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Bytes deploys Zambian securities exchange
Bytes Connect has successfully installed the infrastructure to take the new Zambian Securities Exchange live. The new Bonds and Derivatives Exchange (BaDex) launched in Lusaka recently, with infrastructure and applications sourced in South Africa. South African...
Security goes beyond antivirus
The new challenges of organised cybercrime and a boom in employee-owned devices have made protecting business data tougher than ever. Eugene Kaspersky, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, comments: “We’ve entered the age of high-profile targeted attacks,...
dotFNB store opens in Cape Town
FNB has expanded its dotFNB branch footprint by opening a dotFNB store at Cavendish Square, the first of its kind in Cape Town. Following the success of the first dotFNB branch, which opened in April 2012, five stores have since opened around South Africa - three in...
Absa launches ‘branch-on-the-move’
Absa has embarked on its first operational trial of a “branch-on-the-move” in Idutywa in the Eastern Cape - where the original branch had been destroyed by fire. Absa’s head of retail markets, Arrie Rautenbach, says the branch-on-the-move concept is designed to...
Itec division to be major telecoms player
Office automation and communications group Itec has acquired a majority stake in Songimali Communications, a licensed telecommunications provider. The deal positions Itec as a tier one provider, which, through its recently formed division Itec Communications, will...
Barnstone extends SAP partnership
Barnstone has announced it has extended its partnership with SAP in Africa and will offer managed mobility services (MMS) leveraging the SAP Mobile Platform. Barnstone will offer an innovative mobility solution to corporate end-users. A range of IT service companies...
eBucks takes pinch out of petrol price hike
Members of eBucks, the rewards programme offered by FNB and RMB Private Bank, may not have to feel the pinch of the petrol price increase of 81c per litre today as much as non-eBucks members. They are able to use their eBucks to help pay for their next tank of fuel at...
Quintica boosts business efficiencies
Quintica customers who are looking to automate the management, control, and enforcement of configuration changes across servers, networks, databases, and applications - in the traditional data centre and in the cloud, can now do so by adopting the Bladelogic...
Vantage Goldfields delopys Sage ERP solution
Accounting and related business software solutions provider Lorge has supplied and implemented a Sage 300 ERP (formerly Accpac) premium edition software solution for Vantage Goldfields at its office in Nelspruit. Vantage Goldfields, an Australian-owned company...
Vox offers free YahClick installation
Vox Telecom will be offering free hardware and installation on its YahClick business and enterprise packages during the month of March. YahClick, a pioneering Ka-band satellite service offered by Vox Telecom, is the answer that many rural businesses and regional...
Epson extends footprint with Raluca
Epson has strengthened its South African distribution base with the appointment of Raluca as a specialist distributor for its range of wide format printers. “This appointment is part of Epson’s strategy to expand its reach into the South African public sector,...
SA is wired up but switched off
Despite the fact that 84% of South African homes have access to electricity, over a quarter of households do not use it for cooking and over half do not use it for heating, according to the latest South Africa Survey published by the South African Institute of Race...
Vodacom beats solar record
Vodacom has unveiled the largest solar array of panels on a single building in Africa at its offices in Century City, Cape Town. The installation of the solar array is part of Vodacom's ongoing drive to help reduce the amount of energy the company consumes. The solar...
Bytes deploys Zambian securities exchange
Bytes Connect has successfully installed the infrastructure to take the new Zambian Securities Exchange live. The new Bonds and Derivatives Exchange (BaDex) launched in Lusaka recently, with infrastructure and applications sourced in South Africa. South African...
Security goes beyond antivirus
The new challenges of organised cybercrime and a boom in employee-owned devices have made protecting business data tougher than ever. Eugene Kaspersky, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, comments: “We’ve entered the age of high-profile targeted attacks,...
dotFNB store opens in Cape Town
FNB has expanded its dotFNB branch footprint by opening a dotFNB store at Cavendish Square, the first of its kind in Cape Town. Following the success of the first dotFNB branch, which opened in April 2012, five stores have since opened around South Africa - three in...
Absa launches ‘branch-on-the-move’
Absa has embarked on its first operational trial of a “branch-on-the-move” in Idutywa in the Eastern Cape - where the original branch had been destroyed by fire. Absa’s head of retail markets, Arrie Rautenbach, says the branch-on-the-move concept is designed to...
Itec division to be major telecoms player
Office automation and communications group Itec has acquired a majority stake in Songimali Communications, a licensed telecommunications provider. The deal positions Itec as a tier one provider, which, through its recently formed division Itec Communications, will...
Barnstone extends SAP partnership
Barnstone has announced it has extended its partnership with SAP in Africa and will offer managed mobility services (MMS) leveraging the SAP Mobile Platform. Barnstone will offer an innovative mobility solution to corporate end-users. A range of IT service companies...
eBucks takes pinch out of petrol price hike
Members of eBucks, the rewards programme offered by FNB and RMB Private Bank, may not have to feel the pinch of the petrol price increase of 81c per litre today as much as non-eBucks members. They are able to use their eBucks to help pay for their next tank of fuel at...