Technology News
Fingerprint technology to boost e-commerce
Apple's iPhone 5S and the recently launched Samsung S5 have impressed consumers with the new biometric fingerprint authentication technology which the manufacturers have added to the models. According to Simon Leps, CEO of Fontera Digital Works, although many users...
Dac rolls out Nintex Workflow for customer
Dac Systems, a Proudly South African national provider of turnkey solutions based on Microsoft products, has successfully integrated Nintex Workflow in order to address critical technical requirements at an established market leading financial and investment house....
Sci-Bono learners become employees at Dell
Three former learners of the Dell ICT Centre at Sci-Bono are now full-time employees at the Dell office in Johannesburg. Martin Tshabalala, Tsundzuka Matthews and Mongezi Hadebe could never have imagined that they would one day be employees at Dell South Africa. Even...
Intel selects Onyx for trade fair
Onyx Display Media will be demonstrating its ground-breaking Patent Pending Onyx Glass solution, supported by Intel technology, at Venditalia 2014 in Milan. Intel has formally announced that is has selected South African display technology pioneer, Onyx Display Media,...
High-level automation affects employment
Factories, along with process automation, has developed increasingly, with smart machines rapidly changing the industry. Within certain key industry sectors, the development trend is gradually moving away from semi-automated processes towards highly automated...
EMC announces new entry level VNXe
EMC Corporation has added new products and capabilities to the industry-leading VNX Family of hybrid storage solutions, including a new entry-level VNXe3200 storage array. The new VNXe3200 is 3X more efficient than previous VNXe solutions, and is based on the VNX...
Oracle introduces Solaris 11.2
Oracle Solaris 11.2 is a complete, integrated and open platform engineered for large-scale enterprise cloud environments. It combines OpenStack, SDN technology, clustering, and virtualisation with a proven enterprise-class OS, all in a single product. Customers can...
Customer satisfaction surveys are important
“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” These words, by the acclaimed business author, speaker and former management professor, Dr Michael LeBoeuf, mean that by ensuring that your customers are happy the first time they conduct business with you,...
Kaspersky Android solution scores top marks
Kaspersky Internet Security for Android earned top marks in the independent testing of mobile security products conducted by AV-Test in March 2014. Kaspersky Lab’s solution successfully blocked all threats and its performance received the highest rating from the test...
Enslin moves up in SAP shuffle
South Africa's Robert Enslin has been appointed to SAP’s executive board, along with Bernd Leukert, as the company announces that Dr Vishal Sikka, executive board member for products and innovation, is to step down for personal reasons, effective immediately. Enslin...
East Africa sees declining PC shipments
PC shipments to East Africa suffered a huge year-on-year decline of 31,6% in the first quarter of 2014. According to a preliminary report by International Data Corporation (IDC) that covers Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia, the record quarterly decline saw...
White River Printers buys Xerox press
White River Printers, based in Nelspruit and one of the largest printing shops in the Lowveld, has bought a Xerox Colour J75 digital press from Lowveld Office Automation. The sale was concluded at the Africa Print Expo held in Nelspruit earlier this year. White River...
Analytics mitigates financial crimes
Last week, the Reserve Bank slapped South Africa’s big four banks with heavy penalties for not implementing regulations to control money laundering and combat the financing of terrorism. To be clear, the banks were not accused of facilitating transactions involving...
Fingerprint technology to boost e-commerce
Apple's iPhone 5S and the recently launched Samsung S5 have impressed consumers with the new biometric fingerprint authentication technology which the manufacturers have added to the models. According to Simon Leps, CEO of Fontera Digital Works, although many users...
Dac rolls out Nintex Workflow for customer
Dac Systems, a Proudly South African national provider of turnkey solutions based on Microsoft products, has successfully integrated Nintex Workflow in order to address critical technical requirements at an established market leading financial and investment house....
Sci-Bono learners become employees at Dell
Three former learners of the Dell ICT Centre at Sci-Bono are now full-time employees at the Dell office in Johannesburg. Martin Tshabalala, Tsundzuka Matthews and Mongezi Hadebe could never have imagined that they would one day be employees at Dell South Africa. Even...
Intel selects Onyx for trade fair
Onyx Display Media will be demonstrating its ground-breaking Patent Pending Onyx Glass solution, supported by Intel technology, at Venditalia 2014 in Milan. Intel has formally announced that is has selected South African display technology pioneer, Onyx Display Media,...
High-level automation affects employment
Factories, along with process automation, has developed increasingly, with smart machines rapidly changing the industry. Within certain key industry sectors, the development trend is gradually moving away from semi-automated processes towards highly automated...
EMC announces new entry level VNXe
EMC Corporation has added new products and capabilities to the industry-leading VNX Family of hybrid storage solutions, including a new entry-level VNXe3200 storage array. The new VNXe3200 is 3X more efficient than previous VNXe solutions, and is based on the VNX...
Oracle introduces Solaris 11.2
Oracle Solaris 11.2 is a complete, integrated and open platform engineered for large-scale enterprise cloud environments. It combines OpenStack, SDN technology, clustering, and virtualisation with a proven enterprise-class OS, all in a single product. Customers can...