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IS, Synaq deliver mail in the cloud
Internet Solutions (IS) and Synaq have launched a low cost, integrated, cloud mail and archive service. This first locally hosted secure messaging collaboration suite offers e-mail functionality, collaboration and archiving on a single platform. “As South African...
Dark fibre rolls out in Route 21
Route 21 Corporate Park, the R2-billion office park development near Irene, became the first office park to install an open-access dark fibre network three years ago. It has now moved into phase two, which includes the delivery of fibre to every building in the office...
Primary healthcare takes to the road
Samsung Electronics Africa launched its Solar Powered Health Centre model in Cape Town yesterday, marking the start of a large-scale medical initiative on the continent. The mobile centres are built for use in remote rural areas, and intended to eliminate the...
Free music for Africa
Universal Music Group, in partnership with Samsung, as well as African and international music labels and publishers, has launched a pan-African mobile music streaming service called the Kleek. Designed and built specifically for Africa, the Kleek will bring music...
Riverbed announces new product capabilities
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company announced the availability of new product capabilities, developer tools and a supporting community that allow IT professionals to customise and adapt their IT infrastructure to meet the demands of their business...
WhatsApp launches on BlackBerry 10
WhatsApp, the company behind WhatsApp Messenger, and BlackBerry have announced that WhatsApp will bring a native version of its popular mobile messaging service to the BlackBerry 10 platform. BlackBerry 10 provides an ideal platform for social apps such as WhatsApp...
EC rolls out mission-critical HP servers
Hewlett-Packard Belgium has announced that, through the open Call for Tenders - DIGIT/R2/PO/2011/038 - Mainframe data servers III, it has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to supply HP Integrity servers and related offerings to support critical workloads,...
DVT becomes OnTime value-added reseller
Local software developer DVT has been appointed a value-added reseller for Axosoft’s OnTime project management software for Agile and scrum software development. The deal was signed early in February 2013, and makes DVT the first OnTime reseller in Africa. “This is a...
Redington Value named VMware distributor
Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, has been appointed as a VMware distributor in WECA, marking a significant drive by the leader in virtualisation and cloud solutions into the African continent. As a value-added distributor,...
Video calling holds major opportunities
It couldn’t have escaped anyone’s notice that the tablet computer (and mobile devices on the whole) have cemented themselves firmly in the lifestyle artillery of the modern consumer, says Henry McCracken, regional sales director, Africa at Aspect Software. According...
MWEB hosts local Dota 2 server
South Africa’s biggest gaming service provider, MWEB Gaming, has launched local Dota 2 servers into the test build with the Valve Corporation, an American video game development and digital distribution company. MWEB is awaiting confirmation from Valve as to when it...
A new world for employees
Future employees will face a very different work life from today – never tethered to one location and able to share and access knowledge more easily – thanks to the acceleration of consumerisation and the influx of devices and platforms entering the workplace,...
Ericsson to manage Atlantique network
Atlantique Telecom, part of the Etisalat Group, has entered a five year multi-country managed services agreement with Ericsson to manage its entire mobile network, and impacting almost 10-million subscribers. During the past decade, the number of mobile connections...
IS, Synaq deliver mail in the cloud
Internet Solutions (IS) and Synaq have launched a low cost, integrated, cloud mail and archive service. This first locally hosted secure messaging collaboration suite offers e-mail functionality, collaboration and archiving on a single platform. “As South African...
Dark fibre rolls out in Route 21
Route 21 Corporate Park, the R2-billion office park development near Irene, became the first office park to install an open-access dark fibre network three years ago. It has now moved into phase two, which includes the delivery of fibre to every building in the office...
Primary healthcare takes to the road
Samsung Electronics Africa launched its Solar Powered Health Centre model in Cape Town yesterday, marking the start of a large-scale medical initiative on the continent. The mobile centres are built for use in remote rural areas, and intended to eliminate the...
Free music for Africa
Universal Music Group, in partnership with Samsung, as well as African and international music labels and publishers, has launched a pan-African mobile music streaming service called the Kleek. Designed and built specifically for Africa, the Kleek will bring music...
Riverbed announces new product capabilities
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company announced the availability of new product capabilities, developer tools and a supporting community that allow IT professionals to customise and adapt their IT infrastructure to meet the demands of their business...
WhatsApp launches on BlackBerry 10
WhatsApp, the company behind WhatsApp Messenger, and BlackBerry have announced that WhatsApp will bring a native version of its popular mobile messaging service to the BlackBerry 10 platform. BlackBerry 10 provides an ideal platform for social apps such as WhatsApp...
EC rolls out mission-critical HP servers
Hewlett-Packard Belgium has announced that, through the open Call for Tenders - DIGIT/R2/PO/2011/038 - Mainframe data servers III, it has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to supply HP Integrity servers and related offerings to support critical workloads,...