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Application optimisation can halve costs
Optimising application development and maintenance (ADM) can cut costs by more than 50%, according to research by Gartner. Sourcing managers can develop and implement sourcing strategies, metrics and processes to help CIOs cut costs in half by eliminating legacy...
Massive bill of materials for Samsung’s S5
The latest member of Samsung’s popular line of Galaxy smartphones ups the ante on features - and on cost - with the S5’s discrete-intensive design yielding a high bill of materials (BOM). The Samsung Galaxy S5 with 32Gb of NAND flash memory carries a BOM of $251.52,...
Mobile Touch winners announced
Clickatell has announced the winners of the second Annual Mobile Touch Awards, celebrating companies that have used mobile SMS in creative and innovative ways to improve the lives of those around them. The winners and finalists come from a variety of industries and...
Africa contributes to Internet governance
Remote hubs in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos and Tunis will feed Africa's contributions in realtime to the NETmundial global multi-stakeholder meeting on the future of Internet governance, which will be held in São Paulo on 23 and 24 April 2014. To date, a total of 33...
DCC offers new Dell Inspiron notebooks
Take design on the road with the new Dell Inspiron range from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). Featuring high quality graphics and visuals, plenty of storage and the latest Intel Core processors, the Inspiron 3737 and 3537 notebooks have enough power to...
Samsung curved UHD TVs now on pre-order
Samsung Electronics South Africa is introducing the world’s first Curved UHD TV to South African consumers, who now have the opportunity to pre-order their television from 11 April 2014 to 11 May 2014. According to Ansgar Pabst, business lead for TV/AV, Samsung...
Manage mobility in the cloud with CA Tech
CA Southern Africa has revealed that CA Technologies has launched the industry’s first, comprehensive Management Cloud for Mobility. This portfolio – delivered as a cloud service - enables enterprises to manage, secure and grow their businesses, increase productivity...
Accenture, SAP expand global alliance
Accenture and Ariba, an SAP AG company, are expanding their global alliance through a first-of-its-kind agreement to offer new cloud-based solutions designed to transform the delivery of procurement and finance and accounting (F&A) business services to clients....
Crabtree under new leadership
Power Technologies is proud to announce the appointment of James Calmeyer as CEO for its operation Crabtree. The operation will once again function as an autonomous, stand-alone company and will conduct its business from the combined manufacturing, sales and...
SAP Africa announces Francophone Africa MD
Gilles Lepretre has been appointed as SAP Africa’s MD for all French-speaking Africa countries. The appointment comes at a time that sees the company driving significant growth in line with its 2014 goals for the region. In his new role, Lepretre will lead the newly...
New passwords not the solution …
In the wake of the Heartbleed vulnerability, some vendors are suggesting users change their passwords - but this won't protect them from further attacks, according to one expert. Earlier this month, the Heartbleed bug was discovered. Since then, many companies and a...
SASSA to re-issue grants tender
The Constitutional Court has upheld the ruling that the SASSA tender awarded to Net1 UEPS company Cash Paymaster Services is invalid, and has ordered the social security agency to offer the contract for tender again. The Constitutional Court has ordered the following...
PC market stabilises in EMEA
PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) reached 21,8-million units in the first quarter of 2014, which resulted in a decline of 1,1% in comparison with the same quarter last year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The EMEA market...
Application optimisation can halve costs
Optimising application development and maintenance (ADM) can cut costs by more than 50%, according to research by Gartner. Sourcing managers can develop and implement sourcing strategies, metrics and processes to help CIOs cut costs in half by eliminating legacy...
Massive bill of materials for Samsung’s S5
The latest member of Samsung’s popular line of Galaxy smartphones ups the ante on features - and on cost - with the S5’s discrete-intensive design yielding a high bill of materials (BOM). The Samsung Galaxy S5 with 32Gb of NAND flash memory carries a BOM of $251.52,...
Mobile Touch winners announced
Clickatell has announced the winners of the second Annual Mobile Touch Awards, celebrating companies that have used mobile SMS in creative and innovative ways to improve the lives of those around them. The winners and finalists come from a variety of industries and...
Africa contributes to Internet governance
Remote hubs in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos and Tunis will feed Africa's contributions in realtime to the NETmundial global multi-stakeholder meeting on the future of Internet governance, which will be held in São Paulo on 23 and 24 April 2014. To date, a total of 33...
DCC offers new Dell Inspiron notebooks
Take design on the road with the new Dell Inspiron range from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). Featuring high quality graphics and visuals, plenty of storage and the latest Intel Core processors, the Inspiron 3737 and 3537 notebooks have enough power to...
Samsung curved UHD TVs now on pre-order
Samsung Electronics South Africa is introducing the world’s first Curved UHD TV to South African consumers, who now have the opportunity to pre-order their television from 11 April 2014 to 11 May 2014. According to Ansgar Pabst, business lead for TV/AV, Samsung...
Manage mobility in the cloud with CA Tech
CA Southern Africa has revealed that CA Technologies has launched the industry’s first, comprehensive Management Cloud for Mobility. This portfolio – delivered as a cloud service - enables enterprises to manage, secure and grow their businesses, increase productivity...