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XON wins Juniper Networks award
XON has been honoured as the Juniper Networks Partner of the Year for South Africa at the company's awards event held in Dubai in December, 2013. GM of Networking at systems integrator and ICT solutions business XON, Anthony Laing, says it is the many successes the...
PES is key for traceability
Just as you cannot ride a bicycle without wheels, a packaging execution system (PES) is to the packaging identification process what a manufacturing execution system (MES) is to manufacturing - it centrally steers all actions related to the process. While most...
Deriving value from ITIL initiatives
Many organisations embark upon ITIL training with the hope of improving IT service management (ITSM), only for the significant investment in time and money to fail to deliver the expected benefits, says Edward Carbutt, executive director at Marval South Africa. The...
Consumer focus for Intel in 2014
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has outlined a range of products, initiatives and strategic relationships aimed at accelerating innovation across a range of mobile and wearable devices as well as individual inventors' own connected creations. He made the announcements during...
Windows devices take off at CES 2014
A host of new Windows devices are on show at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held this week in Las Vegas. Among the new products to be seen are Panasonic’s 7-inch Toughpad – as the smallest Windows ruggedised tablet, it is designed for the enterprise...
Ericsson demos Networked Society at CES
Ericsson is demonstrating the experience of “Living Life in the Networked Society” at CES 2014. Visitors to the Ericsson booth can see how different aspects of an everyday connected life are seamlessly stitched together, allowing each of us to share experiences with...
Free Internet for XDSL data centre clients
In what is believed to be a first for South Africa, local Internet service provider (ISP) XDSL is offering free Internet connectivity out of its Centurion data centre to all clients that subscribe to co-location services, and to all existing and new fibre broadband...
Marshall Plan key for African unemployment
Africa needs to do more to tackle the growing threat of unemployment, which risks derailing the continent’s continued economic growth. This is the word from Tony Elumelu, the entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Heirs Holdings, in an article published on...
2013 matrics shine in maths, science
South Africa’s Grade 12 class of 2013 has posted the best performance yet in the important subjects of mathematics and science. Announcing the matric results yesterday, Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, says that of the 562 112 learners who wrote matric in...
Interaction with devices set to get easier
In an effort to make interaction with technology simpler, more natural and more immersive, Intel has outlined how it, in collaboration with other companies, is bringing human-like senses to Intel-based devices in a new family of hardware and software products called...
Gartner places Riverbed in Magic Quadrant
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, announced its position as a Leader in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. This marks the third consecutive time that Riverbed has been named to the Leaders...
100% pass rate for DiData school
A Saturday school run by ICT company Dimension Data was honoured by the Gauteng Department of Education this morning after once again achieving a 100% pass rate in the matriculation examinations. The Dimension Data Saturday School initiative is a two year programme...
Nedbank taps into IBM Analytics
IBM has announced that Nedbank, a leading financial services provider throughout southern Africa, is using IBM’s predictive analytics solutions to improve the customer experience and provide more responsive realtime services. As a result of this technology...
XON wins Juniper Networks award
XON has been honoured as the Juniper Networks Partner of the Year for South Africa at the company's awards event held in Dubai in December, 2013. GM of Networking at systems integrator and ICT solutions business XON, Anthony Laing, says it is the many successes the...
PES is key for traceability
Just as you cannot ride a bicycle without wheels, a packaging execution system (PES) is to the packaging identification process what a manufacturing execution system (MES) is to manufacturing - it centrally steers all actions related to the process. While most...
Deriving value from ITIL initiatives
Many organisations embark upon ITIL training with the hope of improving IT service management (ITSM), only for the significant investment in time and money to fail to deliver the expected benefits, says Edward Carbutt, executive director at Marval South Africa. The...
Consumer focus for Intel in 2014
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has outlined a range of products, initiatives and strategic relationships aimed at accelerating innovation across a range of mobile and wearable devices as well as individual inventors' own connected creations. He made the announcements during...
Windows devices take off at CES 2014
A host of new Windows devices are on show at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held this week in Las Vegas. Among the new products to be seen are Panasonic’s 7-inch Toughpad – as the smallest Windows ruggedised tablet, it is designed for the enterprise...
Ericsson demos Networked Society at CES
Ericsson is demonstrating the experience of “Living Life in the Networked Society” at CES 2014. Visitors to the Ericsson booth can see how different aspects of an everyday connected life are seamlessly stitched together, allowing each of us to share experiences with...
Free Internet for XDSL data centre clients
In what is believed to be a first for South Africa, local Internet service provider (ISP) XDSL is offering free Internet connectivity out of its Centurion data centre to all clients that subscribe to co-location services, and to all existing and new fibre broadband...