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Ericsson joins 5G research group
Ericsson has joined New York University’s NYU Wireless as an affiliate sponsor of research exploring a new generation of wireless technologies, also known as 5G. New York University’s Polytechnic School of Engineering launched NYU Wireless in August 2012. Focused on...
Zebra buys Motorola Enterprise for $3,45bn
Zebra Technologies is to acquire Motorola's Enterprise business for $3,45-billion in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition will be funded through a combination of cash on hand and new debt. The transaction, which was approved by the boards of directors of both...
Orange invests in Johannesburg
Orange will open a local warehouse to support the sale of products (smartphones, tablets, computers, gadgets and accessories) from its online store in May this year. The warehouse will be located in Sunninghill, in Johannesburg, and will replace London as the service...
Mobility spend in healthcare to hit $2,4bn
IDC Health Insights finds that European healthcare providers are focusing on mobile solutions that address the most time-consuming processes, in order to reduce waste, delay and duplications. According to IDC Health Insights new report, How European Healthcare...
Gamification key for business strategy
Gamification has become an essential part of any digital business strategy - a way to digitally motivate people and overcome barriers of scale, time, distance, connectedness and cost, according to Gartner. Digital business leaders are using gamification to add value...
Lessons learnt from Heartbleed
David Jacoby, senior security researcher: Global Research & Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab, discusses the lessons we have learnt from the Heartbleed vulnerability. At Kaspersky Lab, my job not only involves analysing malware and vulnerabilities, or merely talking...
How the business process players stack up
IBM, OpenText, Oracle, Pegasystems and Tibco have been named as leaders in a new assessment of business process (BP) platform vendors by IDC. BP platforms are product suites or portfolios that support the design and runtime environments for transformational or...
Voice still essential to business
In a survey conducted in the UK late last year, voice still topped the communication stakes in business. The Critical Communications report indicated that 78% of UK employees and IT leaders identify voice as the most critical form of business communication and almost...
Dell offers new enterprise solutions
Dell has announced it is enabling customers to redraw the boundaries of IT with new enterprise solutions designed to dramatically speed application response times, strengthen the ties among data centre technologies and simplify IT operations. CIOs are being tasked to...
E-mails can expose confidential data
Surveys show that companies are becoming increasingly concerned about data loss and exposure of confidential information through e-mail. And, rightly so. Research indicates that at least 22% of companies have experienced an accidental or malicious leak of sensitive or...
Rosy future for Dell partners
Mark Davison at Dell’s Enterprise Forum, Frankfurt – She may be new to Dell’s channel, but Cheryl Cook, vice-president of Global Channel and Alliances, has no doubt it has a crucial role to play in the future success of the now private organisation. Cook explains that...
Dell tweaks its channel programme
Mark Davison at Dell’s Enterprise Forum, Frankfurt – Looking to maintain the strong double-digit growth that its channel is experiencing in the EMEA region, Dell has announced a slew of new partner programmes and incentives. Laurent Binetti, vice-president and GM of...
Drivers of smart government
The Nexus of Forces, which is the convergence of the four powerful forces of social, mobile, cloud and information, is driving innovation in the government sector, according to Gartner. “Smart government integrates information, communication and operational...
Ericsson joins 5G research group
Ericsson has joined New York University’s NYU Wireless as an affiliate sponsor of research exploring a new generation of wireless technologies, also known as 5G. New York University’s Polytechnic School of Engineering launched NYU Wireless in August 2012. Focused on...
Zebra buys Motorola Enterprise for $3,45bn
Zebra Technologies is to acquire Motorola's Enterprise business for $3,45-billion in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition will be funded through a combination of cash on hand and new debt. The transaction, which was approved by the boards of directors of both...
Orange invests in Johannesburg
Orange will open a local warehouse to support the sale of products (smartphones, tablets, computers, gadgets and accessories) from its online store in May this year. The warehouse will be located in Sunninghill, in Johannesburg, and will replace London as the service...
Mobility spend in healthcare to hit $2,4bn
IDC Health Insights finds that European healthcare providers are focusing on mobile solutions that address the most time-consuming processes, in order to reduce waste, delay and duplications. According to IDC Health Insights new report, How European Healthcare...
Gamification key for business strategy
Gamification has become an essential part of any digital business strategy - a way to digitally motivate people and overcome barriers of scale, time, distance, connectedness and cost, according to Gartner. Digital business leaders are using gamification to add value...
Lessons learnt from Heartbleed
David Jacoby, senior security researcher: Global Research & Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab, discusses the lessons we have learnt from the Heartbleed vulnerability. At Kaspersky Lab, my job not only involves analysing malware and vulnerabilities, or merely talking...
How the business process players stack up
IBM, OpenText, Oracle, Pegasystems and Tibco have been named as leaders in a new assessment of business process (BP) platform vendors by IDC. BP platforms are product suites or portfolios that support the design and runtime environments for transformational or...