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HP announces new Cloud Builder programmes
HP has announced two new HP Cloud Builder programmes that enable partners to leverage HP Cloud Services, the company’s public cloud, to expand their cloud practices and generate new revenue opportunities. HP also introduced three new “as a service” offerings from HP...
Mara Online, Plingm form partnership
Mara Online, part of the African conglomerate Mara Group, and Plingm, the Swedish mobile VoIP application provider, form a strategic partnership to develop mobile communication in Africa. Together the partners will market a free mobile VoIP app called Mara Connect,...
African Utility Week to focus on investors
The new GET FiT investment mechanism which brings private and public investors together, the proposed BRICS Bank and China’s funding relationship with Africa are some of the updates featured during the investment and finance track of the upcoming African Utility Week...
Dell’s woes ‘great opportunity’ for HP
HP Global Partner Conference, Las Vegas – The trials and tribulations that have struck Dell since the announcement by its founder Michael Dell that it intends privatising should be viewed as an opportunity for HP and its partners – and they should take full advantage...
Whitman explains write-downs
HP Global Partner Conference, Las Vegas – HP CEO Meg Whitman spoke publicly for the first time about the billion dollar write-downs of acquisitions EDS and Autonomy during a Q&A session after her keynote at the company’s annual partner conference yesterday....
Curiosity sees into Mars rock
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond Earth and collected a sample from its interior....
BlackBerry Z10 debuts in SA
Both Vodacom and MTN have announced that the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is available in South Africa. Vodacom states that the device is available now from Vodacom World in Midrand and will be available from other Vodacom stores on 22 February 2013. The BlackBerry...
Challenges to cloud adoption
Business and IT leaders across the globe are finding cloud adoption to be more complicated than many had originally anticipated. According to a report from KPMG International, The Cloud Takes Shape, nearly 33% of all executives surveyed say that cloud implementation...
ISPA urges further IP Connect cuts
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) says that further reductions in Internet Protocol Connect (IP Connect) prices are urgently required to keep fixed-line connectivity competitive in South Africa. IP Connect is the wholesale product through which...
Tablets drive gains in gaming
The rapid take-up of tablets, combined with the growing acceptance of in-game purchasing and virtual currencies, will result in an estimated $3,03-billion of sales in 2016, reaching over 10-times the $301-million figure calculated for 2012. This is according to a new...
Tablets, smartphones fuel telepresence
Smartphones and tablets continue to nab market share from more traditional computing technologies, such as netbooks, as they are integrated into the enterprise arena. Apple's iPad and tablets featuring Android-enabled operating systems, for example, have given rise to...
SMBs can benefit from BI
Whenever they hear the term “business intelligence” (BI), owners of small-to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) might be under the wrongful impression that it is a solution meant to be implemented only by major corporations and large enterprises with multi-million...
DCC stocks WD Red NAS drive
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) is now delivering Western Digital’s (WD) Red network attached storage (NAS) hard drives. The Red drive is an innovative line of SATA hard drives with intellipower technology specifically designed for home and small office...
HP announces new Cloud Builder programmes
HP has announced two new HP Cloud Builder programmes that enable partners to leverage HP Cloud Services, the company’s public cloud, to expand their cloud practices and generate new revenue opportunities. HP also introduced three new “as a service” offerings from HP...
Mara Online, Plingm form partnership
Mara Online, part of the African conglomerate Mara Group, and Plingm, the Swedish mobile VoIP application provider, form a strategic partnership to develop mobile communication in Africa. Together the partners will market a free mobile VoIP app called Mara Connect,...
African Utility Week to focus on investors
The new GET FiT investment mechanism which brings private and public investors together, the proposed BRICS Bank and China’s funding relationship with Africa are some of the updates featured during the investment and finance track of the upcoming African Utility Week...
Dell’s woes ‘great opportunity’ for HP
HP Global Partner Conference, Las Vegas – The trials and tribulations that have struck Dell since the announcement by its founder Michael Dell that it intends privatising should be viewed as an opportunity for HP and its partners – and they should take full advantage...
Whitman explains write-downs
HP Global Partner Conference, Las Vegas – HP CEO Meg Whitman spoke publicly for the first time about the billion dollar write-downs of acquisitions EDS and Autonomy during a Q&A session after her keynote at the company’s annual partner conference yesterday....
Curiosity sees into Mars rock
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond Earth and collected a sample from its interior....
BlackBerry Z10 debuts in SA
Both Vodacom and MTN have announced that the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is available in South Africa. Vodacom states that the device is available now from Vodacom World in Midrand and will be available from other Vodacom stores on 22 February 2013. The BlackBerry...