Local Android devices make Google Play list

Mecer, one of South Africa’s best-selling desktop PC brands, has announced that three models of its Android tablets are now officially listed on the Google Play supported devices list. The models are the Mecer 101P51C, 800P31C, and TEI11011 – from the Mecer Xpress...

Tablets emerge as only workplace device

A large and increasing share of tablets deployed across UK, French, and German companies are the only devices that employees are equipped with to perform their business activities, according to an International Data Corporation (IDC) study on tablets in enterprises....

IoT devices to reach trillions by 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the biggest technology buzzwords at the moment, alongside machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and bring your own device (BYOD). IoT will increasingly come to the fore during the rest of 2015, and by the end of the decade it...

Shipments of small storage devices decline

Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that 6,7-million personal and entry-level storage devices shipped in EMEA in the first quarter of 2015, a decline of 8,8% from a year ago. IDC’s Worldwide Personal and Entry-Level Storage Tracker also...

Cellular-embedded devices set to surge

More than 112-million non-smartphone connected devices (mobile PCs, tablets and mobile hotspot devices) will be sold worldwide in 2015, up 5,6% from last year, as demand for ubiquitous Internet access for mobile, social and information drives greater adoption,...