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SA sees decline in informal businesses
There has been a massive decline in the number of informal businesses in South Africa, according to the 2013 Survey of Employers and the Self-Employed (SESE).
Flash moves to the mainstream
Flash-based storage continues to move from being an expensive niche technology targeted at a few workloads to a more mainstream technology. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the broader availability of products, a growing level of familiarity with...
Finalists announced for R1m innovation prize
The South African Breweries (SAB) Foundation has selected the finalists in its fourth annual Social Innovation Awards 2014. They will compete for the R1-million first-place prize.
Treasury’s new plans for the Jobs Fund
The National Treasury and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) have announced that, after three successful funding rounds, responsibility for management of the Jobs Fund will be transferred from the DBSA to the newly-established Government Technical Advisory...
Personal storage shipments, revenue grow
The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market was up by 1,5% year-over-year, with almost 17-million units shipped in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry Level Storage...
Red tape to stifle e-passports
Smart electronic passports (e-passports) can fight terrorism and international crime by making it harder to forge travel documents - but can they overcome their most powerful enemies: political opposition and governmental red tape? HIS Technology research indicates...
Adapt IT reports huge year-on-year growth
Adapt IT Holdings Limited has announced its results for the year ended 30 June 2014. “Our growth has exceeded the ICT industry averages with 33,9% turnover growth, 55% headline earning per share growth and total shareholder returns of 332%. This has not only attracted...
Potential protection against Hacienda
A group of journalists has reported the existence of the "Hacienda" spy program. According to this report, five western intelligence agencies are using the Hacienda software to identify vulnerable servers across the world in order to control them and use them for...
Organisational change is way forward for IT
If IT is ever going to have a shot at closing the gap between itself and its customers then there needs to be a fundamental shift from a technological mind set to business mind set, says Kerry Evans, MD Africa at Quintica. At the recent SMEXA event in Johannesburg,...
Keeping an eye on your data
The term big data has become increasingly recognised in the business world over the past few years. While it might have become something of a marketing term, most can appreciate the concept of more smart devices producing data in ever-increasing quantities. The...
Kyocera win BLI awards
Kyocera Document Solutions is delighted to announce that the European Buyer’s Laboratory (BLI) Summer 2014 Pick of the Year award'has been given to the ECOSYS M6026cidn / M6526cidn 26ppm A4 colour MFPs for the third time in this segment, alongside the Highly...
Sea ice thins as Earth warms
New research led by NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle, confirms that springtime snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years, by about a third in the Western Hemisphere and by half near Alaska. The new study, published this...
Traditional AD doesn’t migrate to mobile
The traditional methods used to define and develop desktop applications will not work with mobile application development (AD), according to Gartner. Gartner says that as demand from business units in enterprises puts increasing pressure on IT organisations to deliver...
SA sees decline in informal businesses
There has been a massive decline in the number of informal businesses in South Africa, according to the 2013 Survey of Employers and the Self-Employed (SESE).
Flash moves to the mainstream
Flash-based storage continues to move from being an expensive niche technology targeted at a few workloads to a more mainstream technology. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the broader availability of products, a growing level of familiarity with...
Finalists announced for R1m innovation prize
The South African Breweries (SAB) Foundation has selected the finalists in its fourth annual Social Innovation Awards 2014. They will compete for the R1-million first-place prize.
Treasury’s new plans for the Jobs Fund
The National Treasury and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) have announced that, after three successful funding rounds, responsibility for management of the Jobs Fund will be transferred from the DBSA to the newly-established Government Technical Advisory...
Personal storage shipments, revenue grow
The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market was up by 1,5% year-over-year, with almost 17-million units shipped in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry Level Storage...
Red tape to stifle e-passports
Smart electronic passports (e-passports) can fight terrorism and international crime by making it harder to forge travel documents - but can they overcome their most powerful enemies: political opposition and governmental red tape? HIS Technology research indicates...
Adapt IT reports huge year-on-year growth
Adapt IT Holdings Limited has announced its results for the year ended 30 June 2014. “Our growth has exceeded the ICT industry averages with 33,9% turnover growth, 55% headline earning per share growth and total shareholder returns of 332%. This has not only attracted...