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Mobile malware takes aim at Android
More than 96% of all mobile malware tracked is based on Android, with Symbian a distant second, and iOS, BlackBerry, PalmOS and Windows barely on the radar. These are among the findings of Fortinet’s FortiGuard threat landscape research for the period from 1 January...
Esquire wins international channel award
Esquire Technologies has won the EMEA Channel Academy Multichannel Initiative of the Year Award for 2014. The EMEA Channel Academy: 2014 Awards took place in conjunction with regional channel event DISTREE EMEA. Distributors, retailers and vendors operating in the...
MTN first to offer Ericsson’s Radio Dot
Ericsson has announced an agreement with MTN to trial its new Ericsson Radio Dot System in public venues and enterprise buildings across South Africa and, later, across other MTN operations. An in-building environment presents a special set of challenges for mobile...
Metrofile expects higher earnings
Metrofile has issued a trading statement alerting shareholders to the fact its headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the period ended 31 December 2013 are expected to be about 20% higher than in the previous corresponding period. The company’s earnings per shares...
MTN provides free mobile Wikipedia, Momaths
MTN South Africa has signed a partnership agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation that oversees Wikipedia, to offer its customers free access to Wikipedia. MTN will be the first operator in South Africa to offer this public service to...
Telkom calls for VoD tender applications
Telkom has extended an invitation to industry to bid for the provisioning of video on demand (VoD) services. Manelisa Mavuso, MD of consumer services and retail marketing, comments: “We have been progressing well with our efforts to deliver the ultimate connected home...
McAfee announces free mobile protection
At Mobile World Congress 2014, McAfee announced a full-featured version of its award-winning McAfee Mobile Security is now available at no cost in 30 languages, as part of an Intel Corporation initiative to make security a more integrated part of the consumer...
CIPS boosts good practice with online test
Unethical procurement and supply management has never before hit the headlines so hard. CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply) is fighting back and asking procurement professionals and organisations to do the same and make a real difference with the...
Microsoft launches Student Advantage
In these challenging economic times when bursaries and allowances are being stretched to the max, Microsoft South Africa is looking to provide some relief through its new Student Advantage offering. This initiative sees the full Office 365 cloud-based productivity...
Genesys delivers record growth in 2013
Genesys has announced record performance for 2013. In its second year as an independent company, Genesys achieved record growth, with 2013 revenue surpassing $740-million (representing over 20% annual growth) and EBIT surpassing $200-million (representing over 15%...
Wits scientists cast light on climate change
Wits University scientists have published papers that cast new light on perceived climate changes in southern Africa. They demonstrate that, despite predictions, tropical storms are not increasing in number. However, they are shifting, and South Africa could be at...
Telkom CEO to attend compliance course
Telkom’s suspended chief financial officer, Jacques Schindehutte, has repaid the R6-million loan from the state-owned enterprise – and the CEO has to attend a course on corporate governance. The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) issued a compliance...
Oracle extends cloud offering with BlueKai
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire BlueKai, a cloud-based big data platform that enables companies to personalise online, offline and mobile marketing campaigns with richer and more actionable information about targeted audiences. The BlueKai solution includes...
Mobile malware takes aim at Android
More than 96% of all mobile malware tracked is based on Android, with Symbian a distant second, and iOS, BlackBerry, PalmOS and Windows barely on the radar. These are among the findings of Fortinet’s FortiGuard threat landscape research for the period from 1 January...
Esquire wins international channel award
Esquire Technologies has won the EMEA Channel Academy Multichannel Initiative of the Year Award for 2014. The EMEA Channel Academy: 2014 Awards took place in conjunction with regional channel event DISTREE EMEA. Distributors, retailers and vendors operating in the...
MTN first to offer Ericsson’s Radio Dot
Ericsson has announced an agreement with MTN to trial its new Ericsson Radio Dot System in public venues and enterprise buildings across South Africa and, later, across other MTN operations. An in-building environment presents a special set of challenges for mobile...
Metrofile expects higher earnings
Metrofile has issued a trading statement alerting shareholders to the fact its headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the period ended 31 December 2013 are expected to be about 20% higher than in the previous corresponding period. The company’s earnings per shares...
MTN provides free mobile Wikipedia, Momaths
MTN South Africa has signed a partnership agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation that oversees Wikipedia, to offer its customers free access to Wikipedia. MTN will be the first operator in South Africa to offer this public service to...
Telkom calls for VoD tender applications
Telkom has extended an invitation to industry to bid for the provisioning of video on demand (VoD) services. Manelisa Mavuso, MD of consumer services and retail marketing, comments: “We have been progressing well with our efforts to deliver the ultimate connected home...
McAfee announces free mobile protection
At Mobile World Congress 2014, McAfee announced a full-featured version of its award-winning McAfee Mobile Security is now available at no cost in 30 languages, as part of an Intel Corporation initiative to make security a more integrated part of the consumer...