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MasterCard introduces MasterPass
At the Mobile World Congress, MasterCard has introduced MasterPass - the future of digital payments. MasterPass is a digital service that allows consumers to use any payment card or enabled device to discover enhanced shopping experiences that are as simple as a...
Comztek appoints new channel manager
Comztek, a leading distributor of high-value, high-demand, consumer and business technology products and solutions throughout South Africa and the African continent, has appointed Martin Kruger as its Samsung channel manger. The appointment follows a recent...
Huawei introduces new telematics solutions
Huawei,a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, unveiled a series of products heralding the company's first foray into telematics solutions. At the 2013 Mobile World Congress, Huawei showcased its vehicle-compatible 3G and...
Africa also on HP’s agenda
Africa is almost continually touted by major IT vendors as the “next big hope” in a market seemingly handcuffed to low single-digit growth and, while HP differs little in this regard from its major competitors, it is taking a more cautious approach to the continent....
HP pleases partners with channel tweaks
At its Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas last week, HP made some of its most comprehensive announcements around its partner programme in years - and the message has never been clearer: The more partners invest in HP, the more rewards they will reap. Among the...
Infrastructure spend on the up
The Middle East & Africa IT infrastructure market, comprising of servers, storage and networking equipment, is forecast to reach $3,9-billion in 2013, a 4% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. “IT leaders in the Gulf region are focused on business solutions...
Ultrabooks set for 2013 take-off
Ultrabooks and other ultrathin PCs will triple their penetration of the notebook market this year as their once-stratospheric pricing comes down to earth and consumers warm to the flashy convertible form factor that allows the systems to transform into tablets,...
IT spend shrugs off 2012 woes
IT spending remained broadly strong throughout a difficult end to 2012, as business confidence waned in the shadow of the "fiscal cliff", economic growth declined in much of Europe, and economies in Asia struggled to cope with reduced exports. This is according to...
Ericsson, SAP address M2M market
Ericsson and SAP have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based, machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and services to enterprises via operators around the globe. The solutions will be based on a combined software as a service (SaaS) offering from...
Esquire scoops global awards
Esquire Technologies has won two awards at the African Distributor of the Year Awards. The Distributor Initiative of the Year Award is the top award at the annual EMEA Channel Awards. Esquire Technologies has clinched two awards at this year’s 2013 EMEA Channel...
doculife offers secure document management
T-Systems, together with Switzerland’s Document Future AG, is to present a complete solution for document management from the cloud for the first time at CeBIT 2013. With doculife, companies can edit, manage and archive all of their documents in the cloud whilst...
Mxit partnership boosts Junk Mail ads
The number of ads placed on Junk Mail Xchange (JMX), the reinvigorated Mxit classified platform powered by Junk Mail, has doubled in just four months, says Junk Mail MD Felix Erken. “We’re getting close to 30 000 new ads a week,” says Erken. “This gives the entire...
Realmdigital boosts Van Schaik Web store
Leading e-commerce developer Realmdigital has given the Webstore of Van Schaik Bookstores a huge boost with the integration of Ingram’s VitalSource Bookshelf – an e-book platform that complements the book seller’s educational print catalogue. Van Schaik will sell and...
MasterCard introduces MasterPass
At the Mobile World Congress, MasterCard has introduced MasterPass - the future of digital payments. MasterPass is a digital service that allows consumers to use any payment card or enabled device to discover enhanced shopping experiences that are as simple as a...
Comztek appoints new channel manager
Comztek, a leading distributor of high-value, high-demand, consumer and business technology products and solutions throughout South Africa and the African continent, has appointed Martin Kruger as its Samsung channel manger. The appointment follows a recent...
Huawei introduces new telematics solutions
Huawei,a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, unveiled a series of products heralding the company's first foray into telematics solutions. At the 2013 Mobile World Congress, Huawei showcased its vehicle-compatible 3G and...
Africa also on HP’s agenda
Africa is almost continually touted by major IT vendors as the “next big hope” in a market seemingly handcuffed to low single-digit growth and, while HP differs little in this regard from its major competitors, it is taking a more cautious approach to the continent....
HP pleases partners with channel tweaks
At its Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas last week, HP made some of its most comprehensive announcements around its partner programme in years - and the message has never been clearer: The more partners invest in HP, the more rewards they will reap. Among the...
Infrastructure spend on the up
The Middle East & Africa IT infrastructure market, comprising of servers, storage and networking equipment, is forecast to reach $3,9-billion in 2013, a 4% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. “IT leaders in the Gulf region are focused on business solutions...
Ultrabooks set for 2013 take-off
Ultrabooks and other ultrathin PCs will triple their penetration of the notebook market this year as their once-stratospheric pricing comes down to earth and consumers warm to the flashy convertible form factor that allows the systems to transform into tablets,...