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...

Remittances key in consumers’ financial planning

As global populations navigate macroeconomic headwinds, consumers expect remittances to play an even stronger role in their current and future financial planning. According to Western Union's inaugural Global Money Transfer Index, 64% of global money transfer...

NFC-ready POS terminals continue strong momentum

The market for NFC-ready POS terminals continued to show strong momentum in 2021 with annual shipments reaching an estimated 75,3-million units worldwide, according to new research from Berg Insight. The attach rate for NFC was highest in EU27+3 and North America,...

inDriver goes live in more SA cities

Ride hailing app inDriver has gone live in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, with more than 1 000 new drivers already registered in each city. The set-your-own-price taxi app launched successfully in Cape Town and Johannesburg earlier this year, having entered the...

Large trades drive bitcoin sales

More than 65% of the daily trading volume on South Africa's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges is made up of trades above 0,5 bitcoin (BTC) - or about R100 000. More than 75% of the volume is above 0,25BTC - around R50 000. This is according to data gathered by...

September more positive for vehicle sales

According to results released by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa), September sales slid only 0,9% year-on-year to 49 191 units, the biggest sales month of the year so far. "On the upside, there were 3,707 units more volume...

WiFi 6 ready for mass deployment

A massive 90% of respondents in a cross-industry survey conducted by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) are already planning to deploy WiFi 6. The respondents include personnel from a global cross-section of over 200 telecommunications service providers, technology...

Energy sector under cyberthreat pressure

Kaspersky solutions were triggered on almost half of industrial control system (ICS) computers in the energy sector globally in the first six months of 2019. The top three cyberthreats were worms, spyware, and cryptocurrency miners - together, they combined to make...

Casbaneiro steals cryptocurrency in Latin America

ESET is unravelling the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of the Latin American banking trojans, and in the process discovered the Casbaneiro family. As part of the research project that identified the Amavado malware family, the ESET research team also found...

Aggressively reskill now to avoid jobs bloodbath

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other advancements will automate jobs across numerous industries, threatening a spike of retrenchments in a country already suffering an unemployment rate of 29%. The answer is to assess the aptitude of the...

SA start-up secures dynamic QR code patent

Cape Town-based 4ORT has launched the world's first "fraud free" dynamic QR (Quick Response) code. A globally-patented algorithm ensures mobile users' unique identities are securely stored within the code making duplication by fraudsters virtually impossible....

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