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Torque IT wins Oracle award
Leading ICT training solutions provider Torque IT has won the 2013 Best Oracle Approved Education Reseller (OAER) Partners Business Growth Award in South Africa, beating more than 206 other resellers of Oracle products in the country. This award is based on business...
Fouries continue to buy Pinnacle stock
The Fourie family, founders and major shareholders in Pinnacle, have continued to acquire shares in the group following a dramatic slide in its share price after an executive director was charged with bribery. Within two days of Thakalani Tshivhase being charged,...
Microsoft debuts personal assistant
Microsoft has launched a new voice-activated personal digital assistant, Cortana, on Windows Phone 8.1. Unveiled by Joe Belfiore at the Microsoft Build developers’ conference yesterday, Cortana is being billed as the “world’s first truly personal digital assistant”,...
Raft of new features for Windows 8.1
At Build 2014, Microsoft has announced several advances to Windows including Windows Phone 8.1, the availability of Windows 8.1 Update, a converged developer platform, and a $0 royalty licensing programme for OEM and ODM partners developing smartphones and tablets...
Dramatic increase in piracy whistleblowing
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) says that South Africans are becoming more proactive in the fight against software piracy, with a 44% increase in whistleblowing in 2013. The group says that this dramatic rise in reports of suspected software piracy suggests that...
MEA government spend to rise
Governments in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) will spend $11,9-billion on IT products and services in 2014, an increase of 2,3% over 2013 revenue of US $ 11,7-billion, according to Gartner. This forecast includes internal IT (including personnel), hardware,...
Phishing aims to steal your money
Cybercriminals are trying harder than ever to acquire confidential user information and steal money from bank accounts by creating fake sites mimicking financial organisations. According to the data collected for Kaspersky Lab’s study, Financial Cyber Threats in 2013,...
MWeb Business expands cloud services
MWeb Business has expanded its cloud-based range of business software solutions with the launch of SAP Business One OnDemand, giving SMEs more affordable access to highly sophisticated business tools that could boost their productivity and competitiveness. According...
Windows XP: new target for cybercriminals?
On 8 April 2014 Microsoft will stop support for Windows XP - despite the fact that its market share is still high. What will the security impact of this decision be, asks Guillaume Lovet, senior manager of Fortinet’s EMEA FortiGuard Labs. In practical terms, computers...
Spotlight falls on counterfeit goods
As one of the biggest victims of the counterfeit trade on the continent, HP is today hosting a summit in Johannesburg in an attempt to raise awareness around what has become the scourge of legitimate vendors. The company says that the Anti-Counterfeiting Africa...
Proactive surveillance curbs heists
Of the many aspects of cash handling, cash-in-transit has typically been the most difficult to secure. Transportation of luxury goods and cash have always been targets for crime syndicates, and while the frequency of cash-in-transit heists may have reduced in recent...
Seacom enhances IP/MPLS network
Seacom has announced that it has chosen Juniper and Cisco to provide their latest technology for a complete upgrade of the Seacom global IP & MPLS network. The network equipment upgrade is all part of Seacom’s continuing commitment to provide its customers with...
Kaspersky offers interactive cyberthreat map
Kaspersky Lab has launched an interactive cyberthreat map that visualises cyber security incidents occurring worldwide in realtime. The types of threats displayed include malicious objects detected during on-access and on-demand scans, e-mail and Web antivirus...
Torque IT wins Oracle award
Leading ICT training solutions provider Torque IT has won the 2013 Best Oracle Approved Education Reseller (OAER) Partners Business Growth Award in South Africa, beating more than 206 other resellers of Oracle products in the country. This award is based on business...
Fouries continue to buy Pinnacle stock
The Fourie family, founders and major shareholders in Pinnacle, have continued to acquire shares in the group following a dramatic slide in its share price after an executive director was charged with bribery. Within two days of Thakalani Tshivhase being charged,...
Microsoft debuts personal assistant
Microsoft has launched a new voice-activated personal digital assistant, Cortana, on Windows Phone 8.1. Unveiled by Joe Belfiore at the Microsoft Build developers’ conference yesterday, Cortana is being billed as the “world’s first truly personal digital assistant”,...
Raft of new features for Windows 8.1
At Build 2014, Microsoft has announced several advances to Windows including Windows Phone 8.1, the availability of Windows 8.1 Update, a converged developer platform, and a $0 royalty licensing programme for OEM and ODM partners developing smartphones and tablets...
Dramatic increase in piracy whistleblowing
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) says that South Africans are becoming more proactive in the fight against software piracy, with a 44% increase in whistleblowing in 2013. The group says that this dramatic rise in reports of suspected software piracy suggests that...
MEA government spend to rise
Governments in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) will spend $11,9-billion on IT products and services in 2014, an increase of 2,3% over 2013 revenue of US $ 11,7-billion, according to Gartner. This forecast includes internal IT (including personnel), hardware,...
Phishing aims to steal your money
Cybercriminals are trying harder than ever to acquire confidential user information and steal money from bank accounts by creating fake sites mimicking financial organisations. According to the data collected for Kaspersky Lab’s study, Financial Cyber Threats in 2013,...