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Virtual tourism taking off in SA
In January this year, 600 000 viewers across the world tuned in to watch Nina the chimp give birth live on camera via Vox Telecom’s YahClick satellite connection at the Jane Goodall Chimp Eden Institute in Mpumalanga – and this is just the tip of the iceberg for live...
How to empower women to benefit nations
Research demonstrates that when women are economically empowered, communities and nations benefit – but there are questions around how to best achieve women empowerment. The United Nations Foundation and the ExxonMobil Foundation announced today a new evidence-based...
Hartman to head up Sage HR Africa
Gerhard Hartman has been appointed as the Head of Sage HR Africa, a new business unit for Sage South Africa. Sage HR Africa is a joint venture between Sage VIP and Sage Pastel Payroll & HR’s international divisions. The new business unit will focus on HR and...
Mustek is Huawei’s top IP distributor
Mustek was named as Huawei Enterprise’s Best Distributor of the Year for Internet Protocol (IP) at the company’s annual awards ceremony. The IP category includes all Huawei Enterprise’s router, switching, wireless and security products. Siobhan Hanvey, Huawei business...
Samsung signs up with DStv for mobile TV
Samsung South Africa has announced an exclusive agreement with DStv, to offer consumers increased freedom and mobility to enjoy broadcast TV entertainment. As consumers continue to demand engagement across multiple platforms, Galaxy Tablet and Drifta Mobile decoder...
Remote realtime data recovery from CSSI
Computer Storage Services (CSSI) has announced the release of its real time remote data recovery service. Now, should a client experience a data loss event, hard drive crash or data corruption, a CSSI engineer can remote log-in and recover the data onsite. CSSI has...
NetTraveler is back with new tricks
Kaspersky Lab researchers have announced a new attack vector of NetTraveler (also known as “Travnet”, “Netfile” or "Red Star" APT), an advanced persistent threat that has already infected hundreds of high profile victims in more than 40 countries. Known targets of...
Accounting for the value of data in business
While IT staff talk about "data as an asset" rather glibly in the boardroom, the value of digital information in an organisation is interpreted quite differently from the accounting department's perspective, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management (MDM)....
BDS bolsters colour printing with Impika
Following Xerox’s acquisition of France-based industrial inkjet manufacturer Impika, authorised Xerox distributor Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), has released the Impika iPrint Compact printer in South Africa. Impika technology will help Xerox compete in the...
Outsource service management infrastructure
There is a rising trend amongst tower companies across the African continent to outsource their service management portfolio. The question that begs answering however is why? Why would a business look to outsource such a key component of its organisation and what...
Liquid Telecoms adds VSAT across Africa
Netherlands-based satellite communications specialist Newtec has signed an agreement to provide a VSAT broadband hub and thousands of VSAT terminals to Liquid Telecom, to be installed in Johannesburg. Liquid Telecom has built Africa’s largest single fibre network...
WAPA makes waves in SA broadband arena
The Wireless Access Providers Association (WAPA) is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the local broadband industry, having announced a 25% increase in its membership for the year ended. “The increase in our membership to 164 dynamic wireless operators...
Security breaches often happen by mistake
Employee error is one of the main causes of internal IT security incidents which lead to the leakage of confidential corporate data, according to the findings of the Global Corporate IT Security Risks 2013 survey by B2B International in collaboration with Kaspersky...
Virtual tourism taking off in SA
In January this year, 600 000 viewers across the world tuned in to watch Nina the chimp give birth live on camera via Vox Telecom’s YahClick satellite connection at the Jane Goodall Chimp Eden Institute in Mpumalanga – and this is just the tip of the iceberg for live...
How to empower women to benefit nations
Research demonstrates that when women are economically empowered, communities and nations benefit – but there are questions around how to best achieve women empowerment. The United Nations Foundation and the ExxonMobil Foundation announced today a new evidence-based...
Hartman to head up Sage HR Africa
Gerhard Hartman has been appointed as the Head of Sage HR Africa, a new business unit for Sage South Africa. Sage HR Africa is a joint venture between Sage VIP and Sage Pastel Payroll & HR’s international divisions. The new business unit will focus on HR and...
Mustek is Huawei’s top IP distributor
Mustek was named as Huawei Enterprise’s Best Distributor of the Year for Internet Protocol (IP) at the company’s annual awards ceremony. The IP category includes all Huawei Enterprise’s router, switching, wireless and security products. Siobhan Hanvey, Huawei business...
Samsung signs up with DStv for mobile TV
Samsung South Africa has announced an exclusive agreement with DStv, to offer consumers increased freedom and mobility to enjoy broadcast TV entertainment. As consumers continue to demand engagement across multiple platforms, Galaxy Tablet and Drifta Mobile decoder...
Remote realtime data recovery from CSSI
Computer Storage Services (CSSI) has announced the release of its real time remote data recovery service. Now, should a client experience a data loss event, hard drive crash or data corruption, a CSSI engineer can remote log-in and recover the data onsite. CSSI has...
NetTraveler is back with new tricks
Kaspersky Lab researchers have announced a new attack vector of NetTraveler (also known as “Travnet”, “Netfile” or "Red Star" APT), an advanced persistent threat that has already infected hundreds of high profile victims in more than 40 countries. Known targets of...