, according to Duo Security founder Dug Song, formerly a member of the elite hacker group w00w00. Song co-founded Duo Security in 2010 and the company was bought by Cisco for $2,35-billion in 2018. He spoke to...

The city of Johanneburg says its systems are slowing coming back up following last week's ransomware attacks - and it has no intention of paying the 4-bitcoin ransom demanded. Starting on Thursday 24 October, city employees attempting to log on to their computers were...

South Africa's mobile content and applications industry is steadily winning the war against fraudsters attempting to target local cellular users with unauthorised micro-billing. This was communicated to an assembled gathering of the world's leading players in direct...

Gartner has identified re-globalisation, economic slowdown and "digital dithering" as the top three concerns for CEOs in 2019. CIOs need to understand these concerns and address them in their strategic planning over the next 12 to 18 months, says Kristian Steenstrup,...

Recent torrential rains have led to Cape Town's dams reaching 82,9%, up by 3,3% from the previous week. Although this was a welcome boost, rainfall this winter was still below average. Collective water consumption for the past week has decreased to 625-million...

Climate change has emerged as the most frequently mentioned theme among the world's leading CEOs on Twitter, with 200% growth in conversations from the second quarter (Q2) to third quarter (Q3) of 2019. An analysis of GlobalData's CEO Influencer platform, which...