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Rockefeller Foundation, EOH to grow skills
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a $1-million grant to EOH to spur job creation in the ICT sector for South Africa’s disadvantaged youth. The grant comes to support EOH’s Youth Job Creation Initiative launched in 2012 which aims at stimulating youth job...
DiData launches mobile cloud service
Dimension Data has launched Enterprise Mobility-as-a-Service (EMaaS), signalling its intent to provide a suite of cloud-based end-user computing services on a global basis. EMaaS establishes the platform for the Group’s future initiatives that will see Dimension Data...
Universities to leverage procurement savings
Higher education buying departments expect to save hundreds of millions of rand through a new e-procurement and travel management platform. Purchasing Consortium Southern Africa (Purco SA), the higher education procurement consortium, concluded an e-procurement master...
SA firms should look to Africa
Due to Africa being home to seven of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world, the continent is quickly becoming top-of-mind for many global businesses. According to Sumesh Rahavendra, head of marketing for DHL Express sub-Saharan (SSA), while the growing...
Xpertek Contact, Turnstyle partner on WiFi
Xpertek Contact, the customer experience management division of the Xpertek Group, has partnered with Canadian-based Turnstyle Solutions to launch Turnstyle’s cloud-based solution and products in southern Africa. Turnstyle develops a range of social WiFi,...
Successful businesses will need video tech
Not many technologies have enjoyed such a fast-paced growth in the past few years as video conferencing – most noticeable as part of an overall unified communications platform. According to Nicolette Kruger, country manager of NFS Technology, the developer and...
Compliment business calls with SMS
The evolution of cellular technology has greatly impacted when, where and how people interact and communicate with each other. Smartphone penetration is at roughly 30% in the South African market, set to grow to 45% by 2017 giving more and more South Africans easy...
Education department endorses EOH initiative
The Department of Higher Education and Training is responsible for post-school education and training in South Africa, with oversight of, among others, the universities and universities of technology, as well as technical and vocational education and training for FET...
Security is no longer a catch-up game
Up until now, security has been mostly a catch-up game. A vulnerability is discovered, a patch is issued and applied, and so on and so forth. However, as with all catch-up games, it will inevitably fail. By the time a new threat has taken hold, or the vulnerability...
AccTech Systems wins Microsoft award
AccTech Systems today proudly announced that it has won the 2014 Microsoft 'Country Partner of the Year' award for South Africa. The company was honoured amongst a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of...
Wearable tech for animals to reach $2,6bn
Wearable technology for humans is all the rage, writes Dr Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEx. As “the next big thing”, it involves head-on clashes between some of the largest companies on the planet. Those interested in such technologies would therefore be wise to...
MTN partners with simfy on music streaming
MTN South Africa has become the first mobile operator in the country to launch a streaming music service following an exclusive partnership with South African-based simfy Africa. For R49 per month, MTN customers will be able to listen to all of their favourite music...
Jasco delivers Nokia Networks to SA
Jasco has been appointed as a value-added reseller (VAR) of Nokia Networks Mobile Broadband (MBB) and wireless access solutions to the southern African market. The move will enable Nokia Networks to leverage additional channels to market to take advantage of...
Rockefeller Foundation, EOH to grow skills
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a $1-million grant to EOH to spur job creation in the ICT sector for South Africa’s disadvantaged youth. The grant comes to support EOH’s Youth Job Creation Initiative launched in 2012 which aims at stimulating youth job...
DiData launches mobile cloud service
Dimension Data has launched Enterprise Mobility-as-a-Service (EMaaS), signalling its intent to provide a suite of cloud-based end-user computing services on a global basis. EMaaS establishes the platform for the Group’s future initiatives that will see Dimension Data...
Universities to leverage procurement savings
Higher education buying departments expect to save hundreds of millions of rand through a new e-procurement and travel management platform. Purchasing Consortium Southern Africa (Purco SA), the higher education procurement consortium, concluded an e-procurement master...
SA firms should look to Africa
Due to Africa being home to seven of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world, the continent is quickly becoming top-of-mind for many global businesses. According to Sumesh Rahavendra, head of marketing for DHL Express sub-Saharan (SSA), while the growing...
Xpertek Contact, Turnstyle partner on WiFi
Xpertek Contact, the customer experience management division of the Xpertek Group, has partnered with Canadian-based Turnstyle Solutions to launch Turnstyle’s cloud-based solution and products in southern Africa. Turnstyle develops a range of social WiFi,...
Successful businesses will need video tech
Not many technologies have enjoyed such a fast-paced growth in the past few years as video conferencing – most noticeable as part of an overall unified communications platform. According to Nicolette Kruger, country manager of NFS Technology, the developer and...
Compliment business calls with SMS
The evolution of cellular technology has greatly impacted when, where and how people interact and communicate with each other. Smartphone penetration is at roughly 30% in the South African market, set to grow to 45% by 2017 giving more and more South Africans easy...