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Food security system wins SAB award
The SAB Foundation has named local innovation, Bee-Pak, a compact bee farming system, as the R1-million prize winner in its 4th Annual Social Innovation Awards. Bee-Pak is trademarked as the ‘world’s first flat pack composite beehive system’. The innovation has an...
Kaspsersky delivers 4Pb of security updates
Kaspersky Lab delivers 60,000 updates a month to all of its protection products worldwide. The total size of these updates is equivalent to four petabytes. That is roughly the same as 1 million movies, or more than 10 million books. If you stacked all those tomes in a...
Tablet PCs drive business innovation
Tablet PC sales continue to grow and it’s not just consumers that are buying. Businesses are increasingly recognising tablet PCs as a platform for innovation. New specification tablet PCs – which now combine portability with the power of a laptop and experience of a...
Smart info management key for governance
Information volumes continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, particularly in the area of randomly generated unstructured user data, says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft International. This is a result of the way the modern “information worker” interacts and...
Altech Collab wins Huawei award
Altech Collab was recently presented with Best Service Capabilities award for 2014 at the Huawei Enterprise Annual Channel Conference. The company also scooped awards for Name Account Development and Best IP Sales. Altech Collab is the business unit within the Altron...
Ricoh SA sponsors Nedbank Golf Challenge
Ricoh SA is an official brand sponsor and office automation equipment supplier for the Nedbank Golf Challenge 2014 that takes place at the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City from 4 to 7 December. Ricoh SA’s entrance into golf sponsorship at this level demonstrates...
Employee complacency fuels security issues
Cisco Connect 2014, Sun City - Critical company data is at risk in South Africa as a result of organisations focusing IT security policies and resources more on external threats, such as cybercriminals and hackers, and not enough on the threat from within the...
IoE will define industry winners and losers
The Internet of Everything (IoE) has fast become a reality in today’s world and those companies that are slow in realising this and embracing it are destined for failure. Mark Davison reports from Cisco Connect 2014, Sun City.
Facebook bridges the gender divide
Facebook is the first platform in South Africa that has seen exactly equal uptake by males and females. This is one of the findings in the SA Social Media Landscape 2015 report by World Wide Worx and Fuseware. The headline findings, announced in September, had shown...
Wireless in demand, despite fibre rollout
The demand for wireless in high-density fibre areas of South Africa continues unabated. This is according to Brenden Pronk, chief commercial officer of Comsol, who says that, even in the most dense fibre areas, Comsol and its biggest ISP client continue to deploy a...
Crawdaddys offers free WiFi
The Notebook Company has rolled out free WiFi connections at Crawdaddys in Centurion, Menlyn (Pretoria) and Rustenburg. The company will also be installing WiFi at Tzaneen and at Silver Lakes, which will be opening next year. This comes on the back of the initial...
Chips are up as IoT takes off
The processing, sensing and communications semiconductor device portion of the Internet of Things (IoT) will be a rapidly growing segment of the total semiconductor market, growing 36,2% in 2015, compared with the overall semiconductor market growth of 5,7%, according...
Altron’s Venter wins award
Craig Venter, group executive of Altron and CEO of Altech, has been announced as the Continental Winner for the ICT Sector (Africa) in the CEO Communications’ Titans – Building Nations Award for 2014. Venter was recognised for his influence in the information and...
Food security system wins SAB award
The SAB Foundation has named local innovation, Bee-Pak, a compact bee farming system, as the R1-million prize winner in its 4th Annual Social Innovation Awards. Bee-Pak is trademarked as the ‘world’s first flat pack composite beehive system’. The innovation has an...
Kaspsersky delivers 4Pb of security updates
Kaspersky Lab delivers 60,000 updates a month to all of its protection products worldwide. The total size of these updates is equivalent to four petabytes. That is roughly the same as 1 million movies, or more than 10 million books. If you stacked all those tomes in a...
Tablet PCs drive business innovation
Tablet PC sales continue to grow and it’s not just consumers that are buying. Businesses are increasingly recognising tablet PCs as a platform for innovation. New specification tablet PCs – which now combine portability with the power of a laptop and experience of a...
Smart info management key for governance
Information volumes continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, particularly in the area of randomly generated unstructured user data, says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft International. This is a result of the way the modern “information worker” interacts and...
Altech Collab wins Huawei award
Altech Collab was recently presented with Best Service Capabilities award for 2014 at the Huawei Enterprise Annual Channel Conference. The company also scooped awards for Name Account Development and Best IP Sales. Altech Collab is the business unit within the Altron...
Ricoh SA sponsors Nedbank Golf Challenge
Ricoh SA is an official brand sponsor and office automation equipment supplier for the Nedbank Golf Challenge 2014 that takes place at the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City from 4 to 7 December. Ricoh SA’s entrance into golf sponsorship at this level demonstrates...
Employee complacency fuels security issues
Cisco Connect 2014, Sun City - Critical company data is at risk in South Africa as a result of organisations focusing IT security policies and resources more on external threats, such as cybercriminals and hackers, and not enough on the threat from within the...