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Ukuvuma, IBM boost mobile movement
Executive management at Ukuvuma Solutions believe the latest solutions emerging within the mobile space and the level of innovation that now defines software reflects a fast-maturing market with plenty of opportunity. Ukuvuma Solutions is focused primarily on IBM ICS...
Sony offers expanded smartwear experience
After introducing a new vision for smart, wearable technology at CES 2014, Sony Mobile announced that SmartBand and Lifelog application will be available worldwide from March 2014. “At CES 2014, I introduced SmartWear Experience as representing emotion as well as...
Dell expands PowerEdge portfolio
Dell has announced a new addition to its PowerEdge server portfolio for enterprise, the Dell PowerEdge R920. The PowerEdge R920 is now Dell’s highest performing server, allowing customers to achieve faster results, quickly adapt to changing business needs and improve...
Power failures can be costly for SMMEs
Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMME) that fail to effectively plan for unscheduled and unpredictable power outages could experience significant short and long-term financial losses as a result of a loss of network connectivity and data. This is according to Abid...
MUT eliminates paper-based salary info
Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) in KwaZulu-Natal understands the importance of cost efficiencies, the need to be more environmentally friendly and most critically, the necessity of keeping its employees informed while keeping their financial information...
Flexenclosure deploys solution in Morocco
Moroccan mobile operator inwi is to deploy Flexenclosure’s hybrid power solution eSite at 30 telecom sites across Morocco. Flexenclosure will provide turnkey deployments with all equipment and services needed for running the sites for five years, delivering "trouble...
Promate sales boom for Esquire
Esquire Technologies, the award winning broad-based distributor - including technology, digital lifestyle, consumer and mobile products - reports that since signing on as a distributor for Promate Technologies for the southern African region in the second quarter of...
Govt translators receive software training
Translators in Parliament recently attended a workshop on the use of the so-called Autshumato open-source translation software in Cape Town. The software was developed by the North-West University’s CTexT (Centre for Text Technology) as part of the Autshumato project,...
Microsoft’s next move
After Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, settles into his new position, Microsoft’s efforts at reinvention will accelerate, creating both opportunities and risks. In a blog post, Merv Adrian, research vice-president at Gartner, lays out some of the first actions...
SA tablet shipments more than double
Shipments of tablet PCs to South Africa increased 107,1% year-on-year in the final quarter of 2013 to total 513 000 units, according to the latest insights from International Data Corporation (IDC). The country's traditional PC market suffered a better-than-predicted...
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%...
Ukuvuma, IBM boost mobile movement
Executive management at Ukuvuma Solutions believe the latest solutions emerging within the mobile space and the level of innovation that now defines software reflects a fast-maturing market with plenty of opportunity. Ukuvuma Solutions is focused primarily on IBM ICS...
Sony offers expanded smartwear experience
After introducing a new vision for smart, wearable technology at CES 2014, Sony Mobile announced that SmartBand and Lifelog application will be available worldwide from March 2014. “At CES 2014, I introduced SmartWear Experience as representing emotion as well as...
Dell expands PowerEdge portfolio
Dell has announced a new addition to its PowerEdge server portfolio for enterprise, the Dell PowerEdge R920. The PowerEdge R920 is now Dell’s highest performing server, allowing customers to achieve faster results, quickly adapt to changing business needs and improve...
Power failures can be costly for SMMEs
Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMME) that fail to effectively plan for unscheduled and unpredictable power outages could experience significant short and long-term financial losses as a result of a loss of network connectivity and data. This is according to Abid...
MUT eliminates paper-based salary info
Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) in KwaZulu-Natal understands the importance of cost efficiencies, the need to be more environmentally friendly and most critically, the necessity of keeping its employees informed while keeping their financial information...
Flexenclosure deploys solution in Morocco
Moroccan mobile operator inwi is to deploy Flexenclosure’s hybrid power solution eSite at 30 telecom sites across Morocco. Flexenclosure will provide turnkey deployments with all equipment and services needed for running the sites for five years, delivering "trouble...
Promate sales boom for Esquire
Esquire Technologies, the award winning broad-based distributor - including technology, digital lifestyle, consumer and mobile products - reports that since signing on as a distributor for Promate Technologies for the southern African region in the second quarter of...