PC market stabilises in EMEA

PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) reached 21,8-million units in the first quarter of 2014, which resulted in a decline of 1,1% in comparison with the same quarter last year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The EMEA market...

Application optimisation can halve costs

Optimising application development and maintenance (ADM) can cut costs by more than 50%, according to research by Gartner. Sourcing managers can develop and implement sourcing strategies, metrics and processes to help CIOs cut costs in half by eliminating legacy...

Massive bill of materials for Samsung’s S5

The latest member of Samsung’s popular line of Galaxy smartphones ups the ante on features – and on cost – with the S5’s discrete-intensive design yielding a high bill of materials (BOM). The Samsung Galaxy S5 with 32Gb of NAND flash memory carries a BOM...

Mobile Touch winners announced

Clickatell has announced the winners of the second Annual Mobile Touch Awards, celebrating companies that have used mobile SMS in creative and innovative ways to improve the lives of those around them. The winners and finalists come from a variety of industries and...

Africa contributes to Internet governance

Remote hubs in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos and Tunis will feed Africa’s contributions in realtime to the NETmundial global multi-stakeholder meeting on the future of Internet governance, which will be held in São Paulo on 23 and 24 April 2014. To date, a total...