Demand for small tablets doubles

Demand for small tablets doubles

Booming demand for low-priced 7,x-inch products helped shipments of panels used in media tablets to more than double in the first quarter, according to a new report entitled Tablet PC Touch Panel Shipment Database from information and analytics provider HIS. Global...

Virtualisation in demand in Africa

There is growing demand for new IT infrastructure throughout east and southern Africa. This is according to Brenton Halsted, chief technology officer for infrastructure services company Silicon Sky, who says that many businesses on the continent are taking advantage...

Meeting the demand of the African data boom

Africans like their mobile phones, too. So surely the African continent will simply follow the same telecom development and usage pattern as the rest of the world – perhaps just a little later? Well, not quite, says David King, CEO, Flexenclosure. Africa has...

Electronics demand rises in Q1

Total inventory held by semiconductor suppliers declined significantly in the first quarter as excess stockpiles created during the global economic malaise of 2012 were cleared away, done in anticipation of a resurgence in consumer demand for electronic products...

Demand for leased lines grows

As Internet usage increasingly becomes an integral part of the primary business of a growing number of South African companies, continuing to regard Internet connectivity as a commodity could be a costly mistake. That’s the view of Andre Joubert, GM of MWEB Business,...