A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

Inflation declines in February

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on 24 March that consumer price inflation declined from 3,2% y-o-y in January 2021 to 2,9% y-o-y in February. The latest reading was slightly below expectations (3% y-o-y) and the lowest reading in eight months, according to...

Zoom anxiety and how to deal with it

During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, working from home has taken off, with remote communications taking the place of physical meetings - and this has given rise to a condition that has come to be knows as Zoom anxiety. The widespread adoption of video calling...

Tablet sales slip in 2015

After years of posting successive gains, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market recorded its first ever year-on-year decline in Q1 2015, with shipments to the region declining 5,8% to 3,83-million units. That's according to the latest market insights by...

Oracle results hit by strong US dollar

Oracle has reported that revenues for the last quarter of its 2015 financial year were down 5%, with revenues for the full year essentially unchanged. The company reports that results were significantly impacted by the strengthening of the US dollar compared to...

Telkom consolidates mobile, Internet bundles

Telkom is consolidating Telkom Mobile bundles and All Network bundles into one set of pre-paid options that will provide national coverage for subscribers. The packages, available from today (22 June 2015), will provide consumers the benefit of national network...

E-commerce set to boom in SA

Besides 2014 being a tough year for online businesses, there has been an increase in query volumes for South Africa of 37% - and increases of 49% in Nigeria and 33% in Kenya. This is according to Nicholas Groove, business development manager at ImproWeb, sister...

African governments commit to STEM education

A Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund led by Senegal, Rwanda and Ethiopia will contribute to the World Bank Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET) programme, which seeks to award 10 000 African PhD scholarships over 10...

New context needed for mobile privacy

At least 63% of US smartphone users are concerned about their privacy and security when they access the Internet via their mobile device. This compares with 56%, 64% and 58% of UK, French, and Chinese citizens, respectively, according to new Forrester surveys of more...

Massive decline for thin client sales

The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) thin client market faced a severe contraction in Q1 2015. The shipments declined at -10,2% year-on-year, and resulted in 438 000 units shipped, according to the EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker published by...

Modest growth for backup appliances

Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues grew 6,9% year-over-year totalling $719,3-million in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Appliance Tracker. Total...

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