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Wits graduates among the most employable
Wits University was the only African university chosen by top international recruiters to be ranked in the Global Employability University Ranking, published in the New York Times recently. The Global Employability University Ranking is a list of the top universities...
Ireland aims to grow SA trade
On the back of growing trade between Ireland and South Africa, Ireland’s Minister for Trade and Development, Joe Costello TD, will lead the third Enterprise Ireland trade mission to South Africa this week. The trade mission, arranged by the Irish trade and technology...
Ericsson to showcase Radio Dot System
The recently launched Ericsson Radio Dot System, a disc-shaped cellular radio that is small enough to fit a person’s hand, will be showcased at Ericsson’s stand during the 2013 edition of AfricaCom, scheduled to take place at the Cape Town International Convention...
Automotive industry needs SCM
The South African automotive sector is plagued by uncontrollable factors such as strike and labour action, port delays due to weather and congestion, unreliable rail infrastructure and high costs for road transportation. This is according to Rob Williams, Business...
Fujitsu redefines storage with Eternus DX
Fujitsu has introduced a new era of business-centric storage, with new-generation Eternus DX systems that are the industry’s first to put business priorities ahead of storage, easing IT challenges such as the management of ever increasing volumes of critical data....
Niche legal services grow in Africa
The offering of niche legal services in the field of technology, telecommunication and media in Africa is firmly set to become a trend in the coming years. As a result, legal firms in particular must diversify their portfolios in order to remain relevant in the...
Kaspersky patents new technology
Kaspersky Lab has announced that it has been granted a US patent on a system which helps to detect malware modified using packers or encryptors which have not previously been identified by researchers. The technology is already integrated into the company’s key...
KEMP introduces new load balancers
KEMP Technologies has announced the availability of three new virtual load balancers — the Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) 200, 2000 and 5000, to the local market. These new virtual load balancers dramatically increases application performance enabling customers to deploy...
SA and IT outsourcing in the coming years
With the South African IT services market expected to reach R53,3-billion by 2015, according to BMI TechKnowledge’s (BMI-T) South African IT Services Market Sizing and Forecast, and it is safe to say there is still considerable opportunity for IT players in their...
Ending server sprawl
Companies face important IT challenges today. Not only do they have to deploy and run their business applications with agility, but their infrastructures need to scale to support growth while maintaining quality of service – all in a cost-effective manner, says...
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...
Wits graduates among the most employable
Wits University was the only African university chosen by top international recruiters to be ranked in the Global Employability University Ranking, published in the New York Times recently. The Global Employability University Ranking is a list of the top universities...
Ireland aims to grow SA trade
On the back of growing trade between Ireland and South Africa, Ireland’s Minister for Trade and Development, Joe Costello TD, will lead the third Enterprise Ireland trade mission to South Africa this week. The trade mission, arranged by the Irish trade and technology...
Ericsson to showcase Radio Dot System
The recently launched Ericsson Radio Dot System, a disc-shaped cellular radio that is small enough to fit a person’s hand, will be showcased at Ericsson’s stand during the 2013 edition of AfricaCom, scheduled to take place at the Cape Town International Convention...
Automotive industry needs SCM
The South African automotive sector is plagued by uncontrollable factors such as strike and labour action, port delays due to weather and congestion, unreliable rail infrastructure and high costs for road transportation. This is according to Rob Williams, Business...
Fujitsu redefines storage with Eternus DX
Fujitsu has introduced a new era of business-centric storage, with new-generation Eternus DX systems that are the industry’s first to put business priorities ahead of storage, easing IT challenges such as the management of ever increasing volumes of critical data....
Niche legal services grow in Africa
The offering of niche legal services in the field of technology, telecommunication and media in Africa is firmly set to become a trend in the coming years. As a result, legal firms in particular must diversify their portfolios in order to remain relevant in the...
Kaspersky patents new technology
Kaspersky Lab has announced that it has been granted a US patent on a system which helps to detect malware modified using packers or encryptors which have not previously been identified by researchers. The technology is already integrated into the company’s key...