Technology News
Customers now drive business strategy
Despite expressing an unprecedented commitment to direct customer influence on their business decisions and operations, one-third of CEOs worry that the rest of the C-suite is out of touch with customers, according to a new IBM study. The study, entitled The...
The dawning of the digital industrial age
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3,8-trillion in 2014, a 3,6% increase from 2013, but it’s the opportunities of a digital world that have IT leaders excited, according to Gartner. This results in every budget being an IT budget; every company being a...
SAP, World Bank partner on African skills
SAP Africa and the World Bank have announced their intention to develop a framework for collaboration on skills development. The document was signed by Pfungwa Serima, CEO of SAP Africa, who is currently in the US for a series of meetings focused on refining synergies...
New technology aims to make cities safer
A vision of safer cities that includes connected police officers, realtime crime centres, next generation patrol vehicles and an integrated communications centre was unveiled in Johannesburg today by Motorola Solutions. The company launched an array of high-tech...
Online fraud victims left high and dry
At least 41% of users who lost their money as the result of financial cyber-fraud failed to get a single cent returned to them. This is according to a Kaspersky consumer security risks survey conducted by B2B International. In theory, even if scammers have managed to...
Technology helps to drive SME success
Tech-savvy small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) created more new jobs and drove more revenue gains over the past three years than SMEs using little technology, according to new research commissioned by Microsoft and independently conducted by The Boston...
New services director for Westcon-Comztek
Westcon-Comztek has appointed Hanle Carver as its new services director. The services component of the organisation is a growing part of the distributor’s business, and includes its much sought after backup stock, proofing and staging as well as business readiness...
Altron reports improved revenues
Allied Electronics (Altron) has increased revenue by 6% to R13-billion for the six months ended 31 August 2013. During the period, normalised earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased 5% to R871-million against the comparative...
Datacentrix revenue tops R1bn
Datacentrix has reported revenue in excess of R1-billion for the six months ended 31 August 2013. During the period, EBITDA increased by 22% to R70,1-million, with the operating margin increasing by 11% to 5,5%. Earnings per share and headline earnings per share...
Obami puts matric past papers online
Local social learning platform Obami has released past matric papers online, which learners can access via Obami’s online Assignment app. The interactive online papers are available for free, and were all created by crowdsourcing the skills of university students....
BT lauches HD collaboration services
BT has announced the launch of a series of new services that promise to transform the quality of business conversations and greatly improve the way people work together within and between large organisations. Meetings using conferencing services, video and online...
Grab a cab with SnappCab
Getting around town has never been easier now that SnappCab, the taxi aggregating app, has launched in Johannesburg, with Cape Town and Durban to follow hot on its heels. It is the one smartphone app that everyone needs, from socialites getting to and from the hottest...
SA scientists reveal comet
The first-ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding, creating a shock wave of fire which obliterated every life form in its path, has been discovered by a team of South African scientists and international collaborators, and will be presented...
Customers now drive business strategy
Despite expressing an unprecedented commitment to direct customer influence on their business decisions and operations, one-third of CEOs worry that the rest of the C-suite is out of touch with customers, according to a new IBM study. The study, entitled The...
The dawning of the digital industrial age
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3,8-trillion in 2014, a 3,6% increase from 2013, but it’s the opportunities of a digital world that have IT leaders excited, according to Gartner. This results in every budget being an IT budget; every company being a...
SAP, World Bank partner on African skills
SAP Africa and the World Bank have announced their intention to develop a framework for collaboration on skills development. The document was signed by Pfungwa Serima, CEO of SAP Africa, who is currently in the US for a series of meetings focused on refining synergies...
New technology aims to make cities safer
A vision of safer cities that includes connected police officers, realtime crime centres, next generation patrol vehicles and an integrated communications centre was unveiled in Johannesburg today by Motorola Solutions. The company launched an array of high-tech...
Online fraud victims left high and dry
At least 41% of users who lost their money as the result of financial cyber-fraud failed to get a single cent returned to them. This is according to a Kaspersky consumer security risks survey conducted by B2B International. In theory, even if scammers have managed to...
Technology helps to drive SME success
Tech-savvy small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) created more new jobs and drove more revenue gains over the past three years than SMEs using little technology, according to new research commissioned by Microsoft and independently conducted by The Boston...
New services director for Westcon-Comztek
Westcon-Comztek has appointed Hanle Carver as its new services director. The services component of the organisation is a growing part of the distributor’s business, and includes its much sought after backup stock, proofing and staging as well as business readiness...