Chips are up as IoT takes off
The processing, sensing and communications semiconductor device portion of the Internet of Things (IoT) will be a rapidly growing segment of the total semiconductor market, growing 36,2% in 2015, compared with the overall semiconductor market growth of 5,7%, according...Altron’s Venter wins award
Craig Venter, group executive of Altron and CEO of Altech, has been announced as the Continental Winner for the ICT Sector (Africa) in the CEO Communications’ Titans – Building Nations Award for 2014. Venter was recognised for his influence in the information and...Food security system wins SAB award
The SAB Foundation has named local innovation, Bee-Pak, a compact bee farming system, as the R1-million prize winner in its 4th Annual Social Innovation Awards. Bee-Pak is trademarked as the ‘world’s first flat pack composite beehive system’. The innovation has an...Kaspsersky delivers 4Pb of security updates
Kaspersky Lab delivers 60,000 updates a month to all of its protection products worldwide. The total size of these updates is equivalent to four petabytes. That is roughly the same as 1 million movies, or more than 10 million books. If you stacked all those tomes in a...