Technology News
Trend Micro grows SA presence
Global security software vendor Trend Micro is furthering its investment and presence in the southern Africa region. “The South African market has an incredibly high growth potential. In fact when we decided to take a closer look at the market and map its potential in...
Pule guilty of misleading Parliament
Former Minister of Communications Dina Pule has been found guilty of wilfully misleading MPs by Parliament’s Ethics Committee. Briefing media yesterday, the committee said she will be reprimanded by speaker Max Sisulu. In addition, Pule will be suspended from...
Sales model, not product, key to success
One of the biggest barriers to innovation in the traditional technology providers' sales model is lack of flexibility to reinvent themselves without placing quarterly revenues at risk, according to Gartner. "As technology has continued its unprecedented advance in...
More competition in application management
Newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) research shows that the worldwide and US discrete application management (AM) services market reached nearly $50-billion in 2012. The top 10 vendors in the market, as measured by total discrete AM revenues,...
Open source software is gaining ground
Software is eating the business world and open source software is eating the software world, said Johann Evans, chief technical officer at Cherry Olive, the unified data management specialists. “We can see open source software maturing and coming of age – and its...
NEC releases new flagship display
NEC Display Solutions Europe has a new flagship for its popular V Series range of large format displays in the MultiSync V801, a fully-featured 80-inch display that offers both outstanding performance and good value for money. Despite its size, the V801 is designed to...
Orange offers new mobile payment services
Orange has announced a new set of mobile payment services in conjunction with Visa for Orange Money subscribers. Botswana will be the first country to benefit from the new programme and will allow easy access to funds 24 hours a day, bringing new point-of-sale, online...
Cherry Olive, Ontology ink partnership
Cherry Olive, the unified data management specialists, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ontology Systems, the semantic search company for structured enterprise application data. Johann Evans, chief technical officer (CTO) of Cherry Olive, said his...
Sybaweb implements Kaseya solution
Sybaweb, a South African IT service and solution provider, has successfully undertaken a country-wide and continental expansion plan, having identified a growing demand for outsourced managed services. In order to ensure Sybaweb’s growth, the company turned to Kaseya,...
A new kind of customer engagement
The rise of smart devices and a focus on customer loyalty has created the proverbial "perfect storm" for enterprises that want to reinvent the customer experience around smartphones and tablets, says Deon Scheepers, strategic consultant EMEA Interactive Intelligence....
SA could cut government admin by 20%
The South African government could cut administrative costs by as much as 15% to 20% if it were to access information securely and process documents more efficiently, based on effective document process optimisation. Those results are based on the efficiency spike...
New Altron TMT structure revealed
New details have been released about the structure of Altron TMT (telecommunications, multimedia and information technology), the new division at Altron, to be headed up by Craig Venter, current CEO of Allied Technologies (Altech). Altron TMT comprises of Altech and...
Massive PC decline for Western Europe
PC shipments in Western Europe totalled 10,9-million units in the second quarter of 2013, a decline of 19,8% compared with the same period in 2012, according to Gartner. "The market exit of the netbook PC, and vendors reducing their inventory to get the new Intel...
Trend Micro grows SA presence
Global security software vendor Trend Micro is furthering its investment and presence in the southern Africa region. “The South African market has an incredibly high growth potential. In fact when we decided to take a closer look at the market and map its potential in...
Pule guilty of misleading Parliament
Former Minister of Communications Dina Pule has been found guilty of wilfully misleading MPs by Parliament’s Ethics Committee. Briefing media yesterday, the committee said she will be reprimanded by speaker Max Sisulu. In addition, Pule will be suspended from...
Sales model, not product, key to success
One of the biggest barriers to innovation in the traditional technology providers' sales model is lack of flexibility to reinvent themselves without placing quarterly revenues at risk, according to Gartner. "As technology has continued its unprecedented advance in...
More competition in application management
Newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) research shows that the worldwide and US discrete application management (AM) services market reached nearly $50-billion in 2012. The top 10 vendors in the market, as measured by total discrete AM revenues,...
Open source software is gaining ground
Software is eating the business world and open source software is eating the software world, said Johann Evans, chief technical officer at Cherry Olive, the unified data management specialists. “We can see open source software maturing and coming of age – and its...
NEC releases new flagship display
NEC Display Solutions Europe has a new flagship for its popular V Series range of large format displays in the MultiSync V801, a fully-featured 80-inch display that offers both outstanding performance and good value for money. Despite its size, the V801 is designed to...
Orange offers new mobile payment services
Orange has announced a new set of mobile payment services in conjunction with Visa for Orange Money subscribers. Botswana will be the first country to benefit from the new programme and will allow easy access to funds 24 hours a day, bringing new point-of-sale, online...