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Social business software grows collaboration
In today’s operating environment the ability to bring dispersed teams together is becoming a critical business advantage says Wyzetalk. “Teams (focused on, for example, software development or support) often operate from scattered locations, their collaboration...
2014 Rolex award winners announced
Five young visionaries from Africa, India, Europe and the Middle East were announced at London’s leading scientific institution, the Royal Society, as winners of the 2014 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. This year’s Young Laureates – aged 30 and under – impress by both...
Inoxico acquires Robertsons Reports
Risk solutions provider Inoxico announced its acquisition of credit research bureau Robertsons Reports. The announcement formalises an extremely successful collaboration and raises the bar for the provision of credit information in South Africa and the continent....
Power innovation a necessity for SA business
Eskom recently announced that it might reintroduce load shedding as South Africa is experiencing winter. Apart from the inconvenience factor of having no electricity, businesses may have to face the fact that for a few hours each day their staff will be sitting idle...
African insurers to review mobile strategies
In a report by Juergen Weiss based on the Gartner 2013 Global CIO survey, it is predicted that by 2015 at least 40% of the currently existing insurance-related, customer-facing mobile applications will be abandoned due to lack of demand. The reason for this low...
Minister Cwele backs SA Connect
By Kathy Gibson - By 2020, all South Africans should have Internet access. This is the commitment made by Siyabonga Cwele, the new Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, speaking at the Cisco Safari 2014 conference held at the University of Pretoria this...
Dutch company launches first electric joint
Dutch company E-Njoint has invented and developed the world’s first electric joint – and it is selling about 10 000 of them each day. The E-Njoint is disposable and is consumed at dance parties, music events, bars, clubs and so on. Currently, 10 000 e-joints per day...
MTN launches Mobile Money Visa card
MTN South Africa has launched the Mobile Money Visa card, currently available from Pick 'n Pay and Boxer stores. Since the launch of Mobile Money in South Africa in November 2012, more than 2-million customers have registered on the platform, with over R2,5-billion...
6,6bn subscribers drive mobile telecoms
After the trough of 2009 and hesitant growth in 2010, the global mobile telecommunications market has been growing at a moderate pace since 2011. Growth in 2013 stood at 2,4%. “We have observed that, by and large, telecom services are recovering more slowly than the...
Intel re-imagines high-performance computing
Intel has announced new details for its next-generation Intel Xeon Phi processors, code-named Knights Landing, which promise to extend the benefits of code modernisation investments being made for current generation products. These include a new high-speed fabric that...
Bytes solution to looming FATCA deadline
Bytes offers a solution to the looming FATCA compliance deadline.
DCC wins Symantec award
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has been awarded the South African Distributor of the Year award at Symantec’s Vision Symposium 2014, held in Dubai recently. “The Distributor of the Year award is based not just on volume of sales, but the entire Symantec...
Microsoft adds Nokia X2 to portfolio
Microsoft Devices Group has unveiled the Nokia X2, the newest addition to the expanding Nokia X family of affordable smartphones designed to introduce the "next billion" people to the mobile Internet and cloud services. The Nokia X2 represents the rapid evolution of...
Social business software grows collaboration
In today’s operating environment the ability to bring dispersed teams together is becoming a critical business advantage says Wyzetalk. “Teams (focused on, for example, software development or support) often operate from scattered locations, their collaboration...
2014 Rolex award winners announced
Five young visionaries from Africa, India, Europe and the Middle East were announced at London’s leading scientific institution, the Royal Society, as winners of the 2014 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. This year’s Young Laureates – aged 30 and under – impress by both...
Inoxico acquires Robertsons Reports
Risk solutions provider Inoxico announced its acquisition of credit research bureau Robertsons Reports. The announcement formalises an extremely successful collaboration and raises the bar for the provision of credit information in South Africa and the continent....
Power innovation a necessity for SA business
Eskom recently announced that it might reintroduce load shedding as South Africa is experiencing winter. Apart from the inconvenience factor of having no electricity, businesses may have to face the fact that for a few hours each day their staff will be sitting idle...
African insurers to review mobile strategies
In a report by Juergen Weiss based on the Gartner 2013 Global CIO survey, it is predicted that by 2015 at least 40% of the currently existing insurance-related, customer-facing mobile applications will be abandoned due to lack of demand. The reason for this low...
Minister Cwele backs SA Connect
By Kathy Gibson - By 2020, all South Africans should have Internet access. This is the commitment made by Siyabonga Cwele, the new Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, speaking at the Cisco Safari 2014 conference held at the University of Pretoria this...
Dutch company launches first electric joint
Dutch company E-Njoint has invented and developed the world’s first electric joint – and it is selling about 10 000 of them each day. The E-Njoint is disposable and is consumed at dance parties, music events, bars, clubs and so on. Currently, 10 000 e-joints per day...