Technology News
Schneider Electric, Zimbabwe sign deal
Schneider Electric, the specialist in energy management, has announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Samansco, a local renewable energy, back-up power and appropriate technology company, to distribute its solar powered portable LED lamps with mobile...
Unlicensed software costs SA billions
The use of unlicensed software in South Africa amounts to over R4-billion, which is costing the economy billions in lost revenue on an annual basis.
Mozilla NSS vulnerability uncovered
McAfee, part of Intel Security, has discovered a critical signature forgery vulnerability in the Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) library. James Walter, director of advanced threat research at Intel Security, says: “Ensuring user security and privacy on the...
CIOs need to influence business budgets
IT is more and more a key component of all business initiatives and is becoming an important part of those budgets, according to Gartner. CIOs must work with business executives and the CFO to ensure that the critical contribution of IT is incorporated early in the...
Small firms don’t secure BYOD
Very small businesses (VSBs) with fewer than 25 employees have the same rate of mobile device adoption as large enterprises. However, most VSBs lack the security awareness, technical expertise and budget needed to properly protect company-issued or employee-owned...
Endpoint security is not dead
Endpoint security software, AV in particular, is getting a bad reputation for being an ineffective security measure. Advanced attacks, increasingly sophisticated threats, and trends such as cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things are changing the security game and...
SA firm launches Blue Penguin platform
South African technology company Keystone Electronic has developed its Blue Penguin CPU module, allowing users to create computers and open source platforms to fit their own specifications. Blue Penguin gives users complete control over how they develop and create...
Modest decline for global HPC sales
Worldwide factory revenue for the high performance computing (HPC) technical server market declined modestly year-over-year by -2,6% to $2,45-billion in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), down from $2,51-billion in the same period of 2013. This is according to the...
LTE subscriptions reach 250m milestone
The number of LTE mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide reached the milestone of 250-million in the first quarter of 2014, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Ovum’s latest update to the World Cellular Data Metrics, which tracks mobile data usage and take-up...
Rugged versus consumer devices
Technology plays a crucial role in any organisation in the advancement of service processes and due to its rapidly evolving nature, companies timeously and continuously remain open and respond to industry changes, upgrades and environmental demands. Technology is...
Cellfind offers reseller programme
Cellfind, a leading mobile technology solutions company, operates a generous incentive programme for business partners that resell its products and services. The rewards programme encompasses Cellfind’s major products and services which includes SMS, premium SMS,...
Infor announces Xi technology platform
Infor has announced Infor XI, an enterprise technology platform for next-generation applications. Building on its current Infor 10x platform, Infor XI will deliver a major step in achieving the company’s vision for cloud applications that address specific industry...
CommVault unveils new consulting service
To tackle a perennial weakness in private cloud implementations that has prevented enterprises from reaping the benefits of modern cloud architectures, CommVault has announced a new consulting service that enables customers to rapidly design data protection services...
Schneider Electric, Zimbabwe sign deal
Schneider Electric, the specialist in energy management, has announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Samansco, a local renewable energy, back-up power and appropriate technology company, to distribute its solar powered portable LED lamps with mobile...
Unlicensed software costs SA billions
The use of unlicensed software in South Africa amounts to over R4-billion, which is costing the economy billions in lost revenue on an annual basis.
Mozilla NSS vulnerability uncovered
McAfee, part of Intel Security, has discovered a critical signature forgery vulnerability in the Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) library. James Walter, director of advanced threat research at Intel Security, says: “Ensuring user security and privacy on the...
CIOs need to influence business budgets
IT is more and more a key component of all business initiatives and is becoming an important part of those budgets, according to Gartner. CIOs must work with business executives and the CFO to ensure that the critical contribution of IT is incorporated early in the...
Small firms don’t secure BYOD
Very small businesses (VSBs) with fewer than 25 employees have the same rate of mobile device adoption as large enterprises. However, most VSBs lack the security awareness, technical expertise and budget needed to properly protect company-issued or employee-owned...
Endpoint security is not dead
Endpoint security software, AV in particular, is getting a bad reputation for being an ineffective security measure. Advanced attacks, increasingly sophisticated threats, and trends such as cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things are changing the security game and...
SA firm launches Blue Penguin platform
South African technology company Keystone Electronic has developed its Blue Penguin CPU module, allowing users to create computers and open source platforms to fit their own specifications. Blue Penguin gives users complete control over how they develop and create...