Absa extends WiFi to Maponya Mall

Absa has extended its free Wi-Fi service to its Maponya Mall branch, making the bank the first financial institution at one of Gauteng’s major township shopping centres to offer up to 100Mb of free WiFi per day to all shoppers. “The service is available for use on any...

VMware revenue rockets in Q3

VMware has announced that revenues for the third quarter of 2014 were $1,52-billion, an increase of 18% from the third quarter of 2013. Operating income for the third quarter was $242-million, a decrease of 16% from the third quarter of 2013, reflecting the impact of...

Record third quarter for EMC

EMC has reported third-quarter 2014 financial results, including record third-quarter consolidated revenue of $6-billion, an increase of 9% year over year. GAAP net income attributable to EMC was $587-million. GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was...

Crowdsourcing to understand DNA

What do the DNA in Australian seaweed, Amazon River water, tropical plants, and forest soil all have in common? Lots, say scientists. And understanding the genetic similarities of disparate life forms could enable researchers to produce compounds for new medicines,...

Wearable sensors set for seven-fold increase

Driven by rising demand for fitness and health monitoring features as well as by improved user interfaces, shipments of sensors used in wearable electronic devices will rise by a factor of seven from 2013 through 2019. According to HIS Technology, the worldwide market...

Massive EMEA growth for integrated infrastructure

The integrated infrastructure and platforms market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) recorded vendor revenue of $649-million in 2Q14, up 51% over the same period a year ago. The market generated nearly 225 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments during...