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Massive EMEA growth for integrated infrastructure
The integrated infrastructure and platforms market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) recorded vendor revenue of $649-million in 2Q14, up 51% over the same period a year ago. The market generated nearly 225 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments during...
Use your vote to improve the channel
ICT resellers are urged to use the power of their vote in the 2014 Channelwise Awards to ensure they get the best possible products and services from their vendors and distributors. Online voting for SME and Consumer resellers in the 2014 Channelwise Awards is now...
Different businesses worry about different threats
Industrial and production businesses have security priorities that are drastically different from service-based industries. Industrial sectors can value (or under-value) certain types of data far differently than other businesses, and even amongst different industrial...
Users really are bringing their own devices
Bring your own device (BYOD) is definitely taking off, with approximately 40% of US consumers who work for large enterprises using their personally owned smartphone, desktop or laptop daily for some form of work purposes, according to a recent survey by Gartner.
Strong growth for connected devices
The global market for broadband consumer premises equipment (CPE) will end 2014 with the highest growth in revenues since 2010, increasing by 20% from 2013 to reach nearly $11-billion. According to HIS Technology, revenue this year is set to expand by a whopping...
Services operating income increased in 2013
In a newly released study, International Data Corporation (IDC) announced that services operating income for the entire services market increased from 12,3% in 2012 to 13,4% in 2013. Vendors most commonly attributed this increase to the reduction of their labour cost...
This POODLE bites
POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) is a vulnerability that enables attackers to gain access to things like passwords, cookies and users private account data on a website. It exploits the outdated SSL 3.0 security protocol. Says Bodo Möller, Google...
Advanced analytics is a top priority
Advanced analytics is a top business priority, fuelled by the need to make advanced analysis accessible to more users and broaden the insight into the business. According to Gartner, advanced analytics is the fastest-growing segment of the business intelligence (BI)...
ESET launches Smart Security 8 and NOD32 Antivirus 8
ESET Southern Africa has announced the latest versions of its flagship security software products: ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8 and ESET Smart Security 8. The latest lineup includes Botnet Protection and Enhanced Exploit Blocker that protects against exploits and offer...
Ricoh Clickable Paper shortlisted for FutureBook Innovation Awards
The Booksellers’ FutureBook Innovation Awards 2014 has shortlisted Ricoh Clickable Paper, the interactive print solution which unites print and digital seamlessly through a mobile app. Ricoh Clickable Paper can make just about any printed item interactive with...
Rivonia Trial memorabilia for sale on Gumtree
Two cupboards built specifically for the Rivonia Trial have gone on sale on Gumtree.co.za. The cupboards were purchased by the seller at an auction in 2009, although the documents from the trial were subsequently bought and donated to the Brenthurst Library. The...
Crowdsourcing to understand DNA
What do the DNA in Australian seaweed, Amazon River water, tropical plants, and forest soil all have in common? Lots, say scientists.
Wearable sensors set for seven-fold increase
Driven by rising demand for fitness and health monitoring features as well as by improved user interfaces, shipments of sensors used in wearable electronic devices will rise by a factor of seven from 2013 through 2019. According to HIS Technology, the worldwide market...
Massive EMEA growth for integrated infrastructure
The integrated infrastructure and platforms market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) recorded vendor revenue of $649-million in 2Q14, up 51% over the same period a year ago. The market generated nearly 225 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments during...
Use your vote to improve the channel
ICT resellers are urged to use the power of their vote in the 2014 Channelwise Awards to ensure they get the best possible products and services from their vendors and distributors. Online voting for SME and Consumer resellers in the 2014 Channelwise Awards is now...
Different businesses worry about different threats
Industrial and production businesses have security priorities that are drastically different from service-based industries. Industrial sectors can value (or under-value) certain types of data far differently than other businesses, and even amongst different industrial...
Users really are bringing their own devices
Bring your own device (BYOD) is definitely taking off, with approximately 40% of US consumers who work for large enterprises using their personally owned smartphone, desktop or laptop daily for some form of work purposes, according to a recent survey by Gartner.
Strong growth for connected devices
The global market for broadband consumer premises equipment (CPE) will end 2014 with the highest growth in revenues since 2010, increasing by 20% from 2013 to reach nearly $11-billion. According to HIS Technology, revenue this year is set to expand by a whopping...
Services operating income increased in 2013
In a newly released study, International Data Corporation (IDC) announced that services operating income for the entire services market increased from 12,3% in 2012 to 13,4% in 2013. Vendors most commonly attributed this increase to the reduction of their labour cost...
This POODLE bites
POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) is a vulnerability that enables attackers to gain access to things like passwords, cookies and users private account data on a website. It exploits the outdated SSL 3.0 security protocol. Says Bodo Möller, Google...