Technology News
Modest increase for EMC
EMC has reported a first quarter 2014 revenue of $5,5-billion, an increase of 2% compared with the same quarter last year. First-quarter GAAP net income attributable to EMC was $392-million and first-quarter GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was $0,19....
Record quarter for Apple due to iPhone sales
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended 29 March 2014. The company posted quarterly revenue of $45,6-billion and quarterly net profit of $10,2-billion, or $11,62 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of...
Strong growth for Facebook in Q2
Facebook has reported positive financial results for the quarter ended 31 March 2014. "Facebook's business is strong and growing, and this quarter was a great start to 2014," says Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. "We've made some long term bets on the future...
Qlik to offer free version of QlikView.Next
Presenting to over 1200 attendees at its Global Partner Conference, Anthony Deighton, chief technology officer of Qlik, a leader in user-driven business intelligence (BI), announced that the company will release a free desktop version of QlikView.Next via Personal...
Telkom upgrade good news for local industry
The announcement by Telkom recently that it plans to replace almost 300 of its unprofitable copper-based exchanges with wireless 3G and LTE services is good news for the telecommunications industry. If anything, it’s an attractive offering that will not only improve...
New BBBEE codes to be implemented soon
The amended BBBEE Codes are still a major talking point. Despite a short six month delay, implementing the Amended Codes needs to begin as soon as possible, says Keith Levenstein, CEO of BEE advisory firm, EconoBEE. Some years ago when the ICT codes were issued, many...
Dell PowerEdge VRTX sees speedy adoption
Dell has announced that PowerEdge VRTX, the first integrated IT solution designed specifically for office environments, is seeing accelerated adoption by customers around the world. This revolutionary converged infrastructure solution simplifies office IT by removing...
Metrofile launches personal archive product
Metrofile Records Management has launched the Metrofile Personal Archive (MPA), an electronic document management system for SMME and SOHO users. According to Mike Grey, GM of Solutions at Metrofile Records Management, it's estimated that managers spend an average of...
Marval announces Xtraction R14.1
Marval South Africa, a provider of service management (SM) solutions, education and consultancy, has recently announced the release of Xtraction R14.1 – a dashboard and reporting technology developed specifically for SM environments. This reporting tool complements a...
African content to boost connectivity growth
There’s a new wave of growth on the horizon for African Internet companies and it’s being driven by an innovative worldwide phenomenon called remote peering. NAPAfrica - Africa’s fastest growing neutral internet exchange point (IXP) – is the first African exchange to...
HDS cloud storage boosts business-defined IT
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) has launched new technology to accelerate customer success with business-defined IT – a closer linking of a company’s business and technology objectives that demands a more responsive IT foundation. Dubbed “Continuous Cloud...
Data boom, Mobile Money drive MTN revenues
MTN’s data revenues have increased 43,3% for the first quarter of 2014. The total number of subscribers grew 1,1% from December 2013, while Mobile Money subscribers continued to grow, reaching 16,6-million. MTN Group president and CEO Sifiso Dabengwa comments: “MTN...
VMware sees 14% growth in Q1
VMware has announced financial results for the first quarter of 2014. Revenues for the first quarter were $1,36-billion, an increase of 14% from the first quarter of 2013. Excluding revenues attributable to Pivotal and all divestitures that occurred in 2013, revenues...
Modest increase for EMC
EMC has reported a first quarter 2014 revenue of $5,5-billion, an increase of 2% compared with the same quarter last year. First-quarter GAAP net income attributable to EMC was $392-million and first-quarter GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was $0,19....
Record quarter for Apple due to iPhone sales
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended 29 March 2014. The company posted quarterly revenue of $45,6-billion and quarterly net profit of $10,2-billion, or $11,62 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of...
Strong growth for Facebook in Q2
Facebook has reported positive financial results for the quarter ended 31 March 2014. "Facebook's business is strong and growing, and this quarter was a great start to 2014," says Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. "We've made some long term bets on the future...
Qlik to offer free version of QlikView.Next
Presenting to over 1200 attendees at its Global Partner Conference, Anthony Deighton, chief technology officer of Qlik, a leader in user-driven business intelligence (BI), announced that the company will release a free desktop version of QlikView.Next via Personal...
Telkom upgrade good news for local industry
The announcement by Telkom recently that it plans to replace almost 300 of its unprofitable copper-based exchanges with wireless 3G and LTE services is good news for the telecommunications industry. If anything, it’s an attractive offering that will not only improve...
New BBBEE codes to be implemented soon
The amended BBBEE Codes are still a major talking point. Despite a short six month delay, implementing the Amended Codes needs to begin as soon as possible, says Keith Levenstein, CEO of BEE advisory firm, EconoBEE. Some years ago when the ICT codes were issued, many...
Dell PowerEdge VRTX sees speedy adoption
Dell has announced that PowerEdge VRTX, the first integrated IT solution designed specifically for office environments, is seeing accelerated adoption by customers around the world. This revolutionary converged infrastructure solution simplifies office IT by removing...