CEO puts own blood on the line

The Notebook Company has recently added consumables to its retail offerings – and its CEO has made a rather unusual commitment to low prices: he says he’ll donate a unit of blood for every case where the company doesn’t save customers money.  Christopher Riley, CEO of...

YouTube turns eight this week

YouTube, the world’s largest video sharing platform, celebrates its eighth birthday this week. YouTube, which was acquired by Google in 2006, has become the go-to destination to find video content on almost every subject possible – from the latest viral “Harlem...

IBM takes Cobol to the cloud

IBM has announced software to help organisations extend business applications running on System z mainframes to Web, cloud and mobile environments.  The software’s performance improvements will enable companies to significantly reduce operating costs while...

Windows 8 may not be enterprise standard

With Windows XP’s end-of-life date of 8 April 2014 rapidly approaching, most IT shops are still too focussed on migrating to Windows 7 to bother with Windows 8 anytime soon, if at all.  To be reasonably considered an enterprise standard, approximately half of...

Pinnacle buys Modrac, Precision ICT

Pinnacle Holdings has acquired Precision ICT and Modrac from Craig Luck with effect from 1 June 2013, subject to the completion of a due diligence review. Precision ICT is an engineering company focused on the design, manufacture and assembly of electronic enclosures...

New SUSE distributor for SA

Enterprise Linux solutions provider SUSE South Africa has appointed Johannesburg-based Linux Warehouse, which also services Africa markets, as a formally accredited distributor for SUSE.  Linux Warehouse managing director Jan-Jan van der Vyver believes the South...