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CPOs bridge project managers and boardrooms
A common lament from project managers is that they are responsible, held accountable, and yet hold no authority, says Yolandi Nortje, executive of Intuate Group. The introduction of a chief project officer (CPO) – an individual at the executive level, who is...
Emirates offers movies for visually impaired
Emirates, the global connector of people and places, continues to set industry standards by becoming the first airline to introduce Audio Description on movies for visually impaired customers on its inflight entertainment system, ice Digital Widescreen. ice now offers...
Gemalto expands CloudEntr solution
Gemalto is expanding its CloudEntr access management service with a new feature for secure file sharing. CloudEntr is the all-in-one solution for securely managing logins and files in the cloud. Companies using the solution can immediately benefit from the single...
Oxbow wins award from BDS
Bytes Document Solutions (BDS) has named Oxbow the winner of the Double Platinum Partner award, acknowledging the company’s remarkable growth in Xerox sales. This is a new award introduced in the 2013/2014 financial year, for business partners who have exceed certain...
Teraco connects to over 55 countries
Launched two years ago, the Africa Cloud eXchange (ACX) from Teraco Data Centre Environments now provides access to 54 African countries via local and global carriers. ACX aims to provide a secure data centre environment for cloud providers to co-locate and onward...
Vodacom Business adds data centre capacity
Vodacom Business is opening an energy-efficient data centre in Midrand to further its new cloud strategy. The facility is designed to meet ever-increasing demand for hosted services across the country.
Chinese dominate in smartphones
According to data collect by International Data Corporation, Chinese vendors are dominating the smartphone market. The worldwide market grew 23,1% year-over-year in 2Q14, establishing a new single quarter record of 295,3-million shipments.
SAMRAS receives multi-million rand upgrade
Bytes Universal Systems and Altron TMT have committed to a technology refresh of its South African Municipal Resource Administration System (SAMRAS) enterprise resource planning system.Although the investment amount was not revealed, Brian Brougham-Cook, GM: SAMRAS at...
Global recognition for local entrepreneur
Luvuyo Rani, the founder and MD of Silulo Ulutho Technologies, has been nominated for The Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) programme.
World Cup a focus for online threats
The recent World Cup has lead to a peak in malware activity registered in Brazil. Kaspersky Lab blocked 87 776 attempts to launch malicious programs in the country, which is four times higher than second-place Russia. The FIFA World Cup officially kicked off on the 12...
Technology to propel education in Africa
Syspro recently hosted the third DASIK (Development and Strengthening of Industry-driven Knowledge-transfer between developing countries project) Industry Workshop at its headquarters in Sunninghill, Johannesburg. The two-day workshop follows the success of prior...
Rising electricity prices boost solar
Amid rising petrol prices and threats of interest rate hikes, there’s one ballooning cost that solar energy users don’t need to worry about: increasing electricity prices, says Gareth Warner, MD at Solarcentury Africa. To the dismay of householders and businesses...
Digital to revolutionise insurance industy
If, as an industry, we do not transform successfully to being truly digital businesses we will not survive in our current form. This was the overarching message at a recent SSP networking breakfast focussing on the digital evolution and how it is impacting the way...
CPOs bridge project managers and boardrooms
A common lament from project managers is that they are responsible, held accountable, and yet hold no authority, says Yolandi Nortje, executive of Intuate Group. The introduction of a chief project officer (CPO) – an individual at the executive level, who is...
Emirates offers movies for visually impaired
Emirates, the global connector of people and places, continues to set industry standards by becoming the first airline to introduce Audio Description on movies for visually impaired customers on its inflight entertainment system, ice Digital Widescreen. ice now offers...
Gemalto expands CloudEntr solution
Gemalto is expanding its CloudEntr access management service with a new feature for secure file sharing. CloudEntr is the all-in-one solution for securely managing logins and files in the cloud. Companies using the solution can immediately benefit from the single...
Oxbow wins award from BDS
Bytes Document Solutions (BDS) has named Oxbow the winner of the Double Platinum Partner award, acknowledging the company’s remarkable growth in Xerox sales. This is a new award introduced in the 2013/2014 financial year, for business partners who have exceed certain...
Teraco connects to over 55 countries
Launched two years ago, the Africa Cloud eXchange (ACX) from Teraco Data Centre Environments now provides access to 54 African countries via local and global carriers. ACX aims to provide a secure data centre environment for cloud providers to co-locate and onward...
Vodacom Business adds data centre capacity
Vodacom Business is opening an energy-efficient data centre in Midrand to further its new cloud strategy. The facility is designed to meet ever-increasing demand for hosted services across the country.
Chinese dominate in smartphones
According to data collect by International Data Corporation, Chinese vendors are dominating the smartphone market. The worldwide market grew 23,1% year-over-year in 2Q14, establishing a new single quarter record of 295,3-million shipments.