Access management key to secure data

There’s a quip in the IT industry: who is driving digital transformation in your company: the CEO, the CIO or Covid? And, of course, the response is generally Covid. While Covid has precipitated organisations along an accelerated digitalisation path, the very speed...

Plummeting mobile data fires up gaming

The cost of mobile data in South Africa is in welcome decline and anecdotal evidence suggests mobile gaming is experiencing unprecedented growth. That’s according to local gaming leader Ekasi Esports which says the fact that South Africa climbed from 148th to 136th...

What kids were looking for in 2020-2021

A Kaspersky Safe Kids study has revealed what children were interested in during 2020 – 2021. Over the past year, their interest has grown in the categories of ‘software, audio and video’ and ‘e-commerce’, while ‘Internet communication media’ and ‘computer...

Gaming still lacks in diversity

The gaming market lags behind in diverse representation, both in the player base and in the games themselves, with women, people of colour, the LGBTQIA+ community and those with disabilities often overlooked. This is among the findings in a report from Intel and...

Global decline for server sales

The worldwide server market revenue declined 2,5% year over year to $23,6-billion during the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. Worldwide server shipments surpassed 3,2-million...

Consumers not impressed with big brand mobile telcos

In a year dominated by Covid-19, lockdowns and work-from-home arrangements where mobile data and connectivity is critical, South Africa’s mobile telco providers have struggled to rise to the challenge of keeping customers with higher expectations satisfied. This is...

Business confidence down but not out

After surging by 15 points to 50 in the second quarter, the RMB/BER Business Confidence index (BCI) retreated to 43 in the third quarter. The index is now back in net negative terrain, where the number of respondents unsatisfied with prevailing business conditions...