Technology News
Van Schaik offers e-textbooks
Van Schaik Bookstores has launched a new e-textbook offering that provides an interactive educational tool for students, lecturers and other professionals - and makes many of the locally prescribed textbooks available as e-textbooks. “Until now, very few locally...
Africa to the fore at Microsoft
Microsoft and Huawei have collaborated to launch a smartphone designed for Africa users, particularly university students, developers and first-time smartphone users. This is part of the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative, a new effort through which the company will...
Oracle acquires Acme Packet
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Acme Packet, a global provider of session border control technology, for $29.25 per share or approximately $1,7-billion, net of Acme Packet’s cash. Acme Packet enables the trusted, first-class delivery of next-generation...
Cell C throws down price gauntlet
Cell C is challenging South Africans to check how much they are paying for their mobile calls, as part of its new advertising and marketing campaign that kicked off yesterday. The challenge forms the basis of Cell C’s advertising and marketing campaign for the first...
Vodacom Business’ new cloud platform
A new cloud solution, launched by Vodacom Business Services, the enterprise arm of Vodacom Group, means that South African businesses can now eliminate the need to have a private branch exchange (PBX) on their premises. Hosted in the Vodacom Data Centre, the IP PBX...
Datacentrix acquires NokusaEI
Datacentrix has acquired Nokusa Engineering Informatics (NokusaEI), an international consulting company specialising in enterprise content management (ECM) strategies, solutions and implementations. A locally-based, privately-owned BEE company, NokusaEI forms part of...
African SMEs drive economic growth
International trade and co-operation has become a key driver of small business success, according to DHL Express study by HIS. The macro-economic analysis and survey of 410 SME directors in G7 and BRICM economies reveals that SMEs engaged in international markets are...
Firms miss on customer interaction
Worldwide, companies wish to improve their interaction with customers, but many are at a loss about how to do it. Oracle has announced the results of its Global Insights on Succeeding in the Customer Experience Era report, a global survey of 1 342 senior-level...
Hybrid apps come of age
With enterprises under extreme pressure from management and employees to develop and deploy mobile applications to accommodate mobile work styles and increase customer engagement, Gartner predicts that more than 50% of mobile apps deployed by 2016 will be hybrid. ...
Modest growth for retail banking spend
Retail banks across the globe will see IT spending grow 3,4%, reaching $118,6-billion in 2013, as CIOs focus on customer satisfaction and revenue growth. This is according to global industry analysts Ovum, which finds that European banks are lagging behind their North...
New chapter as Dell goes private
Dell is on its way to starting a new chapter in the IT industry by taking the company private, according to analysts. Carter Lusher, chief IT analyst at Ovum, believes the move makes strategic sense. “Dell is in the midst of a wrenching transition from a supplier of...
Dell goes private in $24,4bn deal
Dell has signed a definitive merger agreement under which Michael Dell, the company’s founder, chairman and CEO, in partnership with global technology investment firm Silver Lake, will acquire Dell. Under the terms of the agreement, Dell stockholders will receive...
Little financial freedom in SA
South Africans fear they will never be financially free in a worsening global economy. These are some of the results of Visa’s first annual Wealth Worries Survey 2013, one of the most comprehensive reports into middle class South Africans and their money. The report...
Van Schaik offers e-textbooks
Van Schaik Bookstores has launched a new e-textbook offering that provides an interactive educational tool for students, lecturers and other professionals - and makes many of the locally prescribed textbooks available as e-textbooks. “Until now, very few locally...
Africa to the fore at Microsoft
Microsoft and Huawei have collaborated to launch a smartphone designed for Africa users, particularly university students, developers and first-time smartphone users. This is part of the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative, a new effort through which the company will...
Oracle acquires Acme Packet
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Acme Packet, a global provider of session border control technology, for $29.25 per share or approximately $1,7-billion, net of Acme Packet’s cash. Acme Packet enables the trusted, first-class delivery of next-generation...
Cell C throws down price gauntlet
Cell C is challenging South Africans to check how much they are paying for their mobile calls, as part of its new advertising and marketing campaign that kicked off yesterday. The challenge forms the basis of Cell C’s advertising and marketing campaign for the first...
Vodacom Business’ new cloud platform
A new cloud solution, launched by Vodacom Business Services, the enterprise arm of Vodacom Group, means that South African businesses can now eliminate the need to have a private branch exchange (PBX) on their premises. Hosted in the Vodacom Data Centre, the IP PBX...
Datacentrix acquires NokusaEI
Datacentrix has acquired Nokusa Engineering Informatics (NokusaEI), an international consulting company specialising in enterprise content management (ECM) strategies, solutions and implementations. A locally-based, privately-owned BEE company, NokusaEI forms part of...
African SMEs drive economic growth
International trade and co-operation has become a key driver of small business success, according to DHL Express study by HIS. The macro-economic analysis and survey of 410 SME directors in G7 and BRICM economies reveals that SMEs engaged in international markets are...