Technology News
Channel central to Acer’s expansion plans
Kathy Gibson reporting from Amsterdam - Acer has made a commitment – coupled with major investments – to the commercial market, aiming to become a serious contender in the B2B environment. As a historically channel-centric company, it has developed a partner strategy...
Acer focuses on education
Kathy Gibson reporting from Amsterdam - Education is a focused market area for Acer, and one that it is aggressively pursuing across the EMEA region. Walter Deppeler, senior corporate vice-president of Acer, explains that the company has set up a focused geographical...
Mthatha Heritage Festival kicks off
A project to plant 15 000 indigenous trees in the Eastern Cape kicked off in Mthatha on Friday (20 September). Marking the inaugural Mthatha Heritage Festival, Champions of the Environment Foundation chairman Bantu Holomisa said that culture should be defined not only...
Samsung launches Smart School in Sudan
Samsung Electronics Africa has launched its Smart School solution at the Ahfad University for Women in Khartoum, Sudan. The solution is a fully integrated one-on-one learning platform that enables teachers to deliver an interactive learning experience and provides...
China hits imports with 6% tax charge
A new decision by China to place a 6% VAT charge on freight and related costs is going to have an impact on the importing price from China. This is according to Asgar Mahomed, MD of Esquire Technologies, who says the new Chinese policy means all freight charges paid...
Interactive Intelligence wins F&S award
Interactive Intelligence, a global provider of software and services designed to improve the customer experience, has received the 2013 EMEA Frost & Sullivan Contact Centre Company of the Year Award. The award is based on Frost & Sullivan’s recent research...
Gumtree enters next phase of growth
Gumtree, South Africa’s free online classifieds Web site, is entering the next phase of growth as it reaches beyond the metros into the heart of the country and adds new categories of goods and services users can buy, sell and trade. The popular website announced a...
Samsung releases Galaxy S4 Active
Samsung Electronics South Africa, a leader in mobile technology and digital solutions, confirmed the availability of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. This device has been designed to enhance the active user’s life experiences, who want to stay connected while exploring...
DCC named Best Huawei Distributor in IT
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has been awarded 2012 Best Huawei Distributor in IT for storage systems and servers at the annual Huawei Channel Marketing Conference. This is the second Huawei award received by DCC, who also won the 2011 Outstanding...
Gijima named top Huawei partner
Gijima, a leading JSE-listed IT company, last week received the Top Performing Partner in Mining award from Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. "Gijima has a long-standing relationship with Huawei and we are...
Oracle transforming into cloud company
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bunked his keynote today for a climactic America’s Cup, but executive vice-president for product development, Thomas Kurian, ably picked up the ball and made three new cloud announcements he...
OpenWorld: not just tech and yachts
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – The America’s Cup and OpenWorld are not the only reasons Oracle is in the headlines this week – local TV news stations have been prominently featuring a lawsuit that a San Francisco strip club has brought against the...
Big data set to go mainstream
Big data investments in 2013 continue to rise, with 64% of organisations investing or planning to invest in big data technology compared with 58% in 2012, according to a survey by Gartner. However, less than 8% of survey respondents have actually deployed. "The hype...
Channel central to Acer’s expansion plans
Kathy Gibson reporting from Amsterdam - Acer has made a commitment – coupled with major investments – to the commercial market, aiming to become a serious contender in the B2B environment. As a historically channel-centric company, it has developed a partner strategy...
Acer focuses on education
Kathy Gibson reporting from Amsterdam - Education is a focused market area for Acer, and one that it is aggressively pursuing across the EMEA region. Walter Deppeler, senior corporate vice-president of Acer, explains that the company has set up a focused geographical...
Mthatha Heritage Festival kicks off
A project to plant 15 000 indigenous trees in the Eastern Cape kicked off in Mthatha on Friday (20 September). Marking the inaugural Mthatha Heritage Festival, Champions of the Environment Foundation chairman Bantu Holomisa said that culture should be defined not only...
Samsung launches Smart School in Sudan
Samsung Electronics Africa has launched its Smart School solution at the Ahfad University for Women in Khartoum, Sudan. The solution is a fully integrated one-on-one learning platform that enables teachers to deliver an interactive learning experience and provides...
China hits imports with 6% tax charge
A new decision by China to place a 6% VAT charge on freight and related costs is going to have an impact on the importing price from China. This is according to Asgar Mahomed, MD of Esquire Technologies, who says the new Chinese policy means all freight charges paid...
Interactive Intelligence wins F&S award
Interactive Intelligence, a global provider of software and services designed to improve the customer experience, has received the 2013 EMEA Frost & Sullivan Contact Centre Company of the Year Award. The award is based on Frost & Sullivan’s recent research...
Gumtree enters next phase of growth
Gumtree, South Africa’s free online classifieds Web site, is entering the next phase of growth as it reaches beyond the metros into the heart of the country and adds new categories of goods and services users can buy, sell and trade. The popular website announced a...