Microsoft aims to create future cities

South Africa’s major cities are home to more than two-thirds of the country’s population, and generate more than 60% of the country’s GDP – but they are facing a range of complex challenges, fuelled largely by a massive migration to urban areas. Although cities host...

Partnership aims to halt online child abuse

Specialist security distributor African Risk Mitigation (ARM) has partnered with NetClean in the fight against the proliferation of child sexual abuse images. Together, the two companies will be assisting ISPs, companies, and law enforcement across the African...

AxizWorkgroup takes on Red Hat distribution

AxizWorkgroup has added Red Hat to its list of IT vendors. Red Hat is a provider of open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, virtualisation, storage, Linux, and middleware technologies. The company’s core...

Keeping phones, Internet running in the rain

Unfavourable weather conditions in the form of heavy rains and electrical storm activity are expected across South Africa during the annual rainy season. Telkom says it is gearing up to minimise network related faults  caused by the adverse weather conditions and the...

Phone out of favour for Gen Y

For Generation Y – individuals born between 1980 and 2000 – the phone is now the third choice of engagement after electronic messaging and smartphone applications. New contact centre research also shows that the preference gaps for Generation X...

Ricoh SA set to double headcount

By Mark Davison at Ricoh’s EMEA Strategy Session, London – By “eating its own dog food” when it comes to cloud computing, Ricoh South Africa could nearly double the headcount in its shared services division by this time next year from 160 people to 300. Jacques van...