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Why companies need a go-to-market plan
With the dawn of a new year, many new innovative startups are also bound to see the light as young entrepreneurs with stars in their eyes and dreams of becoming the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Shuttleworth, put their ideas into what they surely hope will...
Realtime bidding to change Web ad sales
Realtime bidding for online display advertising could help South African publishers to sell more of their inventory at a lower cost and for a higher price if it is wisely exploited. So says Attila Bernariusz, divisional head at Kagiso Digital, one of South Africa's...
DVT develops mobile app for MUA clients
MUA Insurance Acceptances, a leading insurance underwriter specialising in tailored personal lines insurance solutions for high net worth individuals, has launched a mobile application developed by DVT in an effort to streamline communications with its clients and...
Unemployment worsens debt
The high rate of unemployment in South Africa continues to exacerbate already high levels of over-indebtedness in the country, says Credit Ombud, Manie van Schalkwyk. He was commenting on the release of Stats SA’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey, which shows an...
Smartphones, tablets drive printing
The explosion of smartphone and tablet adoption will impact printing, scanning, document management and print volumes in surprising ways over the next five years. According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) survey of 800 unique respondents, smartphone and...
Smart cities need smart security
As ICT takes a bigger and bigger place in users' day-to-day lives, cyber-security becomes an essential requirement, states a new report by GBI Research. The new report states that smart security represents a core product within the smart cities market, due to the...
Micro server shipments to triple
Driven by booming demand for new data centre services for mobile platforms and cloud computing, shipments of micro servers are expected to more than triple this year, according to an IHS iSuppli Compute Platforms Topical Report from information and analytics provider...
MTN revives Mahala Thursdays
While South Africans are still adjusting to the recent fuel price increases and the rising cost of living in the New Year, MTN has revived Mahala Thursdays to bring much-needed relief and value to customers looking to stretch each penny spent. Mahala Thursdays...
Jasco announces interim results
Jasco Electronics has announced interim results for the six month period to December 2012, following completion of the first year and a half of its three-year strategy implementation. Commenting on the results, Jasco’s CEO, Pete da Silva, says: “The core businesses...
HDD revenue set to decline
Facing a relentless onslaught from tablets, smartphones and solid state drives (SSD), global hard disk drive (HDD) market revenue in 2013 will decline by about 12% this year, according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Space market brief from information and analytics...
Syncrony operates online discount store
Syncrony, a leading national provider of Web design and content management services, as well as tablet and phone apps, now manages and operates ontheinternet.co.za. This is a local online store dedicated to providing consumers with discounted deals on a wide range of...
Oracle announces MySQL 5.6
Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6, the world’s most popular open-source database. With increased performance, scalability, reliability and manageability, MySQL 5.6 helps users meet the most demanding Web, cloud and embedded application...
Survey: SaaS customer support lacking
According to a global research from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), businesses increasingly value software as a service (SaaS) applications, but many enterprises are facing significant customer support challenges with their SaaS vendors, leading to low customer...
Why companies need a go-to-market plan
With the dawn of a new year, many new innovative startups are also bound to see the light as young entrepreneurs with stars in their eyes and dreams of becoming the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Shuttleworth, put their ideas into what they surely hope will...
Realtime bidding to change Web ad sales
Realtime bidding for online display advertising could help South African publishers to sell more of their inventory at a lower cost and for a higher price if it is wisely exploited. So says Attila Bernariusz, divisional head at Kagiso Digital, one of South Africa's...
DVT develops mobile app for MUA clients
MUA Insurance Acceptances, a leading insurance underwriter specialising in tailored personal lines insurance solutions for high net worth individuals, has launched a mobile application developed by DVT in an effort to streamline communications with its clients and...
Unemployment worsens debt
The high rate of unemployment in South Africa continues to exacerbate already high levels of over-indebtedness in the country, says Credit Ombud, Manie van Schalkwyk. He was commenting on the release of Stats SA’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey, which shows an...
Smartphones, tablets drive printing
The explosion of smartphone and tablet adoption will impact printing, scanning, document management and print volumes in surprising ways over the next five years. According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) survey of 800 unique respondents, smartphone and...
Smart cities need smart security
As ICT takes a bigger and bigger place in users' day-to-day lives, cyber-security becomes an essential requirement, states a new report by GBI Research. The new report states that smart security represents a core product within the smart cities market, due to the...
Micro server shipments to triple
Driven by booming demand for new data centre services for mobile platforms and cloud computing, shipments of micro servers are expected to more than triple this year, according to an IHS iSuppli Compute Platforms Topical Report from information and analytics provider...