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Mobile growth continues PC market impact
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market continued to experience a steep decline during the third quarter of 2013, decreasing 15% in volume year-on-year, according to research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The results showed that PC shipments into the...
Sirefef botnet is taken down
The Sirefef botnet, which has infected almost 2-million computers around the world and siphoned off $2,7-million a month has been taken down. For the third time this year, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has successfully disrupted a dangerous botnet, Richard Domingues...
PayPal, Amazon the most trusted e-wallets
The frenzy of activity in the mobile payments and digital wallet space is beginning to pay off in the form of consumer awareness and interest. According to new Forrester data based on a survey of more than 4 000 respondents, 31% of US online consumers who own a mobile...
Entersekt wins Frost & Sullivan award
Based on its analysis of the online banking security market, Frost & Sullivan has recognised Entersekt with the 2013 South African Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership. Entersekt’s app, Transakt, replaces the conventional one-time password (OTP)...
The changing face of wireless networking
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 13,7% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13). According to the results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...
Global storage market down in 2013
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted a year-over-year decline of -3,5%, totalling $5,7-billion during the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker....
Managing project communications successfully
In project management, one of the most important areas of skill is in communication management. It includes the necessary processes to ensure the project information is generated, collected, distributed, stored and organised in an appropriate and timely manner....
Oslo university starts cloud storage project
Spectra Logic, an innovator in backup, data recovery and archive, and QStar Technologies, a leading global provider of enterprise-class data management and archive software, today announced that the University of Oslo has selected a Spectra Logic T-Finity coupled with...
Huawei launches rail communications solution
Huawei, a leading global ICT solutions provider, has launched the industry's first urban rail transportation solution based on enterprise LTE (eLTE) for Zhengzhou Metro. (Zhengzhou Metro) in China. The solution features highly reliable bilateral radio transmission...
Are enterprises the new ice exporters?
It’s hard to believe that ice was once a precious commodity. But in the early 1800s, a man called Frederic Tudor (affectionately known as the “Ice King”) made his fortune shipping thousands of tons of ice across the globe, says Bruce von Maltitz, director of 1Stream....
Konica Minolta branch wins KLCBT award
Delegates from Bidvest company, Konica Minolta South Africa’s Mpumalanga branch recently attended the 13th Annual Kruger Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism (KLCBT) Awards, where it scooped the coveted PriceWaterhouseCoopers/KLCBT Large Enterprise Award. The...
Industry appeals for online reform
Today AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo joined together to propose principles for reforming government surveillance laws and practices. The companies also urged the president and the US Congress to take the lead on reform with an...
People are the weakest link in IT security
At least 85% of organisations in South Africa experienced an internal information security incident last year, some of which led to sensitive data loss. The Global Corporate IT Security Risks survey by the B2B International research agency and Kaspersky Lab found that...
Mobile growth continues PC market impact
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market continued to experience a steep decline during the third quarter of 2013, decreasing 15% in volume year-on-year, according to research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The results showed that PC shipments into the...
Sirefef botnet is taken down
The Sirefef botnet, which has infected almost 2-million computers around the world and siphoned off $2,7-million a month has been taken down. For the third time this year, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has successfully disrupted a dangerous botnet, Richard Domingues...
PayPal, Amazon the most trusted e-wallets
The frenzy of activity in the mobile payments and digital wallet space is beginning to pay off in the form of consumer awareness and interest. According to new Forrester data based on a survey of more than 4 000 respondents, 31% of US online consumers who own a mobile...
Entersekt wins Frost & Sullivan award
Based on its analysis of the online banking security market, Frost & Sullivan has recognised Entersekt with the 2013 South African Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership. Entersekt’s app, Transakt, replaces the conventional one-time password (OTP)...
The changing face of wireless networking
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 13,7% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13). According to the results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...
Global storage market down in 2013
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted a year-over-year decline of -3,5%, totalling $5,7-billion during the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker....
Managing project communications successfully
In project management, one of the most important areas of skill is in communication management. It includes the necessary processes to ensure the project information is generated, collected, distributed, stored and organised in an appropriate and timely manner....