Google Search trends show that interest in "artificial intelligence" reached a record in 2022 in South Africa and across the world and is peaking again in January 2023, with top searches including "ai generator" (Number 3), "ai art" (4), "what is ai" (5), and "google...

Enterprise spend on network security technologies - including email security, firewall, security service edge (SSE), secure Web gateway (SWG), Web application firewall (WAF), and application delivery controller (ADC) products - has been on the rebound after the dismal...

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London – E-learning is a very important subject, whose time is now – but it won’t happen if we don’t overcome some very real challenges Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, vice-chancellor of University of Fort Hare, points out...

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London - South Africa is still lagging behind as far as connectivity is concerned – but the challenges can be viewed as an opportunity. This is the word from Tebogo Leshope, chief operations officer at Sentech, who says...

IBM has announced the expansion of its quantum computing efforts to Africa in a new collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in South Africa. Wits University is the first African partner on the IBM Q Network and will be the gateway for...

Africa's smartphone market saw a 7,1% decline in shipments quarter on quarter (QoQ) in Q1 2019 to total 21,5-million units, according to the latest insights from IDC. The company's recently published Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows the continent's two biggest...

Interest in blockchain continues to be high, but there is still a significant gap between the hype and market reality. Only 11% of CIOs indicate they have deployed or are in short-term planning with blockchain, according to the Gartner 2019 CIO Agenda Survey of more...

AlphaCode Incubate is inviting start-ups with game-changing business ideas in financial services to become part of AlphaCode. Eight businesses will each qualify for a R2-million package. AlphaCode is Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI) incubation, acceleration and...

Technology has transformed how we live our lives, but it has come at more than just a financial cost for many of us. A new global Kaspersky survey has found that more than a third (35%) of over 55s would struggle with daily technology challenges if it wasn't for...

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, declined 13,4% year on year in Q1 2019, according to the latest insights from IDC. The global technology research and...