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Mxit signs up to the DMMA
Mxit, the mobile social network with a user base of approximately 6,5-million monthly active users in South Africa, has joined the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA). The move not only allows the mobile giant to have the weight of the official industry...
Harnessing opportunities in the cloud
Local interest in cloud computing is steadily growing and we are beginning to see an uptake in this platform, says Sven Rathjen, VP Sales EMEA at WD. This is extremely positive for resellers as the cloud presents prospects for growth and increased market share....
Why e-mail is not under threat from ESN
Whether you loathe it or love it, e-mail is not going away anytime soon. Despite what many naysayers predict, it is still a favoured means of corporate communication with research published in McKinsey’s Quarterly report late last year indicating that workers still...
Adapt IT solution for Sol Plaatje University
The importance of education is constantly highlighted by government as a means of enabling disadvantaged citizens to overcome their existing situations and achieve a better life. Therefore, it is no surprise that government fast tracked the establishment of the new...
Sage VIP honoured by Green Building Council
At a prestigious celebratory event held this week at Sage VIP’s green home in Menlyn Maine, the Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA) honoured founding sponsors and pioneers in the green building industry for their part in contributing to the organisation’s...
KEMP debuts in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
KEMP Technologies, the leading provider of application-centric load-balancer solutions, announced that its LoadMaster virtual and hardware-based ADC offerings have been selected for the first time by Gartner for inclusion in the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application...
Altech UEC wins at TT100 awards
Altech UEC International, the largest developer and manufacturer of set-top boxes in Africa, received the 2013 Minister of Science and Technology’s Award for Overall Excellence for large enterprises at the Technology Top 100 Awards, held on Thursday 28 November....
Sage Pastel wins best help desk award
Sage Pastel, South Africa’s leading developer of accounting and business software, has been named best help desk in the world at the ContactCenterWorld.com Top Ranking Performer global finals at a glittering ceremony in Las Vegas on the weekend. Category runners up...
Teradata CMO launches marketing book
Teradata Corporation, the leading analytic data platforms, applications and services company, recently announced that all profits from global sales of Teradata Applications CMO Lisa Arthur’s newly published book, Big Data Marketing, will be donated to The American Red...
Quintica secures service desk deals
With the growing demand for cross-campus technologies inside and outside of the lecture hall, learning institutions and universities are increasingly looking for IT enablers to assist in better managing IT as a whole. This is, according to Quintica, fuelling demand...
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...
Mxit signs up to the DMMA
Mxit, the mobile social network with a user base of approximately 6,5-million monthly active users in South Africa, has joined the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA). The move not only allows the mobile giant to have the weight of the official industry...
Harnessing opportunities in the cloud
Local interest in cloud computing is steadily growing and we are beginning to see an uptake in this platform, says Sven Rathjen, VP Sales EMEA at WD. This is extremely positive for resellers as the cloud presents prospects for growth and increased market share....
Why e-mail is not under threat from ESN
Whether you loathe it or love it, e-mail is not going away anytime soon. Despite what many naysayers predict, it is still a favoured means of corporate communication with research published in McKinsey’s Quarterly report late last year indicating that workers still...
Adapt IT solution for Sol Plaatje University
The importance of education is constantly highlighted by government as a means of enabling disadvantaged citizens to overcome their existing situations and achieve a better life. Therefore, it is no surprise that government fast tracked the establishment of the new...
Sage VIP honoured by Green Building Council
At a prestigious celebratory event held this week at Sage VIP’s green home in Menlyn Maine, the Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA) honoured founding sponsors and pioneers in the green building industry for their part in contributing to the organisation’s...
KEMP debuts in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
KEMP Technologies, the leading provider of application-centric load-balancer solutions, announced that its LoadMaster virtual and hardware-based ADC offerings have been selected for the first time by Gartner for inclusion in the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application...
Altech UEC wins at TT100 awards
Altech UEC International, the largest developer and manufacturer of set-top boxes in Africa, received the 2013 Minister of Science and Technology’s Award for Overall Excellence for large enterprises at the Technology Top 100 Awards, held on Thursday 28 November....