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Vicitude, Yellowfin SA ink BI partnership
Cape Town-based software specialist, Vicitude Business Solutions, has signed a reseller agreement with Yellowfin South Africa, the official distributor for Yellowfin in sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement will see Vicitude offering Yellowfin’s easy-to-use business...
Pannar Seed buys digital Xerox press
In a move away from outsourced litho printing, Pannar Seed’s in-house media and printing service department has bought a Xerox Colour X1000 digital press from Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), Africa’s leading document management technology and services company, and the...
Mimecast offers Large File Send for Outlook
Mimecast announced Large File Send for Outlook a new service that makes sending large files secure and easy for users but meets the governance and management needs of IT staff. The service will eliminate a common data security or "Shadow IT" threat caused when users...
E-learning enhances business performance
The e-learning industry is currently worth nearly $6-billion in the US and an estimated 77% of American companies are using online learning to develop and retain staff. When employees are engaged and actively growing, they are committed, according to Anton Cabral,...
White spaces to light up Limpopo
Microsoft aims to bring inexpensive broadband connectivity to rural Limpopo. It has launched a pilot project in rural Limpopo that intends to deliver high-speed and affordable broadband to under-served communities using so-called “white spaces” technology. The focus...
ATM hacker Barnaby Jack dies
Barnaby Jack, the ethical hacker who demonstrated how ATMs could be made to empty their vaults, has died. Jack was scheduled to present at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas later this week, on shortcomings in the security of medical devices. The subject of the...
Smartphone market still fragmented
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 6% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 432,1-million mobile phones in 2Q13 compared to...
Cell phone grey market dwindles
The grey market for cell phones will contract for the second consecutive year in 2013, with worldwide shipments dropping by 12% as both makers and buyers of these handsets turn to branded products, according to the China Research Service at information and analytics...
New president, CEO for Samsung Africa
A number of executives in Samsung’s key regional posts have been reassigned, with Sung Yong Hong taking over as the new president and CEO of Samsung Africa. He takes over from Kwang Kee Park, who has been promoted to president and CEO of Samsung South East Asia. Prior...
Westcon looks to a services future
Recognising that distribution faces a host of new challenges, Westcon is looking to strengthen its global services business. In February this year it appointed Chris Ranger as the new vice-president: services for the EMEA region to set up a new services...
Backup and recovery for emerging enterprises
There is a lot of hype in the marketplace about virtual machine backups at a host level to backup infrastructures in its entirety in order to deploy it elsewhere as part of their backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. In reality, these types of backup and DR...
Mine loyalty programmes for data insights
Progressive health retail outlet Wellness Warehouse is using insights gained from its loyalty programme to drive merchandising and promotion decisions – and is seeing the benefits. “The major insight has been that our most loyal customers are nothing like our typical...
IM landscape changes rapidly in SA
The rapid growth of the WhatsApp instant messaging (IM) client and the decline in the volume of chat messages going through MXit over the past 12 months in South Africa, are indicative of the change in the way people are using their mobile phones to communicate with...
Vicitude, Yellowfin SA ink BI partnership
Cape Town-based software specialist, Vicitude Business Solutions, has signed a reseller agreement with Yellowfin South Africa, the official distributor for Yellowfin in sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement will see Vicitude offering Yellowfin’s easy-to-use business...
Pannar Seed buys digital Xerox press
In a move away from outsourced litho printing, Pannar Seed’s in-house media and printing service department has bought a Xerox Colour X1000 digital press from Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), Africa’s leading document management technology and services company, and the...
Mimecast offers Large File Send for Outlook
Mimecast announced Large File Send for Outlook a new service that makes sending large files secure and easy for users but meets the governance and management needs of IT staff. The service will eliminate a common data security or "Shadow IT" threat caused when users...
E-learning enhances business performance
The e-learning industry is currently worth nearly $6-billion in the US and an estimated 77% of American companies are using online learning to develop and retain staff. When employees are engaged and actively growing, they are committed, according to Anton Cabral,...
White spaces to light up Limpopo
Microsoft aims to bring inexpensive broadband connectivity to rural Limpopo. It has launched a pilot project in rural Limpopo that intends to deliver high-speed and affordable broadband to under-served communities using so-called “white spaces” technology. The focus...
ATM hacker Barnaby Jack dies
Barnaby Jack, the ethical hacker who demonstrated how ATMs could be made to empty their vaults, has died. Jack was scheduled to present at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas later this week, on shortcomings in the security of medical devices. The subject of the...
Smartphone market still fragmented
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 6% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 432,1-million mobile phones in 2Q13 compared to...