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Consumers rate FNB’s digital channels
FNB’s digital banking channels are voted as having the best experience by South African banking consumers, this is according to the 2014 South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi). In the banking channel measure, the SAcsi surveyed 7337 banking customers about...
Oracle announces Q3 results
Oracle has announced that 2014 Q3 total revenues were up 4% to $9,3-billion. New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues were up 4% to $2,4-billion. Software license updates and product support revenues were up 5% to $4,6-billion. Hardware systems...
Vox Telecom offers auditable e-mail product
Vox Telecom has announced the release of Mailtrack - a secure, auditable e-mail product. “For a long time, data security experts have warned businesses about the necessity of guarding their data centres and backups, as well as mobile devices, but very few companies...
IT as value driver key for digital business
The digital business embraces next generation technology, such as cloud, big data and mobility, to enable executives to make accurate decisions in realtime. These technologies can also be used to create new business models and services, which can in turn be used to...
NASA codeathon tackles climate
NASA and space agencies around the world are preparing for the third annual International Space Apps Challenge on 12 and 13 April. Participants will develop mobile applications, software, hardware, data visualisation and platform solutions that could contribute to...
Local solution to cut procurement fraud
SAS Institute has launched a locally-developed procurement fraud solution that uses analytics to help public- and private-sector organisations to detect fraudulent or wasteful expenditure. Figures show that fraud is rampant around the world, as well as in South...
Intel aims to re-invent the desktop PC
Intel has unveiled a set of roadmap enhancements, platform features and software partnerships to help drive the re-invention of desktop computing. New form factors such as mini PCs and desktop all-in-ones (AIOs) are driving excitement within the category, and Intel is...
Big data key to reducing fraud
Companies are missing opportunities to mine big data in order to reduce fraud risk and improve anti-bribery compliance. EY’s 2014 global forensic data analytics survey, Big Risks Require Big Data Thinking, highlights that 63% of senior executives surveyed at leading...
Dell, HP the winners in flat monitor market
Total worldwide PC monitor shipments were slightly below 35-million units in the fourth quarter of 2013 (4Q13), a decrease of -0,4% compared to the previous quarter yet 2,9% more than forecast, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...
SA users switch on to YouTube
In 2013, YouTube views in South Africa increased by over 90%. “We call the YouTube generation ‘Generation C’, with 70% of South African YouTuber users being between the age of 18 and 34,” says Jared Molko, YouTube brand partnerships lead at Google South Africa....
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...
Consumers rate FNB’s digital channels
FNB’s digital banking channels are voted as having the best experience by South African banking consumers, this is according to the 2014 South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi). In the banking channel measure, the SAcsi surveyed 7337 banking customers about...
Oracle announces Q3 results
Oracle has announced that 2014 Q3 total revenues were up 4% to $9,3-billion. New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues were up 4% to $2,4-billion. Software license updates and product support revenues were up 5% to $4,6-billion. Hardware systems...
Vox Telecom offers auditable e-mail product
Vox Telecom has announced the release of Mailtrack - a secure, auditable e-mail product. “For a long time, data security experts have warned businesses about the necessity of guarding their data centres and backups, as well as mobile devices, but very few companies...
IT as value driver key for digital business
The digital business embraces next generation technology, such as cloud, big data and mobility, to enable executives to make accurate decisions in realtime. These technologies can also be used to create new business models and services, which can in turn be used to...
NASA codeathon tackles climate
NASA and space agencies around the world are preparing for the third annual International Space Apps Challenge on 12 and 13 April. Participants will develop mobile applications, software, hardware, data visualisation and platform solutions that could contribute to...
Local solution to cut procurement fraud
SAS Institute has launched a locally-developed procurement fraud solution that uses analytics to help public- and private-sector organisations to detect fraudulent or wasteful expenditure. Figures show that fraud is rampant around the world, as well as in South...
Intel aims to re-invent the desktop PC
Intel has unveiled a set of roadmap enhancements, platform features and software partnerships to help drive the re-invention of desktop computing. New form factors such as mini PCs and desktop all-in-ones (AIOs) are driving excitement within the category, and Intel is...