Wintel set to lose PC lead

Canalys’ latest forecasts paint a bleak picture of the state of the industry for the majority of PC hardware vendors. Combined shipments of desktops, netbooks and notebooks showed a year-on-year decline of around 10% in the fourth quarter of 2012, as consumers...

Atari files for bankruptcy

 The world’s oldest computing gaming company, Atari, has filed for insolvency. The companies have co-ordinated to request filings for Book 6 procedures in France and Chapter 11 protection in the United States. The company has been informed by its main shareholder and...

FTTP will ease network strain

CipherWave, a niche specialist IT company based in Midrand, is introducing fibre broadband connectivity to the premises (FTTP) with the lowest contentions and prices currently available on the market. The offering is a bold move as it provides high value to business...

IDC looks at the future of the PC

As IDC looks at the future of computing, the advancement of computing no longer starts and ends with the personal computer. Since the first smartphone in 2000, and the introduction of the tablet a decade later, users have witnessed an explosion of mobile form factors...

Facebook Graph Search underwhelms

With the announcement of Facebook’s Graph Search, much speculation abounds as to whether this new search tool will position the social network to go head-to-head with the likes of Google and Yelp.  Forrester’s take? Not likely. In a new blog post,...