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Data centre sales drive Ethernet switch growth
The worldwide Ethernet switch market recorded $14,7-billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2025 (3Q25), a 35,2% year-over-year (YoY) increase, fueled by strong growth in the data centre portion of the market as hyperscalers and cloud service providers race to...
MacOS infostealer campaign abuses ChatGPT’s chat-sharing feature
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2026 will be year agentic AI comes of age
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AI, geopolitics reshaping the future of global energy markets
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The opportunities lurking within quantum technologies
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HPE challenges Huawei in campus switch market
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Africa has aviation challenges, but potential is immense
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Leadership turnover harming supply chain performance
More than half (54%) of supply chain leaders report that leadership turnover has moderately to completely disrupted their function’s ability to operate over the past three years, according to a new survey from Gartner. This disruption - combined with the impact of...
WLAN growth stunted by China slowdown
A sharp contraction in China spending kept worldwide Wireless LAN (WLAN) growth from hitting double-digits in 3Q 2025, according to the latest report from Dell’Oro Group. “Cisco was late to the Wi-Fi 7 party,” says Siân Morgan, research director at Dell’Oro Group....
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The 12 scams of Christmas
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Vertiv completes PurgeRite acquisition
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Built by hackers, cybersecurity academy aims to close the skills gap
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Check Point debuts Quantum Firewall Software R82.10
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