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SA companies scoop SAP Gold
Two South African companies - AngloGold Ashanti and Royal Bafokeng – and Kenyan SMB Antarc have walked away with the top honours at SAP Africa’s 2013 Quality Awards Africa for their successful implementations of SAP technology. The SAP Quality Awards celebrate...
Most companies came under attack in 2013
Companies are increasingly falling victim to cyber-attacks, with 91% having suffered an attack at least once in the last year. According to a recent survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 9% of these were the victims of targeted attacks - carefully...
Luanda is Africa’s most expensive city
Angola's capital, Luanda, remains Africa's most expensive city, and is the second most expensive for expatriates globally. This is among the findings of the latest Cost of Living survey by ECA International, which provides information for the management and assignment...
Trustwave offers penetration testing service
Trustwave has announced that the company has rolled out a new subscription-based, penetration testing service to its channel partners. The service, Trustwave Managed Security Testing, allows value-added resellers to resell network and application penetration tests as...
Aligning payroll with the ETI bill
South Africa is well known for its high unemployment rates especially amongst the youth. In an attempt to reduce this, Government has proposed the implementation of the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) scheme to encourage businesses to employ young people. The Bill was...
Blue Turtle extends EMM offerings
Blue Turtle has added comprehensive enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution to their arsenal. FrontRange, a leading provider of IT service management and client system management solutions, announced the availability of a new EMM offering. By integrating EMM...
G-Shock Bluetooth watches from Casio
The collection of new Casio G-Shock watches, the GB-6900B and GB-X6900B, are equipped with Bluetooth low-energy technology (v4.0) that lets the watches exchange information with a smartphone. Compared with previous models of similar capabilities, the new models are...
How to stay productive this festive season
Depending on your industry sector, you may or may not be gearing up to an especially hectic year-end. But whatever the nature of your work, doing business during the festive season can be tricky, says Kirsten Morgendaal, area director South Africa for Regus....
Cyberoam offers infrastructure security
Cyberoam, the leading global provider of network security appliances, has announced the availability of security for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) on its UTM and NGFW network security appliances. Until recently, organisations maintained their critical...
Using predictive analytics to gain advantage
Organisations today are challenged by the need to understand their customers’ current and future requirements in a fast-paced and highly competitive environment, while still delivering goods and services in a profitable manner. Added to this is the need to continue to...
SA improves foundation-level learning
South African school children are improving on their foundation-level literacy scores, which bodes well for their future learning outcomes. This was one of the messages from Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic Education, following yesterday's release of the Annual...
Worldwide server market in decline
Factory revenue in the worldwide server market decreased -3,7% year-over-year to $12,1-billion in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), according to the International Data Corporate (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. This was the third consecutive quarter of...
Mobile use spurs e-commerce
Digital goods, spurred by the growth in freemium business models and in-app purchases, dominate the area of mobile content and commerce. However, there is a decline in the volume of purchases for the first time – from 54% of mobile media users in 2012 to 42% in 2013....
SA companies scoop SAP Gold
Two South African companies - AngloGold Ashanti and Royal Bafokeng – and Kenyan SMB Antarc have walked away with the top honours at SAP Africa’s 2013 Quality Awards Africa for their successful implementations of SAP technology. The SAP Quality Awards celebrate...
Most companies came under attack in 2013
Companies are increasingly falling victim to cyber-attacks, with 91% having suffered an attack at least once in the last year. According to a recent survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 9% of these were the victims of targeted attacks - carefully...
Luanda is Africa’s most expensive city
Angola's capital, Luanda, remains Africa's most expensive city, and is the second most expensive for expatriates globally. This is among the findings of the latest Cost of Living survey by ECA International, which provides information for the management and assignment...
Trustwave offers penetration testing service
Trustwave has announced that the company has rolled out a new subscription-based, penetration testing service to its channel partners. The service, Trustwave Managed Security Testing, allows value-added resellers to resell network and application penetration tests as...
Aligning payroll with the ETI bill
South Africa is well known for its high unemployment rates especially amongst the youth. In an attempt to reduce this, Government has proposed the implementation of the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) scheme to encourage businesses to employ young people. The Bill was...
Blue Turtle extends EMM offerings
Blue Turtle has added comprehensive enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution to their arsenal. FrontRange, a leading provider of IT service management and client system management solutions, announced the availability of a new EMM offering. By integrating EMM...
G-Shock Bluetooth watches from Casio
The collection of new Casio G-Shock watches, the GB-6900B and GB-X6900B, are equipped with Bluetooth low-energy technology (v4.0) that lets the watches exchange information with a smartphone. Compared with previous models of similar capabilities, the new models are...