MultiChoice is now offering its customers in South Africa access to affordable medical and security services following the recent acquisition of on-demand emergency response app Namola. Namola enables users to summon the nearest vetted private or public security and...

Worldwide shipments of Augmented Reality (AR) headsets are forecast to decline 8,7% year over year to nearly 260 000 units by the end of 2022, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset...

As viewers continue to shift to viewing television content on an on-demand basis, TV and video consumption is changing across the leading five European markets: UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Linear TV viewing time declined, year over year, across all five...

Sales of printer hardware through distributors in Western Europe (WE) during Q2 2018 were up by 3% year-on-year - the only positive year-on-year performance for imaging products in the past year, according to the latest distribution data published by context....

Moya Messenger is a new mobile messaging app that allows users to communicate without incurring data costs. The app, developed in South Africa by biNu, provides #datafree text messaging that works even when a mobile user has no airtime or data balance on their...

Netstar is partnering with SigFox operator SqwidNet, moving beyond traditional vehicle tracking by adding cost-effective new telematics devices with a Sigfox communication module that enhances the existing radio frequency (RF) with Internet of Things (IoT) technology....

Conventional wisdom dictates that an increase in cybersecurity threats requires ever-larger IT security teams. Gartner fellow and research vice president Tom Scholtz says it's time to think differently. Speaking ahead of his track on security and risk at the Gartner...

Samsung has launched its Galaxy Note9, the Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Home and a new partnership with Spotify. Avi Greengart, research director: consumer platforms and devices at data and analytics company GlobalData, offers the following analysis of the announcements:...

A massive 86% of e-commerce sites using the Magento platform are missing critical security patches, according a survey by security consultancy Foregenix, which also identified a growing global trend for brute force attacks in the first half of the year. The study,...

Travis Fimmel, best known for his lead role as Ragnar Lodbrok on four seasons of the History Channel's popular series Vikings, will be attending Comic Con Africa in September. Fimmel was most recently seen in a supporting role in the A24 film Lean On Pete, opposite...