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Infrasoft accelerates core banking solutions
Infrasoft Technologies, a market leader with more than 130 core banking installations across more than 3 000 sites, accelerates the next generation cloud-based core banking solutions for the smaller financial institutions and co-operative banks. The solution helps the...
2013 shook up IT and the cloud
In 2013, big companies in the cloud space faced downtime challenges, companies in the social media space were valued at costs seemingly much higher than they’re worth, and a superpower’s secrets were revealed to the world. “Four big events or trends in the IT space...
Xerox named BLI PRO Award winner
Buyers Laboratory (BLI), the leading independent authority in the document imaging industry, has named Xerox as a winner at its 2014 PRO Awards. The Xerox Colour J75 Press was acknowledged as a best-in-class production print device, specifically for outstanding colour...
Mobile phones vital for Africans
The mobile phone is the most important piece of technology for 73% of mobile users in sub-Saharan Africa. Ericsson has released its first regional consumer insight report focusing on trends and analysis of the mobile ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa. The report...
Santa goes 3D and interactive this year
By Roger Capriotti - Every December, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) takes on the role of ensuring that Santa’s journey around the world is safe. Since 1955, children of all ages have tracked his route with the help of NORAD’s radar, satellites...
IT spend shifts to as-a-service platforms
Organisations’ need to drive innovation and growth, coupled with a limited budget and the mainstreaming of consuming technology “as a service”, is creating the perfect condition for integrated platform solutions. In today’s blog post, Susan Tan, research director at...
The importance of having a mobile strategy
According to recent research conducted by Nielsen, more Africans have access to mobile phones than they do clean water. In fact, more South African’s use mobile phones than listen to the radio or use a personal computer. Gerhard Botha, CTO of PBT Group, comments:...
Cyber-mercenaries, APT groups grew in 2013
In 2013 advanced threat actors continued large-scale operations, and cyber-mercenaries and specialist APT groups “for hire” - which focus on hit-and-run operations - emerged. According to a Kaspersky Lab round-up of the year, hacktivists were constantly in the news,...
Online sales soar on Cyber Monday
US shoppers made Cyber Monday the biggest online shopping day in history, with a 20,6% increase in online sales. According to the latest cloud-based analytics findings from IBM, mobile sales led the way, exceeding 17% of total online sales, an increase of 55,4%...
MTN makes data promo permanent
MTN has made its reduced mobile Internet bundle rates permanent. “The Internet Bundle rate reduction has proven to be extremely successful with customers, addressing their need to be connected at all times, with the rise of internet data consumption requirements. We...
Konica Minolta launches bizbook corners
Last year, Bidvest company, Konica Minolta South Africa converted a light commercial vehicle into a mobile library, providing children and communities in the Gauteng area with access to books, thus giving them the opportunity to improve their literacy skills. But the...
Data quality is critical for IT projects
In any typical IT project, most businesses focus solely on the functional design of the solution, to the exclusion of the data and how this data supports business processes, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. However, if data quality and integration is...
Addressing identity management in realtime
Global populations are not only growing, they are concentrating in ever-larger urban conglomerations. These large concentrations of people create many challenges, many of which can only be solved with the help of new and flexible ways to establish identity securely....
Infrasoft accelerates core banking solutions
Infrasoft Technologies, a market leader with more than 130 core banking installations across more than 3 000 sites, accelerates the next generation cloud-based core banking solutions for the smaller financial institutions and co-operative banks. The solution helps the...
2013 shook up IT and the cloud
In 2013, big companies in the cloud space faced downtime challenges, companies in the social media space were valued at costs seemingly much higher than they’re worth, and a superpower’s secrets were revealed to the world. “Four big events or trends in the IT space...
Xerox named BLI PRO Award winner
Buyers Laboratory (BLI), the leading independent authority in the document imaging industry, has named Xerox as a winner at its 2014 PRO Awards. The Xerox Colour J75 Press was acknowledged as a best-in-class production print device, specifically for outstanding colour...
Mobile phones vital for Africans
The mobile phone is the most important piece of technology for 73% of mobile users in sub-Saharan Africa. Ericsson has released its first regional consumer insight report focusing on trends and analysis of the mobile ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa. The report...
Santa goes 3D and interactive this year
By Roger Capriotti - Every December, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) takes on the role of ensuring that Santa’s journey around the world is safe. Since 1955, children of all ages have tracked his route with the help of NORAD’s radar, satellites...
IT spend shifts to as-a-service platforms
Organisations’ need to drive innovation and growth, coupled with a limited budget and the mainstreaming of consuming technology “as a service”, is creating the perfect condition for integrated platform solutions. In today’s blog post, Susan Tan, research director at...
The importance of having a mobile strategy
According to recent research conducted by Nielsen, more Africans have access to mobile phones than they do clean water. In fact, more South African’s use mobile phones than listen to the radio or use a personal computer. Gerhard Botha, CTO of PBT Group, comments:...