Turkey seeks SA electronics partners

A delegation from Turkey’s rapidly-growing electronics sector will travel to South Africa this month on a trade mission aimed at cultivating partnerships with South African importers, distributors, agents, retailers and wholesalers. Under the auspices of the Istanbul...

Lexmark acquires PACSgear

Lexmark International has acquired PACSgear, a provider of connectivity solutions for healthcare providers to capture, manage and share medical images and related documents and integrate them with existing picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and...

Industry slams DBE’s Delphi decision

The IT industry is up in arms this morning over a decision by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to scrap the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in schools, and to drop Java in favour of Delphi as the programming language of choice. Circular S9 of 2013...

HP turnaround progress detailed

HP’s turnaround strategy is on track, according to president and CEO Meg Whitman, giving delegates to HP’s 2013 Securities Analyst Meeting an update on the company’s progress executing against its turnaround plan and future strategy. Whitman reviewed the...

September uptick for global PC shipments

Worldwide PC shipments totalled 81,6-million units in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13). In year-on-year terms, the market contracted -7,6%, ahead of a projected decline of -9,5% for the quarter, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...

Mxit retains its users’ loyalty

South Africa’s home-grown instant messaging service, Mxit, may have been supplanted by Facebook as the country’s biggest social network, but it has succeeded in maintaining the loyalty of its user base. This emerged from the final analysis of the SA Social Media...