Home appliance market shakeup expected

Key players in the global home appliances market are looking to increase their market share via acquisitions and other moves in order to take advantage of on-going strong expansion in the trade, according to a new report from HIS Technology. Worldwide shipments of...

New WASPA code of conduct

South Africa’s Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) has marked the occasion of the 10th anniversary of its founding by unveiling a vastly simplified code of conduct to better protect the mobile consumer. Formed in 2004 with a remit...

Global server revenues up 2% in Q2

Factory revenue in the worldwide server market increased by 2,5% year-over-year to $12,6-billion in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. Server unit shipments improved 1,2%...

EMEA server shipments finally show growth

In Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), server shipments in the second quarter of 2014 grew for the first time in 11 quarters, by 0,8%, according to Gartner. Server revenue also grew in the second consecutive quarter of 2014 after 10 previous quarters of...

Data cannot work in isolation, says KPMG

The proliferation of connected devices has resulted in the exponential increase of realtime data. But data on its own means very little if proper analytics does not take place. Frank Rizzo, data and analytics leader for KPMG South Africa, discusses the importance of...

Smart card shipments to rise by 2,1bn

Global unit shipments of smart cards are expected to rise by 2,1-billion from 2014 through 2019 – about equal to the combined populations of China, the US, Indonesia and Brazil, according to HIS Technology. Smart card shipments in 2019 will rise to 10,9-billion...