Mobile payments led the way this Black Friday, with 70% of total transactions driving sales, versus 30% on desktop, according to leading payment gateway PayFast. The average basket size was R1 255, slightly higher than 2021, which recorded an average of R1 208 per...

The cost savings from smart grid deployments will exceed $125-billion globally in 2027, increasing from just over $33-billion in 2022. This 279% growth will be driven by rising energy prices, with smart grid technologies playing a critical role in increasing network...

At CES 2019, Intel provided details on its upcoming mobile PC platform with the first volume of the company's 10nm processor, code-named "Ice Lake". Built on Intel's new Sunny Cove CPU microarchitecture, Ice Lake is expected to deliver a new level of technology...

The integrated systems market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) showed significant growth in 3Q18, reporting $873-million in user value, with year-on-year growth of 20,1%, according to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Quarterly Converged...

Dell has launched the Latitude 7400 2-in-1, its new flagship, claiming that it's the world's smallest commercial 14-inch 2-in-1. The Latitude 7400 2-in-1 uses Dell's new Express Sign-in to detect the user's presence, wake the system in about one second, and scan for...

The Wireless Application Service Providers' Association of South Africa (Waspa) has called in the big guns to help the local mobile industry win its battle against fraudsters. Fraudulent attacks on local mobile network operators and systems of mobile service providers...

The use of virtual assistants (VAs) in the workplace is growing. By 2021, Gartner predicts that 25% of digital workers will use a virtual employee assistant (VEA) on a daily basis. This will be up from less than 2% in 2019. The contact centre was the pilot and testing...

The Ministry of Finance has issued a warning to the public about scams which purport to be communication from the ministry. In the latest of these scams, a person purporting to be the Deputy Minister of Finance has been asking people on Facebook for money in return...

Gamer lifestyle brand Razer has announced Razer HyperSense, an ecosystem of interconnected haptic-powered gaming devices designed to deliver a cohesive and high-fidelity haptics experience for superior gaming immersion. Razer Co-Founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan says: "We...

IBM inventors received a record 9 100 patents in 2018, marking the company's 26th consecutive year of US patent leadership. "IBM is committed to leading the way on the technologies that change the way the world works - and solving problems many people have not even...