Technology News
SAP roll-out set to digitise Zambia
Zimbabwean value-added reseller Twenty Third Century Systems (TTCS) has signed the biggest-ever SAP public sector contract in Africa – to digitise many of the Zambian government’s functions.
Internet Slowdown set for 10 Sept
On 10 September, the battle for the Net will commence – with Internet stakeholders taking on US cable giants to prevent them from undermining Internet neutrality.
Phishing still enjoys a high success rate
Phishing continues to be an effective tactic for infiltrating enterprise networks, according to the McAfee Labs Threat Report: August 2014. Testing business users’ ability to detect online scams, the McAfee Phishing Quiz uncovered that 80% of its participants failed...
Employees paint the future work landscape
Individual employees, and the technology they uniquely choose, are the main factors shaping the new workplace, according to a new Citrix study.
Phablets to overtake portables in 2014
According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device Tracker, worldwide phablet shipments (smartphones with screen sizes from 5,5-inches to less than 7-inches) will reach 175-million units worldwide in...
Yuppiechef is best e-commerce site in SA
Yuppiechef.com has scooped the “Best eCommerce Site in South Africa” award for the fifth consecutive year – beating Woolworths, Groupon, Takealot and Kalahari to the finish line.
POPI and the latest celebrity hacks
The recent release of nude pictures of over 100 celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst, has raised questions over the security of personal information being stored in cloud Internet services, as hackers claim to have accessed the...
Lumia 930 smartphone debuts in SA
Unveiled at Microsoft’s Build 2014 conference earlier this year, the new high-end Lumia 930 is now available in South Africa. With an elegant aluminium frame , polycarbonate back and sculpted glass, the Lumia 930 features a 20-megapixel PureView camera with ZEISS...
TruTeq Wireless opens offices in Australia
TruTeq Wireless, a South African company that supplies over 39 GSM and CDMA network operators in 35 countries in Africa, Europe and the Pacific, has recently opened an office near Brisbane in Australia. Tjaart van der Walt, MD of TruTeq Wireless, says the new office...
Icasa proposes new interconnect rates
Icasa (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) yesterday published its proposed new mobile interconnect rates, to be implemented from 1 October 2014. The first drop will be about 20%, to 16 cents, from March 2015. Thereafter rates should fall to 12 cents...
iWiFi harnesses the power of social media
Wireless access is popping up everywhere, and while many small business owners feel obliged to offer such a service, very few manage to convert this expense into something useful to help generate sales and new customers. That is until iWiFi came along. This new...
Xerox wins award at Africa Print Durban
The popular annual Africa Print Regional Expo, held in Durban from 26 to 27 August at the International Convention Centre, was a huge success for platinum sponsor Xerox, represented locally by Bytes Document Solutions. The company won the Africa Print Award for Best...
Will Pinnacle take legal action?
Pinnacle Technology Holdings is “considering its legal position” in relation to the bribery charges that were brought against its executive director Takalani Tshivhase – and then later withdrawn due to insufficient evidence.
SAP roll-out set to digitise Zambia
Zimbabwean value-added reseller Twenty Third Century Systems (TTCS) has signed the biggest-ever SAP public sector contract in Africa – to digitise many of the Zambian government’s functions.
Internet Slowdown set for 10 Sept
On 10 September, the battle for the Net will commence – with Internet stakeholders taking on US cable giants to prevent them from undermining Internet neutrality.
Phishing still enjoys a high success rate
Phishing continues to be an effective tactic for infiltrating enterprise networks, according to the McAfee Labs Threat Report: August 2014. Testing business users’ ability to detect online scams, the McAfee Phishing Quiz uncovered that 80% of its participants failed...
Employees paint the future work landscape
Individual employees, and the technology they uniquely choose, are the main factors shaping the new workplace, according to a new Citrix study.
Phablets to overtake portables in 2014
According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device Tracker, worldwide phablet shipments (smartphones with screen sizes from 5,5-inches to less than 7-inches) will reach 175-million units worldwide in...
Yuppiechef is best e-commerce site in SA
Yuppiechef.com has scooped the “Best eCommerce Site in South Africa” award for the fifth consecutive year – beating Woolworths, Groupon, Takealot and Kalahari to the finish line.
POPI and the latest celebrity hacks
The recent release of nude pictures of over 100 celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst, has raised questions over the security of personal information being stored in cloud Internet services, as hackers claim to have accessed the...