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Distributing payslips directly to mobiles
By sending an employee’s payslip directly to their mobile devices, companies can enjoy significant cost-savings while giving their workers more timely and convenient access to their payslips. So says Jacques Swanepoel, MD at Cellfind, a member of the Blue Label...
Smartphones and the emerging market
The world of telecommunications is an ever-growing, ever-developing one. It is because of this that the world of work and business is changing: because of technology that enables us to be always online and always available, we are expected to be always online and...
Promoting change for women in the workplace
As National Women’s Day approaches on 9 August there are many signs of the Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum in Africa – from female entrepreneurship, which is driving growth in the region, to the fact there are female government ministers or heads of state in South...
Employee devices can boost productivity
There are an estimated 11-million smart phones and 5-million tablets in South Africa. Moreover, 75% of employees are bringing these devices to work or using them for work purposes, says Craig Freer, head of Product: Enterprise, Vox Telecom. It stands to reason, then,...
Forecast for tape backup grim
Lists consisting of client details, schedules, strategies, budgeting information, payroll … along with employees and the product or service on offer, data is indisputably a critical part of a company’s most precious commodities, and protecting that data by backing it...
Thousands apply for Mars colony
More than 78 000 people have applied to join a one-way trip to Mars to establish a colony on the Red Planet by 2023 – and organisers expect 500 000 to have applied by the closing date of 31 August 2013. The Mars One astronaut selection programme has received...
Rectron, Mustek take on Microsoft VL role
Rectron and Mustek have announced their appointment as Microsoft Volume Licensing (VL) distributors. Microsoft Volume Licensing is a cost-effective, flexible, and manageable way to acquire Microsoft software and cloud services. Microsoft offers several Volume...
Tablets make up 31% of PC shipments
More than 34-million tablets were shipped in the second quarter of 2013 - a 43% year-on-year increase. Tablets now account for 31% of worldwide PC shipments, according to research by Canalys. But Apple’s performance faltered in the quarter, with the company’s tablet...
Security concerns plague cloud services
Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially software as a service (SaaS), are finding security provisions inadequate. Gartner says that SaaS contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a...
All change for new Altron TMT division
Allied Electronics (Altron) has announced that a new division, Altron TMT (Telecommunications, Multimedia and Information Technology), will be created following the operative date of the acquisition of the minority shares in Allied Technologies (Altech). Approval has...
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...
Distributing payslips directly to mobiles
By sending an employee’s payslip directly to their mobile devices, companies can enjoy significant cost-savings while giving their workers more timely and convenient access to their payslips. So says Jacques Swanepoel, MD at Cellfind, a member of the Blue Label...
Smartphones and the emerging market
The world of telecommunications is an ever-growing, ever-developing one. It is because of this that the world of work and business is changing: because of technology that enables us to be always online and always available, we are expected to be always online and...
Promoting change for women in the workplace
As National Women’s Day approaches on 9 August there are many signs of the Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum in Africa – from female entrepreneurship, which is driving growth in the region, to the fact there are female government ministers or heads of state in South...
Employee devices can boost productivity
There are an estimated 11-million smart phones and 5-million tablets in South Africa. Moreover, 75% of employees are bringing these devices to work or using them for work purposes, says Craig Freer, head of Product: Enterprise, Vox Telecom. It stands to reason, then,...
Forecast for tape backup grim
Lists consisting of client details, schedules, strategies, budgeting information, payroll … along with employees and the product or service on offer, data is indisputably a critical part of a company’s most precious commodities, and protecting that data by backing it...
Thousands apply for Mars colony
More than 78 000 people have applied to join a one-way trip to Mars to establish a colony on the Red Planet by 2023 – and organisers expect 500 000 to have applied by the closing date of 31 August 2013. The Mars One astronaut selection programme has received...
Rectron, Mustek take on Microsoft VL role
Rectron and Mustek have announced their appointment as Microsoft Volume Licensing (VL) distributors. Microsoft Volume Licensing is a cost-effective, flexible, and manageable way to acquire Microsoft software and cloud services. Microsoft offers several Volume...