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100% discount for FNB’s uncapped ADSL
FNB has announced an uncapped ADSL product with discounts of up to 100% on monthly subscription fees, applicable for qualifying customers who sign up from 8 August 2013. Qualifying personal cheque account holders and FNB private client customers can receive between...
EMEA thin client market contracts
Following three years of growth, thin client shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have declined by 4,2% year-on-year in Q1 2013 to 406 138 units, according to results published by IDC in its EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker. Despite...
LED oversupply set to continue
Despite a major surplus in the light-emitting diode (LED) market, top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives, and are hoping to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business. Global shipments of metal...
Utilities grow IT services spending
Total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to be $10,4-billion in 2013, with the majority (62,9%) of IT spending being dedicated to IT services. A new report from IDC Energy Insights, “Western Europe Utilities IT Spending 2012-2017 Forecast,...
MediSwitch installs Oracle GoldenGate
MediSwitch has installed Oracle GoldenGate in order to achieve realtime bi-direction replication between its two instances of MediSwitch's Oracle database. Golden Gate has also been used to support a “zero downtime” migration to the Oracle Database Appliance. The...
PwC becomes Microsoft Dynamics partner
PwC and Microsoft have formed a strategic alliance to help companies engaged in enterprise transformation projects using Microsoft Business Solutions technology. As a result of this agreement, PwC becomes the first professional services firm with an arrangement that...
SAP offers fraud management solution
The exponential growth of big data is forcing organisations of all sizes to rapidly improve their governance, risk and compliance efforts. Speedily detecting and addressing potential fraud is completely dependent on harnessing technology that can validate and provide...
Westcon Comztek offers Cisco solutions
Networks have evolved into service delivery platforms for a variety of real-time communication and collaboration applications. In these business critical environments, relying on a warranty is no longer enough, nor is it advisable business practice – with so many...
Telkom earns ITSM certification
Telkom has obtained ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 accreditation for its IT services management (ITSM) system relating to its Basic Hosting offering, demonstrating the Company’s proven best practice and excellence in IT management. The standard ensures companies can achieve...
How ESN can benefit marketing departments
Their names are known throughout the world by millions of adoring fans, they are attractive, sometimes they are even genuinely talented, they are often absurdly wealthy – and for just a few million more, one of them might be willing to lend their gorgeous, famous face...
Smartphones get more competitive
With most of the top brands introducing new flagship smartphones in the first half of 2013, consumers now have more choices than ever, helping smartphone shipments to double from 2012 to 2017, according to a new Mobile and Wireless Communications report from...
Telkom signs new labour agreement
Telkom has announced the conclusion of its substantive negotiations with trade unions the Communications Workers Union (CWU), the South African Communications Union (SACU) and Solidarity. The company met with SACU to sign the three year labour agreement effectively...
Sacci raises carbon tax concerns
The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) believes the proposed upcoming carbon tax will have a negative effect on South Africa’s economy. In a statement, the CEO of Sacci, Neren Rau, says: “Sacci is concerned with the potential malign economic impact...
100% discount for FNB’s uncapped ADSL
FNB has announced an uncapped ADSL product with discounts of up to 100% on monthly subscription fees, applicable for qualifying customers who sign up from 8 August 2013. Qualifying personal cheque account holders and FNB private client customers can receive between...
EMEA thin client market contracts
Following three years of growth, thin client shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have declined by 4,2% year-on-year in Q1 2013 to 406 138 units, according to results published by IDC in its EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker. Despite...
LED oversupply set to continue
Despite a major surplus in the light-emitting diode (LED) market, top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives, and are hoping to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business. Global shipments of metal...
Utilities grow IT services spending
Total year-end IT spending by Western European utilities is expected to be $10,4-billion in 2013, with the majority (62,9%) of IT spending being dedicated to IT services. A new report from IDC Energy Insights, “Western Europe Utilities IT Spending 2012-2017 Forecast,...
MediSwitch installs Oracle GoldenGate
MediSwitch has installed Oracle GoldenGate in order to achieve realtime bi-direction replication between its two instances of MediSwitch's Oracle database. Golden Gate has also been used to support a “zero downtime” migration to the Oracle Database Appliance. The...
PwC becomes Microsoft Dynamics partner
PwC and Microsoft have formed a strategic alliance to help companies engaged in enterprise transformation projects using Microsoft Business Solutions technology. As a result of this agreement, PwC becomes the first professional services firm with an arrangement that...
SAP offers fraud management solution
The exponential growth of big data is forcing organisations of all sizes to rapidly improve their governance, risk and compliance efforts. Speedily detecting and addressing potential fraud is completely dependent on harnessing technology that can validate and provide...