Consumers change the way they shop

A new IBM study of 26 000 global consumers released yesterday at the 2013 National Retail Federation convention found they are diversifying the way they shop for and acquire goods, becoming increasingly open to buying both online and in-store depending on their needs...

Modest growth for microprocessors

Worldwide revenues for microprocessors designed for mobile PCs, desktop PCs, and PC servers will grow 1,6% to $40,7-billion in 2013 according to a new forecast report from International Data Corporation (IDC). The IDC report, Worldwide PC Microprocessor 2012-2016...

Tellumat warns of DoC ruling repercussions

Local contract manufacturing, communications and defence group Tellumat has raised concerns over the recent finding of the South Gauteng high court for e.tv and against the Department of Communications (DoC). The free-to-air channel successfully argued that the DoC...

Tech potential not realised

Organisations realise on average only 43% of technology’s business potential, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs. That number has to grow for IT to remain relevant in an increasingly digital world. The worldwide survey was...

Gauteng Innovation winners announced

eGov Connect has been named as the winner of the Gauteng Innovation Competition. eGov Connect pulls communication between citizens and government, as well as fault reporting and social media into a unified user experience to enable easy interaction with public...

Tablet sales pull ahead of notebooks

It is expected that more than 240-million tablet PCs will be shipped during 2013, effortlessly surpassing the 207-million notebook PCs projected to ship during the year. This is according to Christopher Riley, MD of The Notebook Company. “We are also witnessing this...