Interest in HP assets grows

HP is said to have received a number of enquiries to buy its troubled Autonomy and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) businesses, but CEO Meg Whitman has denied that the company will offload them. Reports in the international media indicate that a number of parties have...

Back-to-school PC scams

In the market for some new technology as school-going or student children enter a new school year? Users must make sure they are not inadvertently buying illegal software with their beautiful new computers or laptops. That’s the warning from Microsoft South Africa’s...

Xerox sponsors Africa Print Expo

Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), the authorised Xerox distributor in 26 sub-Saharan Africa countries and a division of Bytes Technology Group, recently confirmed its continued support for the Africa Print Expo by signing Xerox as a platinum sponsor for 2013.  “This is...

Curiosity ready to drill on Mars

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers’ approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be...

Help at hand for carbon compliance

One of the major challenges that South African businesses are set to face in 2013 is the whole issue of climate change and sustainability – because this year, local organisations will be obliged to respond to these issues. Much has been spoken and written about...

DoC meets with broadcasters

The Department of Communications (DoC) has met with the SABC, etv and other free-to-air broadcasters to consider the implications of implementing the South Gauteng High Court decision to grant broadcasters the right to control conditional access in state-subsidised...