How the resellers voted

Enterprise resellers have voted for their favourite vendors and distributors, with HP dominating the vendor selection and AxizWorkgroup walking off with the Distributor of the Year award. HP jostled with Lenovo, Dell and Samsung in the End User Computing category of...

Lenovo to resurrect Motorola brand

For generations, the Motorola brand has been synonymous with quality IT – from microchips through to cell phones – especially in South Africa. And, while it has largely disappeared since the company was gobbled up by Google, its subsequent acquisition by Lenovo is set...

SA heads for financial inclusion

South Africa is making significant headway in furthering financial inclusion, according to a new MasterCard report entitled A Progressive Approach to Financial Inclusion. The report explores the progress that 30 developed and developing countries have made in enabling...

Energy detected beyond Milky Way

Wits scientists are part of a multinational team of astronomers working on the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) telescopes that have again demonstrated its excellent capabilities in searching for high-energy gamma rays. In the latest discovery, HESS found three...

Kenya, Oracle partner on ICT

The Information Communication Technology Authority (ITCA) in Kenya has signed a memorandum of understanding with Oracle to raise the level of technical understanding and IT skills required to underpin the development of e-government services in the country. Based on...

Windows 10 to be free upgrade

Microsoft will make Windows 10 available as a free upgrade to customers who upgrade in the first year that the upcoming operating system is available. This will apply to users who run Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. Microsoft yesterday unveiled its new...