STI still closed to SA women

  The numbers of women in the science, technology and innovation fields (STI) are alarmingly low in the world’s leading economies – and are actually on the decline in many, including the US. For South Africa, results show that women have more opportunities...

Change worries African leaders

African business leaders are more concerned with losing their competitive edge to their peers than leaders in the rest of the world.  When questioned about the impacts of technology-led change, global business leaders are positive about the effects on creativity and...

Inexorable slide in PC volumes

Despite intense industry efforts to overcome market inertia, 2012 nonetheless ended on a sour note with global PC shipment volume shrinking 3,7% on the year.  With limited initial traction from Windows 8 in the holiday season, and continued pressure from tablets, IDC...

Smartphone sales set to lead in 2013

More smartphones are forecast to be shipped globally than feature phones in 2013 – the first such occurrence in the mobile phone market on an annual basis.  According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors...

Africa-wide cloud service to debut

Pamoja, the cloud services business unit of Seacom, is poised to take advantage of the evolving local cloud services market, characterised by the rise of telcos and ISPs over traditional IT service providers. The company, established in 2011 by Seacom founder Brian...

Hackers ahead in cyber arms race

As the arms race between attackers and IT professionals unfolded in 2012, it has become clear that many of the most serious threats stayed hidden from network administrators. These threats come from ever-changing techniques deployed by criminal hackers in addition to...