Technology News
Spam continues apace in 2014
During January, fake WhatsApp notifications, real stars for Valentine’s Day and Nigerian letters exploiting deaths - including that of Nelson Mandela - all featured in spam messages. Analysts at Kaspersky Lab have published the results of the company’s spam monitoring...
FNB: card swipes exceed R2bn per month
With cheque card swipes having exceeded cash withdrawals at ATMs for the first time in 2013, FNB expects that this trend will accelerate rapidly through 2014. Irlon Terrblanche, CEO for FNB Core Banking Solutions, comments: “For customers earning between R100 000 and...
Group Five sees improvements with PPO
In the five years since its implementation of Project Portfolio Office, an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, Group Five has seen improved enterprise resource management and project prioritisation, a higher level of project...
Flexible working solves work-hours issue
Each year the OECD produces a table of average working hours around the world. The table shows vast differences in the hours people work. It also creates huge scope for envy: Mexicans and South Koreans with 2 250 and 2 090 hours a year respectively must envy full-time...
Collaboration for Alcatel-Lucent, Intel
Alcatel-Lucent announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Intel Corporation to help operators worldwide improve their time to market and operational efficiency, and to drive the creative development of new products and services for consumers and business...
Server load balancing makes sense for SMBs
South African businesses within the small-to-mid size market may consider server load balancing (SLB) an investment that is just a little too far from reach and an unnecessary burden. The truth is that the business case for an investment of this kind makes sense and...
EMC announces Claude Schuck appointment
In line with its ongoing focus on the channel, EMC Southern Africa has appointed Claude Schuck as channel manager - formerly head of Dell’s Large Enterprise business unit, Schuck has almost two decades’ experience in the IT industry, including many years in the...
TCC rolls out Aspect solution
The UK-based contact centre outsourcer, The Contact Company (TCC), has chosen Aspect Software to improve efficiency and productivity across 1 000 seats over two sites in Birkenhead. The largest independent contact centre in the UK will deploy Aspect’s workforce...
The supply chain has gone global
When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. The famous quote was initially uttered about France and Europe by Austria’s Prince Klemens von Metternich during the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars to describe the effect it had on the rest of Europe, says Simon...
Know your NAS
Network attached storage (NAS) is a fast-growing technology in today’s data driven world, and has become something of a buzzword as it gains popularity. But what exactly is NAS? How does it differ from a file server? What benefits does it offer and what is RAID? What...
SA-made digital antenna plant opened
A joint venture between Poynting Antennas and Lawrence Global Manufacturing has been officially acknowledged at the launch of the Tshwane East Manufacturing Incubation Centre (TEMIC). The partnership has enabled the establishment of the incubation centre in order to...
Android led tablet sales in 2013
Worldwide sales of tablets to end-users reached 195,4-million units in 2013, a 68% increase on 2012, according to Gartner. While sales of iOS tablets grew in the fourth quarter of 2013, iOS's share declined to 36% in 2013. The tablet growth in 2013 was fuelled by the...
Telkom adds billing for BlackBerry apps
Telkom Mobile and BlackBerry have announced an integrated carrier billing service for BlackBerry smartphone customers in South Africa. The service is made possible through Telkom Mobile’s newly developed Event Billing service and will enable Telkom Mobile customers to...
Spam continues apace in 2014
During January, fake WhatsApp notifications, real stars for Valentine’s Day and Nigerian letters exploiting deaths - including that of Nelson Mandela - all featured in spam messages. Analysts at Kaspersky Lab have published the results of the company’s spam monitoring...
FNB: card swipes exceed R2bn per month
With cheque card swipes having exceeded cash withdrawals at ATMs for the first time in 2013, FNB expects that this trend will accelerate rapidly through 2014. Irlon Terrblanche, CEO for FNB Core Banking Solutions, comments: “For customers earning between R100 000 and...
Group Five sees improvements with PPO
In the five years since its implementation of Project Portfolio Office, an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, Group Five has seen improved enterprise resource management and project prioritisation, a higher level of project...
Flexible working solves work-hours issue
Each year the OECD produces a table of average working hours around the world. The table shows vast differences in the hours people work. It also creates huge scope for envy: Mexicans and South Koreans with 2 250 and 2 090 hours a year respectively must envy full-time...
Collaboration for Alcatel-Lucent, Intel
Alcatel-Lucent announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Intel Corporation to help operators worldwide improve their time to market and operational efficiency, and to drive the creative development of new products and services for consumers and business...
Server load balancing makes sense for SMBs
South African businesses within the small-to-mid size market may consider server load balancing (SLB) an investment that is just a little too far from reach and an unnecessary burden. The truth is that the business case for an investment of this kind makes sense and...
EMC announces Claude Schuck appointment
In line with its ongoing focus on the channel, EMC Southern Africa has appointed Claude Schuck as channel manager - formerly head of Dell’s Large Enterprise business unit, Schuck has almost two decades’ experience in the IT industry, including many years in the...