After a successful launch year, the Aspiring Innovators Programme will once again take place at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Africa 2016. It will highlight interesting African startup technology companies who have something... FULL STORY >

The retail industry is experiencing a shift – the customers are switching between online and physical store contacts as they see fit on their journey towards a purchase. With an increasing number of customer... FULL STORY >

As expected by many forecasters, PC shipments fell in Q4 2015. The margin varied between 8% and 10%. That said, the IDC anticipates Windows 10 to push sales in 2016. FULL STORY >

Continued demand for affordable smartphones in emerging markets drove worldwide sales of smartphones in the third quarter of 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. Global sales of smartphones to end users totalled 353 million units, a 15.5%... FULL STORY >

Mimecast has been positioned by leading independent industry analyst firm Gartner in the ‘Leaders’ section of the October 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving. FULL STORY >

Leading businesses must shift to platform thinking in terms of their business models, delivery mechanisms, talent and leadership, in order to survive and thrive, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc FULL STORY >

Businesses will have to make the move to digital or face becoming obsolete. These are the stark words coming from ICT research company, Gartner at its yearly Symposium ITxpo, currently underway at the Cape Town Convention Centre. FULL STORY >

Gartner, Inc. today said organisations must invest in three risk disciplines to increase trust and resilience FULL STORY >

IT spending in South Africa is forecast to reach $26.6 billion in 2016, an increase of 5.1 percent from 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. FULL STORY >

As more businesses across different industries become heavily digitally enabled, companies need to develop a digital business strategy that require changing business processes as well as underlying technologies FULL STORY >

Innovations in information and communication technology (ICT) are dramatically changing the way African governments and businesses operate. FULL STORY >

The hype surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) in the home is growing rapidly, according to Gartner, Inc., as the battle for the IoT gateway in the connected home gets underway. FULL STORY >

Global mobile data traffic is set to reach 52 million terabytes (TB) in 2015, an increase of 59 per cent from 2014, according to Gartner, Inc. FULL STORY >

Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total $3.5 trillion in 2015, a 5.5 percent decline from 2014, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. FULL STORY >

The annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from September 28 to 30 will examine the need for companies to evolve into a digital business and remain competitive. FULL STORY >