Broadband trial a success, says Telkom

Telkom reports that its high-speed broadband trial has been successful.  The pilot started in October 2012 and has given participating Internet customers access to speeds of up to 20Mbps and up to 40Mbps. “The pilot has seen participating customers experience...

Phones, tablets lead in mobility

It is clear that smartphones and tablets are driving mobility growth, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The company’s Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device trader shows that vendors shipped 367,7-million desktop PCs, portable PCs, tablets and...

Humanitarian groups move to the cloud

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRS) has expanded on a global enterprise agreement with a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to offer Microsoft Office 365 and other products as the standard communications and collaboration...

Shaky start for notebook market

The world’s leading notebook PC original design manufacturers (ODMs) will endure a bleak first quarter and slow first half in 2013, before ultrathin PC sales help revive the market later in the year, according to an IHS iSuppli PC Dynamics Market Brief from...

Polygraphs mooted to pre-empt crime

Rooting out “career criminals” is taking on a whole new meaning, as more and more businesses resort to polygraph testing to get to the bottom of workplace crime, as well as to identify would-be trouble makers before they are even hired.  Willem Marshall, a...