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DHL Express forecast to grow in Africa
Despite a challenging global economic environment, import and export trade volumes for DHL Express sub-Saharan Africa remain strong and are forecast to grow. This is according to Charles Brewer, MD for DHL Express sub-Saharan Africa, who adds, “The first half of 2014,...
Stand out with optimised WFM
In a market in which business success hinges on acquiring the right service from the right provider at the right time, competitive advantage means everything. Service providers focused on technology to streamline business management processes believe the area of...
RS, Allied Electronics expand offering
RS Components (RS) and Allied Electronics (Allied) have signed an agreement with ROHM Semiconductor that positions RS and Allied as an authorised global distribution partner of the electronic component vendor. RS and Allied hold a sizeable inventory of several hundred...
NetTraveler gets 10th anniversary makeover
In 2014 the actors behind global cyber-espionage campaign Operation NetTraveler celebrate 10 years of activity. Although the earliest samples appeared to have been compiled in 2005, certain indicators point to 2004 as the year when the malicious activity started. For...
Schneider showcases PV Box ST
Schneider Electric will showcase the organisation’s new PV Box ST at the Xperience Efficiency event in Johannesburg on 26 and 27 August 2014. The New PV Box ST is a containerised plug and play conversion system designed for centralised photovoltaic (PV) power plants...
Innovative networks drive mobile broadband
Kathy Gibson reports from SATNAC 2014 - Setting up the networks that connect the world is just the beginning of the dream to provide mobile broadband for all. Tumi Sekhukhune, vice-president: strategy, marketing and communications at Ericsson, agrees with the...
Universal broadband creates a better society
Kathy Gibson reports from SATNAC 2014 - South Africa’s vision is to connect all people, schools and clinics - with many of the first deliverables due as soon as 2015. Mikko Lavanti, chief customer officer at Coriant, points out that the challenges to achieving these...
System outages for Standard Bank
Standard Bank this week released a statement wishing to apologise to customers who experienced disruption of ATM functionality, debit and credit card purchases, Internet banking and telephone and app services.
Alcatel-Lucent upgrades SAT-3/WASC cable
SAT-3/WASC/SAFE parties and Alcatel-Lucent have completed the fourth upgrade of the SAT-3/WASC undersea cable system, which went live during the first half of 2014. This latest upgrade has doubled the current system capacity, further positioning SAT-3/WASC as a...
Telkom invests in cable upgrade
Telkom’s chief technology officer, Alphonzo Samuels, has announced that the company has contributed to the fourth upgrade of SAT-3/WASC/SAFE submarine cable system. “This cable upgrade further addresses the global capacity demands such as fast internet connectivity,...
Gartner names Check Point as UTM leader
Check Point Software Technologies, a leader in securing the Internet, recently announced that it is again positioned as a Leader in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (UTM). This is the fourth consecutive year that Check Point has been named...
Seagate ships first 8Tb hard drive
Seagate Technology has announced that it is shipping the world’s first 8Tb hard disk drive. An important step forward in storage, the 8Tb hard disk drive provides scale-out data infrastructures with supersized-capacity, energy-efficiency and the lowest total cost of...
KZN learners provided with ICT training
A total of 25 rural KwaZulu-Natal students – all of them recent school-leavers – have successfully completed NQF Level 4 learnerships in ICT technical support, an invaluable qualification given the current employment crisis. The programme is the result of a...
DHL Express forecast to grow in Africa
Despite a challenging global economic environment, import and export trade volumes for DHL Express sub-Saharan Africa remain strong and are forecast to grow. This is according to Charles Brewer, MD for DHL Express sub-Saharan Africa, who adds, “The first half of 2014,...
Stand out with optimised WFM
In a market in which business success hinges on acquiring the right service from the right provider at the right time, competitive advantage means everything. Service providers focused on technology to streamline business management processes believe the area of...
RS, Allied Electronics expand offering
RS Components (RS) and Allied Electronics (Allied) have signed an agreement with ROHM Semiconductor that positions RS and Allied as an authorised global distribution partner of the electronic component vendor. RS and Allied hold a sizeable inventory of several hundred...
NetTraveler gets 10th anniversary makeover
In 2014 the actors behind global cyber-espionage campaign Operation NetTraveler celebrate 10 years of activity. Although the earliest samples appeared to have been compiled in 2005, certain indicators point to 2004 as the year when the malicious activity started. For...
Schneider showcases PV Box ST
Schneider Electric will showcase the organisation’s new PV Box ST at the Xperience Efficiency event in Johannesburg on 26 and 27 August 2014. The New PV Box ST is a containerised plug and play conversion system designed for centralised photovoltaic (PV) power plants...
Innovative networks drive mobile broadband
Kathy Gibson reports from SATNAC 2014 - Setting up the networks that connect the world is just the beginning of the dream to provide mobile broadband for all. Tumi Sekhukhune, vice-president: strategy, marketing and communications at Ericsson, agrees with the...
Universal broadband creates a better society
Kathy Gibson reports from SATNAC 2014 - South Africa’s vision is to connect all people, schools and clinics - with many of the first deliverables due as soon as 2015. Mikko Lavanti, chief customer officer at Coriant, points out that the challenges to achieving these...