Technology News
Telecom Namibia connects to WACS
Telecom Namibia, the national fixed and mobile telecoms operator in Namibia, has entered into an agreement with NewTelco South Africa, represented by Jasco Co-location Solutions, to establish a total of four international points of presence (PoPs) connected into the...
Business process efficiency is vital
In the current operating environment, organisations need to improve the efficiency of business processes and provide better services and innovative products to customers through both established and emerging channels to ensure competitive advantage in the marketplace,...
MTN to expand trigeneration plant
The successful commissioning and operation of MTN’s trigeneration plant at its head office in Fairland, Johannesburg, is attracting numerous requests from companies wanting to join the programme to be implemented at other sites of MTN. Robbie Louw, a director of...
Pro-business budget is needed
A pro-business budget is crucial in order to trigger a much needed cash injection into the South African economy. The budget should focus on encouraging business confidence and investment in the coming year, so that business injects the record cash balances that they...
Ericsson launches 3G services in Ethiopia
Ericsson has provided the network infrastructure and services to bring voice and data communications to the Millennium Village Project (MVP) in Koraro located in a remote part of northern Ethiopia. With access to 3G connectivity more than 4 000 students and their...
DiData Pro-Am goes high tech with Microsoft
In what is believed to be the first technology deployment of its kind on the South African golfing circuit, Dimension Data and Microsoft South Africa have developed a unique experience using Windows 8 technology designed specifically for use at the 2013 Dimension Data...
EMC Isilon recognised by Gartner
EMC Corporation has announced that its EMC Isilon product has been recognised with the an overall product viability rating of “outstanding” by Gartner in its new Critical Capabilities for Scale-Out File System Storage report. The rating was given to EMC Isilon based...
BB10 launch to spur app development
App development for BlackBerry smartphones is set to explode with the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 operating system and smartphones and the BlackBerry World app store according to Simon Bestbier of leading mobile development company Realmdigital. “The BlackBerry...
Blue Turtle named WHIPTAIL reseller
Blue Turtle Technologies (Blue Turtle) has announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with WHIPTAIL, the storage-industry innovator powering faster and more energy-efficient computing for today’s global businesses via Flash storage, at the official partnership...
Samsung unveils ChatON 2.0
Samsung Electronics, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today unveiled ChatON 2.0, the next version of the popular global communication service that connects all phone users into a single community. Now available in over 200...
One-third of users are infected
At least one-third (31,98%) of all computers around the world have malware. This is one of the findings from Panda Security’s 2012 Annual Security Report, which details an extremely interesting year of data theft, social networking attacks and cyber-warfare. With the...
McAfee signs up First Distribution
McAfee South Africa has announced the appointment of its distributor First Distribution as its first local managed service provider (MSP) programme distributor. The MSP service is McAfee’s cloud-based security offering designed to make installing and managing a...
Plan to improve African information
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched an ambitious programme to significantly improve data management and dissemination in Africa. The ultimate goal of the programme is to facilitate wider public access to official statistics and to support countries in...
Telecom Namibia connects to WACS
Telecom Namibia, the national fixed and mobile telecoms operator in Namibia, has entered into an agreement with NewTelco South Africa, represented by Jasco Co-location Solutions, to establish a total of four international points of presence (PoPs) connected into the...
Business process efficiency is vital
In the current operating environment, organisations need to improve the efficiency of business processes and provide better services and innovative products to customers through both established and emerging channels to ensure competitive advantage in the marketplace,...
MTN to expand trigeneration plant
The successful commissioning and operation of MTN’s trigeneration plant at its head office in Fairland, Johannesburg, is attracting numerous requests from companies wanting to join the programme to be implemented at other sites of MTN. Robbie Louw, a director of...
Pro-business budget is needed
A pro-business budget is crucial in order to trigger a much needed cash injection into the South African economy. The budget should focus on encouraging business confidence and investment in the coming year, so that business injects the record cash balances that they...
Ericsson launches 3G services in Ethiopia
Ericsson has provided the network infrastructure and services to bring voice and data communications to the Millennium Village Project (MVP) in Koraro located in a remote part of northern Ethiopia. With access to 3G connectivity more than 4 000 students and their...
DiData Pro-Am goes high tech with Microsoft
In what is believed to be the first technology deployment of its kind on the South African golfing circuit, Dimension Data and Microsoft South Africa have developed a unique experience using Windows 8 technology designed specifically for use at the 2013 Dimension Data...
EMC Isilon recognised by Gartner
EMC Corporation has announced that its EMC Isilon product has been recognised with the an overall product viability rating of “outstanding” by Gartner in its new Critical Capabilities for Scale-Out File System Storage report. The rating was given to EMC Isilon based...