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...

OEMs launch 4th Gen Intel Xeon systems

On 10 January 2023, Intel officially launched its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) for data centre customers around the globe. All major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) are now...

Leverage economics, sustainability of cloud in the digital era

Kathy Gibson reports - The move to cloud is recognised as necessary for most organisations, but the journey to cloud is complex and can be challenging. IDC held its Cloud and Datacentre Roadshow in Johannesburg today (15 March 2023) to examine some of the challenges...

South Africans are still keen globetrotters

Even though South African travellers face unfavourable exchange rates, stagnant economic growth and less disposable income, international travel continues unabated. The August 2019 analysis by Cape Town Air Access reveals the top outbound destinations for flights...

Wrist-worn wearables maintain strong growth trajectory

Shipments of wrist-worn wearables, inclusive of smartwatches, basic watches, and wrist bands, reached 34,2-million units, up 28,8% year over year during the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...

August inflation increases to 4,3%

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on 18 September 18 that consumer price inflation increased from 4.0% year-on-year (y-o-y) in July to 4,3% y-o-y in August. This was slightly higher than economists' median expectation of 4,2% y-o-y. Nonetheless, this was the...

Westcon-Comstor expands international footprint into India

Westcon-Comstor, has expanded its global deployment solutions (GDS) capability into India. The new entity opens the door to transactions in one of the world's fastest growing economies and enables multi-national rollouts into the Indian sub-continent region. Active in...

Future pragmatists drive long-term vision

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – Digital society is the key to our future, but as we focus on the detail of how to make digital transformation happen, we often forget the long-term vision. The future is a very difficult thing to talk about, remarks...

API disruption set to accelerate

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town - Thanks to application programming interfaces (APIs), anyone can build the next "killer app" - but there's so much more to come. Paolo Malinverno, vice-president analyst at Gartner, says APIs are set to cause many...

Learn from past failures how not to do AI

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town - One of the best ways to design for the future is to look at the past - and we can learn how to apply artificial intelligence (AI) more effectively by examining high-profile failures. Some of the things we expect AI...

Prepare now for the AI workforce

Kathy Gibson is at Gartner Symposium in Cape Town - Artificial intelligence (AI) will drive new ways of working, and we will see the emergence of a whole new AI-enabled workforce. There will inevitably be job losses as this happens, but the experts tell us that AI...

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