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Companies require mobile strategies
It just cannot be ignored: mobile devices have drastically shifted the online landscape to the point where companies need to ensure that they are in a position to easily sell to mobile users – or else risk the chance of missing a fast-emerging market, says Derick...
Social software drives innovation
Collaborative customer interfaces, social co-browsing, mobile virtual worlds and social TV are just a few of the innovations on the rise in the Gartner 2013 Hype Cycle for Social Software. The adoption and use of social technologies, techniques and capabilities have...
Growth in WLAN market still healthy
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 10,8% year over year in the second quarter of 2013, according to IDC. The research group says the enterprise segment continued to grow at a very healthy rate...
Google calls for Africa Connected entries
Has your life been changed by the Internet? Then you could stand the chance of winning $25 000 and the opportunity to work with a Google sponsor over a six-month period. Google is calling on entrepreneurs, creatives, innovators and Web-lovers across Africa to share...
Curiosity seen from space
An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released today shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the "Glenelg" area where the rover worked for the first half of 2013. The orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science...
Toshiba’s Tablet Race sets off
Toshiba has launched the Toshiba Tablet Race competition in South Africa, which aims to build brand awareness by engaging with targeted audiences through social platforms. The race will offer more than R150 000 in prizes. The competition culminates in an online...
Western European LFP market contracts
The Western European large-format printer (LFP) market has declined in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), with shipments falling by 14,6% year-on-year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). With the exception of a few Scandinavian markets, Western...
Document scanner market grows in 2Q13
The Western European document scanner market has shown growth in the second quarter of 2013, increasing by 29,9% year-on-year to approximately 89 000 units. This is according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Western European Quarterly Document Scanner...
VMware expands data centre portfolio
Addressing the needs of organisations to simplify IT, VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has at VMworld 2013 announced a wave of new products and services designed to help IT accelerate its adoption of a software-defined data centre...
Important protocols for automation systems
Four decades ago, building automation comprised of simple control panels with switches and timers. By 2003, industry standards were being established, says Neil Cameron of Johnson Controls System & Service Africa. More than 10 such standards, each supporting...
Veeam boosts offsite backup times
Bandwidth constraints and costs are the single biggest reason many Africa-based organisations have avoided remote backups, choosing rather to store hard copies off site. But new technology from Veeam offers the ability to create offsite backups over a network, even...
HP announces Converged Storage innovations
HP recently announced new HP Converged Storage innovations that enable customers to maximise the return on investment (ROI) of their virtual infrastructure by lowering costs while increasing agility and capacity utilisation. Extending its six-year leadership in...
BYOD: securing the mobile business
Mobile threats are growing exponentially, as a flood of mobile devices is hitting the enterprise. If the past is anything to go by, 2013 will see an unprecedented number of threats hitting the mobile enterprise. Over and above lost and stolen devices, there are...
Companies require mobile strategies
It just cannot be ignored: mobile devices have drastically shifted the online landscape to the point where companies need to ensure that they are in a position to easily sell to mobile users – or else risk the chance of missing a fast-emerging market, says Derick...
Social software drives innovation
Collaborative customer interfaces, social co-browsing, mobile virtual worlds and social TV are just a few of the innovations on the rise in the Gartner 2013 Hype Cycle for Social Software. The adoption and use of social technologies, techniques and capabilities have...
Growth in WLAN market still healthy
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 10,8% year over year in the second quarter of 2013, according to IDC. The research group says the enterprise segment continued to grow at a very healthy rate...
Google calls for Africa Connected entries
Has your life been changed by the Internet? Then you could stand the chance of winning $25 000 and the opportunity to work with a Google sponsor over a six-month period. Google is calling on entrepreneurs, creatives, innovators and Web-lovers across Africa to share...
Curiosity seen from space
An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released today shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the "Glenelg" area where the rover worked for the first half of 2013. The orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science...
Toshiba’s Tablet Race sets off
Toshiba has launched the Toshiba Tablet Race competition in South Africa, which aims to build brand awareness by engaging with targeted audiences through social platforms. The race will offer more than R150 000 in prizes. The competition culminates in an online...
Western European LFP market contracts
The Western European large-format printer (LFP) market has declined in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), with shipments falling by 14,6% year-on-year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). With the exception of a few Scandinavian markets, Western...