Technology News
Lowering underwriting risk, protecting the consumer
Auto insurers face a number of challenges in South Africa and perhaps chief among them is the fact that approximately 3,5-million of the 11-million vehicles on the road are insured. The stakes are clearly high for all concerned. Greater access to data can improve the...
Intervate offers CoSign Connector for SharePoint in SA
Digital signage solutions provider ARX has joined forces with Intervate, a T-Systems company, Gold Microsoft Partner and specialist provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions. Intervate will distribute ARX’s flagship CoSign Connector for SharePoint,...
How to harness corporate data effectively
Organisations off all sizes, and across all industries, understand how vital business intelligence (BI) is to the effective and efficient running of the business. Data and information, and the ability to harness these effectively, can be the difference between a...
Storage servers the ideal solution for SMBs
Data is at the heart of any enterprise today, no matter how large or small, writes Anamika Budree, branded sales manager at WD South Africa. Given the rate at which digital content is growing, storage is becoming an increasing concern, and in a connected and...
TaxTim announces one-click tax return filing
As the 21 November tax season deadline fast approaches, taxpayers may find relief knowing that this year there is a new and simpler alternative for submitting their annual tax returns provided by digital tax assistant TaxTim. Until now TaxTim has focussed on assisting...
How the cloud helps SMEs tidy up the IT mess
Cloud backup provider IronTree estimates that one in five South African small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) experience some form of data loss once a year, most commonly as a result of accidents and natural disasters, data corruption, or theft of computing...
Rectron scores 3D printer coup
Rectron has become the first mainstream IT distributor in South Africa to add 3D printers to its product line-up.
It’s official: tablets are here to stay
South African IT decision-makers agree with their global counterparts that tablets are becoming an integral part of their IT offering, with 90% or more of the workforce now using tablets.
Spammers add Ebola twist to ‘Nigerian letters’
In September spammers produced topical new versions of the old “Nigerian letter” scam, this time based on the Ebola virus. According to Kaspersky Lab experts, several mass mailings exploited this theme. A large part of the major theme mailings promoted products and...
Cell C debuts Lumia 730
Microsoft has announced the South African availability of the Lumia 730 Dual SIM, exclusively with Cell C. The device will be available from next week at Cell C stores countrywide for just R229 per month on a SmartChat 1GB contract. The recommended cash retail price...
AccTech team wins Tuks IT final year competition
Local business solutions provider, AccTech Systems, has sponsored a group of students from the University of Pretoria's School of Information Technology to develop a software solution as part of their final-year course. The team won the first place overall as well as...
Protect your bottom line and your reputation
In today’s highly regulated financial services industry, compliance with privacy and security regulations is crucial to risk avoidance. Monitoring customers’ transactions continuously, and using their historical data to paint a complete picture of activity, is one way...
Ericsson opens up Bowser, OpenWebRTC
Ericsson Research it is releasing its web browser Bowser and the underlying framework OpenWebRTC as free and open source. The intention is to further quicken the pace of innovation in the WebRTC community by providing developers with more choice and flexibility....
Lowering underwriting risk, protecting the consumer
Auto insurers face a number of challenges in South Africa and perhaps chief among them is the fact that approximately 3,5-million of the 11-million vehicles on the road are insured. The stakes are clearly high for all concerned. Greater access to data can improve the...
Intervate offers CoSign Connector for SharePoint in SA
Digital signage solutions provider ARX has joined forces with Intervate, a T-Systems company, Gold Microsoft Partner and specialist provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions. Intervate will distribute ARX’s flagship CoSign Connector for SharePoint,...
How to harness corporate data effectively
Organisations off all sizes, and across all industries, understand how vital business intelligence (BI) is to the effective and efficient running of the business. Data and information, and the ability to harness these effectively, can be the difference between a...
Storage servers the ideal solution for SMBs
Data is at the heart of any enterprise today, no matter how large or small, writes Anamika Budree, branded sales manager at WD South Africa. Given the rate at which digital content is growing, storage is becoming an increasing concern, and in a connected and...
TaxTim announces one-click tax return filing
As the 21 November tax season deadline fast approaches, taxpayers may find relief knowing that this year there is a new and simpler alternative for submitting their annual tax returns provided by digital tax assistant TaxTim. Until now TaxTim has focussed on assisting...
How the cloud helps SMEs tidy up the IT mess
Cloud backup provider IronTree estimates that one in five South African small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) experience some form of data loss once a year, most commonly as a result of accidents and natural disasters, data corruption, or theft of computing...
Rectron scores 3D printer coup
Rectron has become the first mainstream IT distributor in South Africa to add 3D printers to its product line-up.