Technology News
Storage market registers slight recovery
The external disk storage systems market value in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) recorded another slight recovery from the previous quarter, growing 3,4% annually in 4Q13 to $2,09-billion, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker...
Telkom announces Mega Challenge winners
Tabitha Bailey has been named as the top innovator of Telkom’s Open Innovation Mega Challenge for her cloud-based education platform concept. Bailey was awarded prize money of R120 000 and a free Telkom DSL service for 24 months for her winning idea. The challenge,...
Q-KON partners for WiFi growth
Together with its expert knowledge of developed and emerging technology and its excellent track record of contributing to connectivity across Africa, Q-KON has strengthened its carrier-class WiFi service capability with the announcement of strategic partnerships....
Strengthening healthcare key in 2014
Strengthening the health systems that provide health products and care is the most critical investment in global health, according to international survey results released today by leading global health organisations, PSI and PATH, as well as Devex, the global...
ITSM sets new outsourcing standards
As IT solutions commercialise and plug-and-play becomes the order of the day, IT resellers and outsourced IT solution providers are being challenged to adapt their services to remain relevant. This is seeing a surge in demand for IT service management (ITSM) - the...
The personal cloud grows digital storage
The way we work and play has evolved dramatically over the past decade. Tennis racquets and cricket bats have been replaced by tablets and smartphone devices, says Anamika Budree, brand sales manager, WD South Africa. Stacks of CDs have become MP3 libraries. Movies...
Ruckus delivers first 802.11ac WiFi product
Ruckus Wireless has announced the Ruckus ZoneFlex R700, the world’s first dual-band, three-stream indoor WiFi product specifically designed from the ground up built on the new 802.11ac standard. The R700 is the only 802.11ac product on the market that integrates...
Leader Tread tracks sales staff with Econz
Leader Tread has supplied and manufactured pre-cured rubber tread, as well as consumables required for the retreading process, for 50 years. Retreads are a big saving for large transport fleets and have better cost per kilometre than new tyres and in some cases the...
Protecting the supply chain from cybercrime
Sophisticated cyber "gangs' are gaining traction, resulting in the theft of sensitive data, intellectual property and customer details. These gangs not only have the motivation, but the ability and techniques to carry out these attacks, which are focused on a...
Ericsson grows TV Anywhere offering
Ericsson envisions 50-billion connected devices by 2020, 15-billion of which will be video enabled. The proliferation of these devices, combined with consumer willingness to pay for high quality, premium content, is resulting in a new age of TV Anywhere. Today’s TV...
Philips sets up African innovation hub
Royal Philips is to establish an Africa Innovation Hub in Nairobi, Kenya that will work both on the creation of new inventions, as well as bringing these inventions to market. The Philips Africa Innovation Hub will do application-focused scientific and user studies to...
Chinese firms get innovative, file patents
Innovation instead of imitation has become the policy of Chinese companies, with even young Chinese organisations rushing to file patents for their ideas and products. Economists from Technische Universität München (TUM) and the Munich Innovation Group have analysed...
Legacy Project schools to get connected
Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim and Deputy Minister of Communications Stella Tembisa Ndabeni, in partnership with the Department of Basic Education, Telkom and Intel, will launch the 2010 Fifa World Cup Legacy Project on the schools e-connectivity in...
Storage market registers slight recovery
The external disk storage systems market value in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) recorded another slight recovery from the previous quarter, growing 3,4% annually in 4Q13 to $2,09-billion, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker...
Telkom announces Mega Challenge winners
Tabitha Bailey has been named as the top innovator of Telkom’s Open Innovation Mega Challenge for her cloud-based education platform concept. Bailey was awarded prize money of R120 000 and a free Telkom DSL service for 24 months for her winning idea. The challenge,...
Q-KON partners for WiFi growth
Together with its expert knowledge of developed and emerging technology and its excellent track record of contributing to connectivity across Africa, Q-KON has strengthened its carrier-class WiFi service capability with the announcement of strategic partnerships....
Strengthening healthcare key in 2014
Strengthening the health systems that provide health products and care is the most critical investment in global health, according to international survey results released today by leading global health organisations, PSI and PATH, as well as Devex, the global...
ITSM sets new outsourcing standards
As IT solutions commercialise and plug-and-play becomes the order of the day, IT resellers and outsourced IT solution providers are being challenged to adapt their services to remain relevant. This is seeing a surge in demand for IT service management (ITSM) - the...
The personal cloud grows digital storage
The way we work and play has evolved dramatically over the past decade. Tennis racquets and cricket bats have been replaced by tablets and smartphone devices, says Anamika Budree, brand sales manager, WD South Africa. Stacks of CDs have become MP3 libraries. Movies...
Ruckus delivers first 802.11ac WiFi product
Ruckus Wireless has announced the Ruckus ZoneFlex R700, the world’s first dual-band, three-stream indoor WiFi product specifically designed from the ground up built on the new 802.11ac standard. The R700 is the only 802.11ac product on the market that integrates...