European spending on big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions is forecast to reach $50-billion this year, an increase of 7% over 2020, according to a new update to the Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC)....

New film premieres have always boosted the activity of cybercriminals, as many film fans are interested in being the first to watch the latest movie and can become inattentive to the sources they use to view it. The new James Bond film "No Time to Die", Daniel Craig's...

Every one of South Africa's over 80-million active cellphone numbers is considered personal information. This is according to the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPI) and perhaps explains why South Africa's wireless application service providers (WASPs)...

5G commercial services will launch in 2020 and there will be 24-million 5G subscriptions worldwide at the end of 2021 for mobile and fixed broadband services. This I according to Ovum's inaugural 5G Subscription Forecasts. They show that North America and Asia will...

While researching the dangerous banking trojan, Lurk, Kaspersky Lab security experts have found that criminals behind this malware used legitimate software for infection purposes. While unsuspecting users were installing legitimate remote access software from a...

Why are there so few women in the IT sector? And does it matter? These are among the questions posed by Ulandi Exner, president of the Institute of IT Professionals of South Africa (IITPSA), who points out that just 20% of the people in the IT sector are women. But is...

Microsoft South Africa has announced a software donation to the value of nearly R20-million to the Maharishi Institute, which provides students with access to financial assistance and other support, to complete a tertiary degree via distance education, as well as the...

iWeek XV, the fifteenth annual Internet industry conference, takes place in Johannesburg from 19-23 September. The conference brings together South African Internet industry professionals and offers workshops and training opportunities for companies active in the...

Emirates has launched the world's first interactive amenity kit in economy class, using augmented reality (AR) technology to unlock immersive content on mobile devices. The kit bags come in six designs inspired by six regions in Emirates' global network - Australasia,...

The ICT sector is critical for the growth of the African economy and it's going to require collective efforts from both governments and the private sector to improve connectivity and ensuring cost effective quality connectivity to all. This was the message from...