The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose for a third month to reach 53.1 index points in December 2022, slightly up from 52.6 in November. While the headline number is positive, the underlying picture is more mixed. Most concerning was the...

Kaspersky experts have identified new functionalities within the Janicab malware, which is being used by a mercenary APT group DeathStalker to infiltrate specific organisations within a number of industries. The new variant has been spotted across European and Middle...

Although the market for integration platform as a service (iPaaS) shows strong growth, the first signs of market consolidation are starting to emerge. Gartner predicts that by 2023, up to two-thirds of existing iPaaS vendors will merge, be acquired or exit the market....

IT spending in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) market is projected to reach $160-billion in 2019, a 1,8% increase from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. "In 2019, businesses in MENA are set to increase their IT spending in all segments except...

The global TV market grew 2,9% in 2018, reaching 221-million units, due to a sales surge in the first half of the year as many consumers upgraded their TVs to watch the Football World Cup. Shipments of richly featured TV sets continued to grow. In fact in the fourth...

The Lufthansa Group and Amadeus have announced an agreement to renew their longstanding technology partnership. Through the deal, Amadeus' Altéa Passenger Service System (PSS) will continue to provide Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Swiss...

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased revenues 8,9% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18) and 4,3% for the full year, according to results published in the International Data...

University of Cape Town (UCT) academic Dr Dyllon Randall has become the first African recipient of the prestigious global Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Warner Prize. The prize is awarded biennially to people who show "exceptional promise" in sustainable...

Unit sales of business-targeted monitors in January 2019 by Western Europe's IT distributors grew by +19% year-on-year as increased specifications and lower average selling prices (ASP) boosted demand, according to the latest data published by Context....

Altron has migrated its human resource information systems and payroll to Microsoft Azure delivered from Microsoft’s new cloud regions in South Africa, with the aim of saving costs, improving efficiencies, better data security and increased response time. Mteto Nyati,...