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BYOD seen as growing security threat
Only about 17% of companies in South Africa have a fully developed mobile device security policy for their corporate networks. Meanwhile, the number of IT security incidents involving cell phones and tablets is on the rise, and most companies have no plans to limit...
MTN slashes African call rates
MTN has introduced what it believes to be the lowest international call rates to the key African destinations of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria, Lesotho and Swaziland from as little as R0,75c per minute. “We are introducing an offering that would address the growing...
Thin clients on slow road to recovery
Thin client shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in Q213 increased marginally by 0,1% year-on-year to 407 417 units, according to results published by International Data Corporation (IDC) in its EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker. After...
Acer Africa confirms management changes
Acer Africa has confirmed senior executive changes, with Hans Swart to leave the company and David Drummond to take the reins, as reported in IT-Online last week. According to a company statement, after careful consideration, Swart has made the decision to pursue his...
Trend Micro signs up Cloud on Demand
Global security software vendor Trend Micro has appointed Cloud on Demand, a South African cloud vendor and hybrid cloud enablement partner, as its first XSP (cloud) partner in the southern African region. Through its technology assets and its software-defined data...
IBM, Synnex deal is big news for BPO
This week’s announcement of Synnex’s $505-million acquisition of IBM’s customer services business is big news for the customer relationship management (CRM) business process outsourcing (BPO) market, according to Margaret Goldberg, IT services analyst at Ovum. Synnex...
Flat growth for EMEA disk storage
The external disk storage systems market value in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) remained almost flat in 2Q13, growing by 0,5% year on year to $1,77-billion, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from International Data...
Etisalat goes big with M2M
Etisalat Group, a telecoms operator in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has pioneered machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and is gearing up to showcase the industry’s potential. Khalifa Al Shamsi, chief digital services officer at Etisalat, says: “Having launched a...
Android under the threat spotlight
In a short space of time, Android has claimed the lion’s share of the mobile market - in fact, more than 900-million Android mobile devices have now been activated. Unfortunately, this popularity has put a large target on the platform’s back. This popularity among...
The dark side of cloud
In every technology publication I open, every business symposium I attend, every CIO roundtable I facilitate, we hear about the next wave of change branded “cloud”, says Rudie Raath, chief technologist and country manager: Presales, Cloud & Strategic Pursuit, HP...
People key in mobile’s future
There is not one mobile future but rather 7-billion futures, according to Intel Fellow and anthropologist Dr Genevieve Bell. Addressing the Intel Developer Forum, Dr Bell (pictured left) described how the human being has always been, and will continue to be, the...
IS launches hosted Microsoft Lync 2013
Internet Solutions (IS) is to offer Microsoft Lync 2013, an enterprise-ready unified communications platform, as a hosted solution. The announcement comes at a time when mid- to enterprise-sized businesses globally are looking to mobility and unified communications...
Ig Nobel Prize for dung beetles in boots
Dung beetles sporting custom-made caps and boots entered the annals of the Ig Nobel Prize when South Africa’s second ever winner was announced during the 23rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony held at Harvard University last week. Professor Marcus Byrne from Wits...
BYOD seen as growing security threat
Only about 17% of companies in South Africa have a fully developed mobile device security policy for their corporate networks. Meanwhile, the number of IT security incidents involving cell phones and tablets is on the rise, and most companies have no plans to limit...
MTN slashes African call rates
MTN has introduced what it believes to be the lowest international call rates to the key African destinations of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria, Lesotho and Swaziland from as little as R0,75c per minute. “We are introducing an offering that would address the growing...
Thin clients on slow road to recovery
Thin client shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in Q213 increased marginally by 0,1% year-on-year to 407 417 units, according to results published by International Data Corporation (IDC) in its EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker. After...
Acer Africa confirms management changes
Acer Africa has confirmed senior executive changes, with Hans Swart to leave the company and David Drummond to take the reins, as reported in IT-Online last week. According to a company statement, after careful consideration, Swart has made the decision to pursue his...
Trend Micro signs up Cloud on Demand
Global security software vendor Trend Micro has appointed Cloud on Demand, a South African cloud vendor and hybrid cloud enablement partner, as its first XSP (cloud) partner in the southern African region. Through its technology assets and its software-defined data...
IBM, Synnex deal is big news for BPO
This week’s announcement of Synnex’s $505-million acquisition of IBM’s customer services business is big news for the customer relationship management (CRM) business process outsourcing (BPO) market, according to Margaret Goldberg, IT services analyst at Ovum. Synnex...
Flat growth for EMEA disk storage
The external disk storage systems market value in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) remained almost flat in 2Q13, growing by 0,5% year on year to $1,77-billion, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from International Data...