Technology News
Pinnacle comments on FSB decision
Pinnacle Holdings has welcomed the decision by the Financial Services Board (FSB) to close the investigation into possible insider trading which was launched against the company and a few of its directors.
FNB opens pre-orders for Xbox One
Qualifying FNB customers can now pre-order and secure the much anticipated XBox One through FNB’s smart device offer. The deal gives customers the choice between either the XBox One console as a standalone deal or the XBox One Kinect. Each deal includes one or more...
Phoenix takes on Logitech distribution
Phoenix Distribution has inked a distribution deal with peripherals vendor Logitech. The terms of the deal will see Phoenix distributing Logitech’s flagship offerings including mice, keyboards, Web cams, speakers and notebook accessories, in South Africa and across...
Citrix acquires Virtual
Citrix has announced that has acquired stealth start-up Virtual, the only provider of a cloud-based virtualisation platform for iOS and Android.The aim of the acquisition is to increase Citrix's commitment and investment in security, in order to meet the growing...
African sales boost NFS revenue
Sales coming out of Africa now account for 25% of NFS Technology’s sales. NFS Technology is a specialist software company that supplies software for the hospitality industry, including for the conference and video conferencing markets. Nicolette Kruger, country...
DHL uses Pamoja to improve back office
RUBiQ, a cloud solution that is run on cloud platform infrastructure from leading cloud services company Pamoja, has served as the platform of choice to expand DHL’s global back office systems. Preliminary testing has revealed that the project has been successful....
Bytes offers corporate governance solution
Complying with corporate governance regulations is essential for all publicly-traded companies, other companies that do business with them and, increasingly, the public sector. Part of the growing emphasis on corporate governance is driven by regulatory requirements,...
Strategy must drive employee training
South African companies should not treat e-learning as a one-size-fits-all solution for training employees in new business systems and processes, but instead regard it as one tool of many for making their business strategies come to life. That's the word from Lyndsey...
Ricoh named an MPS leader by IDC
Ricoh has again earned a leadership position in worldwide managed print and document services, according to the new IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Print and Document Services 2014 Hardcopy Vendor Assessment — Focus on Managed Workflow Services. Key factors that...
SilverBridge posts positive results
SilverBridge, a provider of software solutions to the financial services industry, has posted solid results with profit after tax of R5,9-million for the year ended 30 June 2014 compared to R2,3-million for the previous year. SilverBridge CEO Jaco Swanepoel is pleased...
Behind the products with Huawei Technology
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei’s head office in Shenzhen - When Huawei talks about becoming a force in the cloud computing market, it is speaking from a position of some strength. The company has a long history as a major player in the telecommunications/carrier and...
New data centre disruptors come to light
Four disruptive factors will force dramatic changes in the data centre (DC) market by year-end 2016, according to Gartner. Gartner says that highly disruptive competition, big cloud provider dominance, economic warfare and nationalism will occur with different...
Dell ready for new IT era
Mark Davison at the Dell Solutions Summit, Brussels – The world as we know it has been redefined by technology and Dell has repositioned itself to fully address the new challenges that customers face in this new era, says Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell. “It’s been...
Pinnacle comments on FSB decision
Pinnacle Holdings has welcomed the decision by the Financial Services Board (FSB) to close the investigation into possible insider trading which was launched against the company and a few of its directors.
FNB opens pre-orders for Xbox One
Qualifying FNB customers can now pre-order and secure the much anticipated XBox One through FNB’s smart device offer. The deal gives customers the choice between either the XBox One console as a standalone deal or the XBox One Kinect. Each deal includes one or more...
Phoenix takes on Logitech distribution
Phoenix Distribution has inked a distribution deal with peripherals vendor Logitech. The terms of the deal will see Phoenix distributing Logitech’s flagship offerings including mice, keyboards, Web cams, speakers and notebook accessories, in South Africa and across...
Citrix acquires Virtual
Citrix has announced that has acquired stealth start-up Virtual, the only provider of a cloud-based virtualisation platform for iOS and Android.The aim of the acquisition is to increase Citrix's commitment and investment in security, in order to meet the growing...
African sales boost NFS revenue
Sales coming out of Africa now account for 25% of NFS Technology’s sales. NFS Technology is a specialist software company that supplies software for the hospitality industry, including for the conference and video conferencing markets. Nicolette Kruger, country...
DHL uses Pamoja to improve back office
RUBiQ, a cloud solution that is run on cloud platform infrastructure from leading cloud services company Pamoja, has served as the platform of choice to expand DHL’s global back office systems. Preliminary testing has revealed that the project has been successful....
Bytes offers corporate governance solution
Complying with corporate governance regulations is essential for all publicly-traded companies, other companies that do business with them and, increasingly, the public sector. Part of the growing emphasis on corporate governance is driven by regulatory requirements,...