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HP targets consumers with Slate
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HP has announced the HP Slate, an affordable Android Jelly Bean consumer tablet that provides customers with easy access to Google Mobile services. With a 17,78cm (7-inch) diagonal screen and weighing 368 grams, the HP Slate7...
Huawei debuts fastest smartphone
Huawei has introduced the Ascend P2, the world's fastest smartphone, at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC). The Ascend P2 features a 1,5GHz quad-core processor and LTE Cat 4 providing an ultrafast Web experience with download speeds of up to 150Mbps. Continuing the...
IBM, Nokia Siemens to collaborate
Nokia Siemens Networks and IBM have announced a collaboration to deliver the world’s first mobile edge computing platform that can run applications directly within a mobile base station. This new platform allows mobile operators to create a truly unique mobile...
Transnet implements Autonomy solution
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is a division of Transnet, tasked with controlling and managing all commercial ports on South Africa’s coastline. It is the largest port authority in southern Africa in terms of cargo volumes and is responsible for providing...
Citrix introduces XenMobile MDM
Citrix has announced XenMobile MDM, an enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution that gives users device choice while also enabling IT to meet its management and compliance requirements. XenMobile MDM joins other Citrix solutions, including Citrix...
Wizardz expands service offering with Epson
Wizardz Design & Print, an on-demand consumer print shop in Cape Town, has expanded its service offering by installing South Africa’s first Epson SureColor SC-S30610 large format printer in its flagship store in the Gardens Shopping Centre. “We wanted to expand...
Samsung launches new displays at ISE 2013
Samsung has unveiled its full line-up of innovative digital signage products, including a 95-inch LED display, at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2013. Samsung’s 2013 digital signage products are cost-efficient solutions for businesses, built on the newly developed...
LV= adopts Mendix App Platform
LV=, one of the UK’s largest insurers, has adopted the Mendix App Platform for its fast-track development of innovative applications. In the hotly competitive insurance industry, LV= has seen its business grow rapidly over the past five years, which has created...
Ruckus grows presence in Botswana
Ruckus Wireless has appointed IT-IQ Botswana as a Top Dog reseller and authorised training partner (ATP) in the region. This agreement will see IT-IQ being the official reseller of all Ruckus Wireless solutions in Botswana – effective immediately. “Botswana is a...
MicroStrategy, BITanium deliver BI solutions
Business intelligence (BI) solutions provider BITanium has partnered with global enterprise software giant MicroStrategy to deliver off-site BI solutions to South African enterprises. Chris O’Connell, BITanium MD, says BITanium, one of the biggest MicroStrategy...
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...
HP targets consumers with Slate
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HP has announced the HP Slate, an affordable Android Jelly Bean consumer tablet that provides customers with easy access to Google Mobile services. With a 17,78cm (7-inch) diagonal screen and weighing 368 grams, the HP Slate7...
Huawei debuts fastest smartphone
Huawei has introduced the Ascend P2, the world's fastest smartphone, at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC). The Ascend P2 features a 1,5GHz quad-core processor and LTE Cat 4 providing an ultrafast Web experience with download speeds of up to 150Mbps. Continuing the...
IBM, Nokia Siemens to collaborate
Nokia Siemens Networks and IBM have announced a collaboration to deliver the world’s first mobile edge computing platform that can run applications directly within a mobile base station. This new platform allows mobile operators to create a truly unique mobile...
Transnet implements Autonomy solution
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is a division of Transnet, tasked with controlling and managing all commercial ports on South Africa’s coastline. It is the largest port authority in southern Africa in terms of cargo volumes and is responsible for providing...
Citrix introduces XenMobile MDM
Citrix has announced XenMobile MDM, an enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution that gives users device choice while also enabling IT to meet its management and compliance requirements. XenMobile MDM joins other Citrix solutions, including Citrix...
Wizardz expands service offering with Epson
Wizardz Design & Print, an on-demand consumer print shop in Cape Town, has expanded its service offering by installing South Africa’s first Epson SureColor SC-S30610 large format printer in its flagship store in the Gardens Shopping Centre. “We wanted to expand...
Samsung launches new displays at ISE 2013
Samsung has unveiled its full line-up of innovative digital signage products, including a 95-inch LED display, at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2013. Samsung’s 2013 digital signage products are cost-efficient solutions for businesses, built on the newly developed...