Technology News
Logicalis acquires iConsult in Jersey
Datatec subsidiary Logicalis Group has acquired iConsult (Jersey), a Channel Islands based provider of hosted desktop and mail solutions. The transaction will be made through Logicalis’ wholly owned local subsidiary Logicalis Jersey. The transaction will strengthen...
All is social on the Y-front
Generation Y-ers have been the subject of many workplace studies. Ys are criticised for being overly insistent on their value to the organisation and “too precious” about the myriad career choices open to them, but they have also justly been credited with driving much...
BlackBerry tries to reassure users
Struggling for its very survival, smartphone maker BlackBerry has sent out an open letter to its users, urging them not to give up on the technology. This move could be particularly pertinent for South Africa, one of BlackBerry’s biggest and most successful markets,...
Apple bites at online retailer
A year after being sued by Apple for using its logo on its Web site, Pretoria online retailer The Notebook Company is again in a legal wrangle with the IT giant over the use of various domain names. The company complied with Apple’s logo demand last year and replaced...
AxizWorkgroup re-enters security market
AxizWorkgroup has re-entered the home and business security market by signing a distribution agreement with MICROmega Security Solutions. MICROmega’s flagship product, 2Way iConnect, provides users with remote access to their alarm system via a mobile app, or logging...
Kaseya offers new monitoring solution
Kaseya, a leading provider of IT systems management software, today announced the general availability of Kaseya Traverse. Traverse is a powerful solution, now delivered as SaaS, that delivers enterprise-class network performance monitoring, business service...
Sony introduces the VAIO Tap 11
Sony has introduced the world’s thinnest Windows tablet PC: the VAIO Tap 11. The device aims to fulfil every user’s PC needs despite its remarkable weight and size. It features a tablet form that offers the same ease of use as a conventional notebook, as well as with...
Piecemeal mobile is not a solution
Taking your enterprise applications mobile in a fragmented fashion simply adds to enterprise IT complexity, warns HansaWorld. The global enterprise is going mobile, and users want all their most business-critical applications available on their mobile devices. But...
Smart machines impact business
Sixty percent of CEOs believe that the emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of middle-class jobs within 15 years is a "futurist fantasy", according to Gartner's 2013 CEO survey. However, Gartner predicts that smart machines will have widespread...
Microsoft looks for start-ups in Africa
Microsoft has expanded its Microsoft Ventures partnership programme into Africa, and has selected Nairobi innovation centre 88mph as its first African accelerator partner. Microsoft Ventures was introduced in June as a coordinated global effort to offer tools,...
IDC ranks data protection vendors
CommVault, EMC, and Symantec are leaders in the European data protection and recovery software market, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) vendor assessment and market analysis study profiling and ranking the leading providers in the data...
Nokia, T2T set out to map Africa
Nokia is partnering with the Tsitsikamma to Tataouine Expedition (T2T) to build HERE map content for the African continent. The expedition, which headed off from Tsitsikamma in South Africa on 5 October, sees three intrepid explorers travel across 24 countries in...
Records management site goes up in flames
The board of directors of Metrofile advises that a fire occurred at one of the Metrofile Records Management KwaZulu-Natal facilities on Friday evening, 11 October 2013. The fire was contained by the following day and fortunately no one was injured. The company has...
Logicalis acquires iConsult in Jersey
Datatec subsidiary Logicalis Group has acquired iConsult (Jersey), a Channel Islands based provider of hosted desktop and mail solutions. The transaction will be made through Logicalis’ wholly owned local subsidiary Logicalis Jersey. The transaction will strengthen...
All is social on the Y-front
Generation Y-ers have been the subject of many workplace studies. Ys are criticised for being overly insistent on their value to the organisation and “too precious” about the myriad career choices open to them, but they have also justly been credited with driving much...
BlackBerry tries to reassure users
Struggling for its very survival, smartphone maker BlackBerry has sent out an open letter to its users, urging them not to give up on the technology. This move could be particularly pertinent for South Africa, one of BlackBerry’s biggest and most successful markets,...
Apple bites at online retailer
A year after being sued by Apple for using its logo on its Web site, Pretoria online retailer The Notebook Company is again in a legal wrangle with the IT giant over the use of various domain names. The company complied with Apple’s logo demand last year and replaced...
AxizWorkgroup re-enters security market
AxizWorkgroup has re-entered the home and business security market by signing a distribution agreement with MICROmega Security Solutions. MICROmega’s flagship product, 2Way iConnect, provides users with remote access to their alarm system via a mobile app, or logging...
Kaseya offers new monitoring solution
Kaseya, a leading provider of IT systems management software, today announced the general availability of Kaseya Traverse. Traverse is a powerful solution, now delivered as SaaS, that delivers enterprise-class network performance monitoring, business service...
Sony introduces the VAIO Tap 11
Sony has introduced the world’s thinnest Windows tablet PC: the VAIO Tap 11. The device aims to fulfil every user’s PC needs despite its remarkable weight and size. It features a tablet form that offers the same ease of use as a conventional notebook, as well as with...