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AxizWorkgroup is tops again
AxizWorkgroup has once again scooped the prestigious Channelwise Distributor of the Year Award, having been voted by resellers as their favourite distribution partner for 2013. The distributor swept the boards, winning no fewer than five out of eight category awards:...
Who SA’s enterprise resellers voted for …
HP once again swept the boards in the 2013 Channelwise Awards, as voted by Large/Enterprise resellers – although some surprise contenders have come through this year to challenge the vendor’s dominance in the South African market. Enterprise resellers were asked to...
SME/consumer resellers make their mark
South Africa’s SME and consumer resellers have cast their votes in the 2013 Channelwise Awards, and named their favourite vendors. In the Consumer category, Seagate took top honours as the disk drive vendor of choice, with Nvidia as the graphics cards supplier. Intel...
Printer market starts to recover
The overall Western European hardcopy market showed year-on-year growth for the second quarter in a row as the total market increased 3,6% in the third quarter of 2013 to over 5,76-million units, compared with 5,56-million units a year ago, according to International...
Olympic torch back from space
The Olympic torch that will be used to open the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, has completed a sojourn in space and this morning landed back on Earth. The torch arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and was...
Financial challenges limit EAS growth
Overall enterprise applications software (EAS) spending in South Africa is set to increase 10,5% year-on-year in 2014 to total $518,45-million, according to the latest South Africa Enterprise Applications Software Market 2013–2017 Forecast from International Data...
Fear of cyber-threats leaves systems exposed
Recent publicity about cyber-attacks and data security breaches has increased IT risk awareness among CIOs, chief information security officers (CISOs) and senior business executives. However, Gartner's 2013 Global Risk Management Survey found that fear of attack is...
Healthy six months for Vodacom
Vodacom has reported a group revenue increase of 6,6%, a service revenue increase of 2%, strong growth in international operations and improved growth trends in South Africa for the latest six month period. Group active customers increased 9,7% to 53,8-million; with...
Telkom revises innovation challenge rules
Telkom has revised the rules of the Open Innovation Mega Challenge to ensure that participating innovators and the company are well protected with regard to the ownership of intellectual property rights. Initially the rules of competition were designed to mitigate...
Successful TV white spaces trial concludes
Google, WAPA and partners have successfully concluded a television white spaces (TVWS) trial with 10 schools in the Cape Town area that began in March this year. TV white spaces are unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum that offer the potential to improve...
Standard Bank app arrives for Nokia Lumia
There is a rush of new great applications coming to the Windows Phone Store, and one of South Africa’s leading banks have added theirs to the growing catalogue. The Standard Bank app brings a wide range of features designed to make on-the-go banking easy and secure....
Secure operating environment key for cloud
Increasing levels of adoption of the cloud is driving urgency around the need for a secure operating environment and the skills necessary to maintain this environment. Cloud services experts like Gavin Lingenfelder, cloud services lead at Pamoja, believe good...
School-leavers do have choices
According to Statistics South Africa the country’s unemployment figure now stands at 25,06% and competition for jobs, particularly in sectors such as ICT, retail and manufacturing, is on the rise. HR and recruitment specialists believe that the more information about...
AxizWorkgroup is tops again
AxizWorkgroup has once again scooped the prestigious Channelwise Distributor of the Year Award, having been voted by resellers as their favourite distribution partner for 2013. The distributor swept the boards, winning no fewer than five out of eight category awards:...
Who SA’s enterprise resellers voted for …
HP once again swept the boards in the 2013 Channelwise Awards, as voted by Large/Enterprise resellers – although some surprise contenders have come through this year to challenge the vendor’s dominance in the South African market. Enterprise resellers were asked to...
SME/consumer resellers make their mark
South Africa’s SME and consumer resellers have cast their votes in the 2013 Channelwise Awards, and named their favourite vendors. In the Consumer category, Seagate took top honours as the disk drive vendor of choice, with Nvidia as the graphics cards supplier. Intel...
Printer market starts to recover
The overall Western European hardcopy market showed year-on-year growth for the second quarter in a row as the total market increased 3,6% in the third quarter of 2013 to over 5,76-million units, compared with 5,56-million units a year ago, according to International...
Olympic torch back from space
The Olympic torch that will be used to open the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, has completed a sojourn in space and this morning landed back on Earth. The torch arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and was...
Financial challenges limit EAS growth
Overall enterprise applications software (EAS) spending in South Africa is set to increase 10,5% year-on-year in 2014 to total $518,45-million, according to the latest South Africa Enterprise Applications Software Market 2013–2017 Forecast from International Data...
Fear of cyber-threats leaves systems exposed
Recent publicity about cyber-attacks and data security breaches has increased IT risk awareness among CIOs, chief information security officers (CISOs) and senior business executives. However, Gartner's 2013 Global Risk Management Survey found that fear of attack is...