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SKA communities enter digital age
The communities around the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) are set to enter the information age with a R2,5-million boost that will equip schools and a community centre with IT hardware, software and services. Intel South Africa has launched several community projects in...
Smartphones now 55% of mobile phone sales
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end-users totalled 455,6-million units in the third quarter of 2013, an increase of 5,7% from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Sales of smartphones accounted for 55% of overall mobile phone sales in the third quarter of...
SA plays second fiddle to patents at home
Business players in South Africa must become far more aware of the importance of IP in the globalised economy. Sooner or later, about 4 000 registered patents from foreigners in South Africa will become effective – and “one should not wait long as they will soon be...
NetApp takes on traditional Tier 1 storage
By Mark Davison at NetApp Insight, Dublin – NetApp has set the cat among the flash array pigeons in Dublin with the launch today of three new platforms – its E2700, E5500 and, more importantly, its EF550. Matt Watts, director of technology and strategy at NetApp EMEA,...
Companies mistrust their IT infrastructure
A startling lack of senior executive confidence permeates organisations globally, specifically concerning readiness around the critical IT requirements of continuous availability; advanced security; and integrated backup and recovery. This is one of the insights from...
Huge Group expects earnings decline
Huge Group is expecting a dramatic decrease in its earnings for the latest half-year. The company has issued a trading statement for the six months ended 31 August 2013. The company anticipates that earnings per share will be between 40% and 60% lower than the...
Westcon-Comztek first line for Microsoft
Westcon-Comztek has been officially confirmed as a First Line Distributor of Microsoft Finished Box products. As per its appointment as a First Line Distributor of all Microsoft box products, or Full Package Products (FPP), all Comztek customers will be able to take...
Mobile theft takes more than just the phone
Every sixth user has experienced loss, theft or catastrophic damage to a portable digital device – a laptop, a smartphone or a tablet - in the last 12 months, according to the Kaspersky Consumer Security Risks survey carried out by B2B International and Kaspersky Lab...
SA firms lead in document digitisation
European financial services organisations have made bigger strides towards unlocking the bigger data opportunity – the digitisation of business critical, hard copy documents for business decision-making – than any other industry, according to new research commissioned...
SA team helps winning Dutch client
South Africa’s Aspire Solutions, which specialises in spatial business applications, is celebrating its role in helping blue-chip Dutch client ANWB win the weather and traffic category of Holland’s annual Web site of the Year awards – against competition that included...
Motorola Solutions expands Android portfolio
Motorola Solutions, a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, has announced four enterprise mobile computers running the most popular version of the Android operating system (OS). The devices...
Nigerian e-commerce payments hurdles
Nigeria is not “business as usual” for new entrants to the market – but, according to Robin Philip of payment services provider PayGate, for global e-commerce providers there are many opportunities if you have the right supporting network of partners and suppliers....
MB Tech plans R80m SecureData acquisition
MB Tech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MB Technologies, has made an offer to acquire the entire issued ordinary share capital of SecureData for an amount of about R86,3-million. The deal would involve MB Tech buying 227 128 521 SecureData shares by way of a scheme of...
SKA communities enter digital age
The communities around the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) are set to enter the information age with a R2,5-million boost that will equip schools and a community centre with IT hardware, software and services. Intel South Africa has launched several community projects in...
Smartphones now 55% of mobile phone sales
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end-users totalled 455,6-million units in the third quarter of 2013, an increase of 5,7% from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Sales of smartphones accounted for 55% of overall mobile phone sales in the third quarter of...
SA plays second fiddle to patents at home
Business players in South Africa must become far more aware of the importance of IP in the globalised economy. Sooner or later, about 4 000 registered patents from foreigners in South Africa will become effective – and “one should not wait long as they will soon be...
NetApp takes on traditional Tier 1 storage
By Mark Davison at NetApp Insight, Dublin – NetApp has set the cat among the flash array pigeons in Dublin with the launch today of three new platforms – its E2700, E5500 and, more importantly, its EF550. Matt Watts, director of technology and strategy at NetApp EMEA,...
Companies mistrust their IT infrastructure
A startling lack of senior executive confidence permeates organisations globally, specifically concerning readiness around the critical IT requirements of continuous availability; advanced security; and integrated backup and recovery. This is one of the insights from...
Huge Group expects earnings decline
Huge Group is expecting a dramatic decrease in its earnings for the latest half-year. The company has issued a trading statement for the six months ended 31 August 2013. The company anticipates that earnings per share will be between 40% and 60% lower than the...
Westcon-Comztek first line for Microsoft
Westcon-Comztek has been officially confirmed as a First Line Distributor of Microsoft Finished Box products. As per its appointment as a First Line Distributor of all Microsoft box products, or Full Package Products (FPP), all Comztek customers will be able to take...