Schneider wins R101m Zambian deal

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric has secured purchase orders totalling R101-million from First Quantum Minerals’ Kansanshi smelter project and the Sentinel Greenfields project in Zambia. The Kansanshi site is located 15km north of the town of Solwezi...

Virtualisation fails data protection

Enterprises are still not experiencing the full benefits that virtualisation brings to data protection, with capabilities, complexity and cost all affecting implementations.  Indeed, in a number of areas enterprises’ data protection capabilities have actually...

Display prices drop on tablet demand

The boom in media tablet demand is causing display providers to flock to the market with more products, inflating the supply base and causing prices to decline, according to an IHS iSuppli LCD Price Tracker report from IHS.  Pricing in January declined for 7-inch,...

Microsoft hit with E561m EU fine

The European Union’s anti-trust regulators have hit Microsoft with a E561-million fine for failing to offer Windows users an alternative to Internet Explorer. This follows a 2009 agreement that Microsoft would give users a choice of alternative browsers – and which it...

$10k for Africa’s top travel app

Visa and South African Tourism’s $10 000 challenge to developers across sub-Saharan Africa to build the continent’s best travel app is now open for entries. First announced at the E-Tourism Summit in Cape Town last year, the Africa App Quest is built on the growing...

Infectious diseases on the agenda

Infectious diseases remain one of the largest causes of preventable death around the world, with Africa as the focus of many of the most pernicious of them.  Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infections in the world, and also has a large presence...