Technology News
FET Colleges go live on ITS Integrator
Both the Port Elizabeth and Buffalo City Further Education and Training (FET) Colleges have gone live with its implementation of ITS Integrator. This was provided by ITS Tertiary Software, a leading independent technology solutions and services company and member of...
BBM 7 available on BlackBerry 5 OS
BlackBerry has announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) version 7.0.1,which features voice chatting over a WiFi connection, is now available for BlackBerry smartphones running the BlackBerry 5 OS. BBM version 7.0.1 with BBM Voice is a fast, convenient, and...
500 businesses respond to revised BEE codes
About 500 businesses have submitted comment to the DTI’s proposed revised BEE codes released in October 2012. Keith Levenstein, CEO of EconoBEE, a BEE advisory firm, says the radical ideas in the proposed codes and lack of communication from the DTI left businesses...
Detection, response is key for security
The real target for cybercriminals today is not technology. It’s the employee. With security measures being increasingly more effective, often the only point of entry to a company’s network for a cybercriminal is via an employee. In addition, the mobility of employees...
SKA partners on exascale research
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa, a business unit of the country’s National Research Foundation, is joining the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy Astron and IBM in a four-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer...
Small growth for storage shipments
Worldwide external disk storage systems' factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 2,3%, totalling just over $6,7-billion, in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems...
Tablet ownership set to quadruple
Tablet ownership in Western Europe is set to quadruple in the next five years as the percentage of online consumers to own a tablet increases from 14% in 2012 to 55% in 2017, according to a new Forrester forecast. The dramatic growth follows what was a pivotal year...
Tablet buyers look for price-performance
As the consumer continues to battle with over-indebtedness, price-performance is becoming a bigger issue - and end-users are looking far more closely at specifications to ensure that they do not pay too much by “buying features they will not use”. This is according to...
Wireless infrastructure spending to rise
Capital expenditures on wireless infrastructure equipment will continue to increase this year as mobile operators increasingly transition to 4G long term evolution (LTE), but more heterogeneous architectures such as small cells will also need to be deployed to ease...
Virtualisation grows software-centric telcos
Software-defined network (SDN) and large-scale network virtualisation are two emerging telecom industry technologies that will combine to drive a more software-centric and programmable telecom infrastructure and services ecosystem. According to new research from...
Contact centres go social with Aspect Social
Aspect Software, a leading provider of next generation customer contact and enterprise workforce optimisation, has announced the launch of Aspect Social, a cloud-based offering that aligns interactions organisations have with customers on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and...
Multisource brings GSM to rural Zambia
Leading South African wireless communication specialist Multisource Telecoms has won a contract that will see 20 low-cost GSM towers bringing cell phone communications to rural Zambians for the first time. Supplied by US-based wireless telecommunications giant Vanu,...
BMW hosts inaugural e-mobility summit
BMW South Africa held its first-ever electro mobility (e-mobility) stakeholder summit in George, Western Cape, recently as part of a drive to begin unpacking the future of e-mobility domestically. The week-long event was attended by groups of business and motoring...
FET Colleges go live on ITS Integrator
Both the Port Elizabeth and Buffalo City Further Education and Training (FET) Colleges have gone live with its implementation of ITS Integrator. This was provided by ITS Tertiary Software, a leading independent technology solutions and services company and member of...
BBM 7 available on BlackBerry 5 OS
BlackBerry has announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) version 7.0.1,which features voice chatting over a WiFi connection, is now available for BlackBerry smartphones running the BlackBerry 5 OS. BBM version 7.0.1 with BBM Voice is a fast, convenient, and...
500 businesses respond to revised BEE codes
About 500 businesses have submitted comment to the DTI’s proposed revised BEE codes released in October 2012. Keith Levenstein, CEO of EconoBEE, a BEE advisory firm, says the radical ideas in the proposed codes and lack of communication from the DTI left businesses...
Detection, response is key for security
The real target for cybercriminals today is not technology. It’s the employee. With security measures being increasingly more effective, often the only point of entry to a company’s network for a cybercriminal is via an employee. In addition, the mobility of employees...
SKA partners on exascale research
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa, a business unit of the country’s National Research Foundation, is joining the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy Astron and IBM in a four-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer...
Small growth for storage shipments
Worldwide external disk storage systems' factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 2,3%, totalling just over $6,7-billion, in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems...
Tablet ownership set to quadruple
Tablet ownership in Western Europe is set to quadruple in the next five years as the percentage of online consumers to own a tablet increases from 14% in 2012 to 55% in 2017, according to a new Forrester forecast. The dramatic growth follows what was a pivotal year...