Kenya Ports banks on SAP

The Kenya Ports Authority has experienced phenomenal growth over the last 12 years. Traffic through the port of Mombasa, East and Central Africa’s main maritime gateway, has increased by 7,4% per annum. In 2000, KPA realised traffic of 9,126-million tons moving...

Esquire signs distribution deal with Sharkoon

Esquire Technologies has signed a distribution agreement for the Southern African market with Sharkoon Technologies, the award winning gaming peripherals and PC accessories specialist. Esquire will be distributing a new line of Sharkoon gaming mice, mouse mats,...

Apple raises the desktop bar

Apple has unveiled its new Mac Pro desktop computer, a new design and form factor that could change the way users think about desktop computing. “When we began work on the next Mac Pro, we considered every element that defines a pro computer — graphics, storage,...

World leaders take Twitter seriously

More than three-quarters (77,7%) of world leaders have a Twitter account and two-thirds (68%) have made mutual connections with their peers. This is one of the findings from a Burson-Marsteller study “Twiplomacy”, an annual global study of world leaders on Twitter,...

SA boasts 14m Internet users

The total Internet population in South Africa in 2013 is estimated to be almost 14-million users, or 39% of the adult population. This is according to research by the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) and Echo Consultancy. The figure was derived from the...

Telkom Business takes aim at SMEs

Telkom Business has launched the Convergence SingleRate contract, offering SMEs an out-of-bundle rate of 79c per minute to all networks, all the time. Jan Pieterse, executive at Telkom Business Product House, says the operator offers true convergence through a...