Technology News
Tablet sales pull ahead of notebooks
It is expected that more than 240-million tablet PCs will be shipped during 2013, effortlessly surpassing the 207-million notebook PCs projected to ship during the year. This is according to Christopher Riley, MD of The Notebook Company. “We are also witnessing this...
Interest in HP assets grows
HP is said to have received a number of enquiries to buy its troubled Autonomy and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) businesses, but CEO Meg Whitman has denied that the company will offload them. Reports in the international media indicate that a number of parties have...
Back-to-school PC scams
In the market for some new technology as school-going or student children enter a new school year? Users must make sure they are not inadvertently buying illegal software with their beautiful new computers or laptops. That’s the warning from Microsoft South Africa’s...
CommProve wins Safaricom contract
Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile operator, is looking to CommProve to improve its subscriber network quality of experience. As part of the agreement, CommProve will deploy its next generation network monitoring solution, CommProve NetLedge across Safaricom’s network....
Mobile operators to focus on customers
Visionary companies in the mobile telecommunications space are beginning to look at how they can set themselves apart by managing and optimising their customer service to retain and expand their subscriber base. 2013 is likely to be the year of customer experience in...
The connected workplace
Over time, digital technologies have shaped new behaviours and raised the basic human need for connection to a level that demands continual satisfaction. For the workplace in particular, this trickle-down effect has not been a simple shift. As the popular platforms,...
MAM solves digital archiving challenges
The digital data explosion is a well-documented phenomenon, and one that affects many different industries and areas of business, including the broadcasting sector, says Steve Lauter, sales manager, Jasco Broadcast Solutions. Apart from increasing volumes of data,...
Enterasys releases new switches
A new 10-model family of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet networking edge switches designed to deliver enterprise level features, including scalable, wire-rate performance, at an entry level price point has been released by Enterasys Networks. The Enterasys...
SAP updates Afaria MDM solution
SAP has announced the latest version of SAP Afaria, the industry-leading mobile device management (MDM) solution. Enhancements to the industry's most widely deployed enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution include deepening enterprise integration and...
Getting SA’s mines online
South Africa’s mining sector is one of the largest driving forces behind, and contributors to, the national economy. Since the terrain where mines operate is unforgiving and working conditions are perilous, the industry has also become increasingly reliant on...
Tellumat warns of DoC ruling repercussions
Local contract manufacturing, communications and defence group Tellumat has raised concerns over the recent finding of the South Gauteng high court for e.tv and against the Department of Communications (DoC). The free-to-air channel successfully argued that the DoC...
Tech potential not realised
Organisations realise on average only 43% of technology's business potential, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner's Executive Programs. That number has to grow for IT to remain relevant in an increasingly digital world. The worldwide survey was conducted...
Gauteng Innovation winners announced
eGov Connect has been named as the winner of the Gauteng Innovation Competition. eGov Connect pulls communication between citizens and government, as well as fault reporting and social media into a unified user experience to enable easy interaction with public...
Tablet sales pull ahead of notebooks
It is expected that more than 240-million tablet PCs will be shipped during 2013, effortlessly surpassing the 207-million notebook PCs projected to ship during the year. This is according to Christopher Riley, MD of The Notebook Company. “We are also witnessing this...
Interest in HP assets grows
HP is said to have received a number of enquiries to buy its troubled Autonomy and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) businesses, but CEO Meg Whitman has denied that the company will offload them. Reports in the international media indicate that a number of parties have...
Back-to-school PC scams
In the market for some new technology as school-going or student children enter a new school year? Users must make sure they are not inadvertently buying illegal software with their beautiful new computers or laptops. That’s the warning from Microsoft South Africa’s...
CommProve wins Safaricom contract
Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile operator, is looking to CommProve to improve its subscriber network quality of experience. As part of the agreement, CommProve will deploy its next generation network monitoring solution, CommProve NetLedge across Safaricom’s network....
Mobile operators to focus on customers
Visionary companies in the mobile telecommunications space are beginning to look at how they can set themselves apart by managing and optimising their customer service to retain and expand their subscriber base. 2013 is likely to be the year of customer experience in...
The connected workplace
Over time, digital technologies have shaped new behaviours and raised the basic human need for connection to a level that demands continual satisfaction. For the workplace in particular, this trickle-down effect has not been a simple shift. As the popular platforms,...
MAM solves digital archiving challenges
The digital data explosion is a well-documented phenomenon, and one that affects many different industries and areas of business, including the broadcasting sector, says Steve Lauter, sales manager, Jasco Broadcast Solutions. Apart from increasing volumes of data,...