Technology News
OpenWeb offers free uncapped Internet
Internet service provider OpenWeb is offering all new Home Uncapped ADSL customers free uncapped Internet until the end of November. OpenWeb CEO Keoma Wright says home Internet users and gaming enthusiasts now have a great uncapped ADSL package designed to perfectly...
MTN cuts Sky contract pricing
MTN South Africa has cut the pricing on its MTN Sky contracts. The promotion is available to all new customers as well as those upgrading or migrating to MTN Sky, and will run from 14 November 2014 until 31 January 2015. "MTN Sky provides contract customers with...
Opera Mobile Store move to Nokia
Opera Mobile Store will replace Nokia Store as the default app store for Nokia feature phones, Symbian and Nokia X smartphones, following an agreement between Opera Software and Microsoft. Beginning in the first quarter of 2015, people who access Nokia Store from...
Westcon wins regional Microsoft award
Westcon Southern Africa has been awarded Microsoft’s Top MEA Distributor in Reach Growth for Hosting at the recent Microsoft MEA SPLAR Awards 2014 hosted in Istanbul, Turkey. The award recognises the efforts made by the local team’s Software Solutions division, which...
BCX releases annual results
Business Connexion, Africa’s largest black-owned ICT services provider, today released its annual results for the year ended 31 August 2014. The highly disruptive labour environment which prevailed in the past year in South Africa impacted a number of key sectors...
Keeping up with connected customers
At this late stage in our technological evolution we are facing yet another digital divide - this time between consumers and the companies that supposedly serve their interests. And it’s time the latter caught up, says Suren Govender, MD: Analytics at Accenture South...
Riverbed delivers Azure-certified solution
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, has announced another product from the Riverbed Application Performance Platform is now Microsoft Azure Certified. Now, customers can deploy Microsoft Azure Certified Riverbed SteelApp Traffic...
Dell improves security portfolio
Dell recently announced product integrations and innovations within its security portfolio that provide organisations with a high level of protection, and turn security into a business enabler.
Oxford releases thesaurus app
Paragon Software Group, a leading multi-platform dictionary applications developer for mobiles, tablets and PCs, announces the release of the new Oxford Learner's Thesaurus app for iPhone and iPad users. The app helps with understanding the differences between similar...
Get your payroll ready for the year-end
As we hurtle headlong in the festive season, payroll managers need to start preparing for their companies to scale down operations or shut down completely over the December holidays, says Anton van Heerden, MD of Sage HR & Payroll. Usually, they need to be ready...
Virtual client market set to top $1bn
The EMEA virtual client computing (VCC) market is expected to grow from $804,9-million in 2013 to $1,181-billion in 2018, representing a CAGR of 7,5%, according to a new study from International Data Corporation (IDC). The study assesses the different approaches to...
Scanning tech for safer level crossings
Level crossing accidents cost Transnet around R150-million annually, with injuries and fatalities taking a terrible human toll. Now TeleEye SA, a CCTV remote monitoring firm, has engineered a solution that could improve safety at South Africa's 7 500 level crossings....
Mxit, codeX partner on bursaries
Mxit has partnered with codeX to offer three bursaries to the value of R25 000 each to young Mxit users for the next intake in February 2015. codeX is a new incubator focused on breeding skilled software developers to fuel South Africa’s technology ecosystem. The...
OpenWeb offers free uncapped Internet
Internet service provider OpenWeb is offering all new Home Uncapped ADSL customers free uncapped Internet until the end of November. OpenWeb CEO Keoma Wright says home Internet users and gaming enthusiasts now have a great uncapped ADSL package designed to perfectly...
MTN cuts Sky contract pricing
MTN South Africa has cut the pricing on its MTN Sky contracts. The promotion is available to all new customers as well as those upgrading or migrating to MTN Sky, and will run from 14 November 2014 until 31 January 2015. "MTN Sky provides contract customers with...
Opera Mobile Store move to Nokia
Opera Mobile Store will replace Nokia Store as the default app store for Nokia feature phones, Symbian and Nokia X smartphones, following an agreement between Opera Software and Microsoft. Beginning in the first quarter of 2015, people who access Nokia Store from...
Westcon wins regional Microsoft award
Westcon Southern Africa has been awarded Microsoft’s Top MEA Distributor in Reach Growth for Hosting at the recent Microsoft MEA SPLAR Awards 2014 hosted in Istanbul, Turkey. The award recognises the efforts made by the local team’s Software Solutions division, which...
BCX releases annual results
Business Connexion, Africa’s largest black-owned ICT services provider, today released its annual results for the year ended 31 August 2014. The highly disruptive labour environment which prevailed in the past year in South Africa impacted a number of key sectors...
Keeping up with connected customers
At this late stage in our technological evolution we are facing yet another digital divide - this time between consumers and the companies that supposedly serve their interests. And it’s time the latter caught up, says Suren Govender, MD: Analytics at Accenture South...
Riverbed delivers Azure-certified solution
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, has announced another product from the Riverbed Application Performance Platform is now Microsoft Azure Certified. Now, customers can deploy Microsoft Azure Certified Riverbed SteelApp Traffic...