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World leaders take Twitter seriously
More than three-quarters (77,7%) of world leaders have a Twitter account and two-thirds (68%) have made mutual connections with their peers. This is one of the findings from a Burson-Marsteller study “Twiplomacy”, an annual global study of world leaders on Twitter,...
SA boasts 14m Internet users
The total Internet population in South Africa in 2013 is estimated to be almost 14-million users, or 39% of the adult population. This is according to research by the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) and Echo Consultancy. The figure was derived from the...
Telkom Business takes aim at SMEs
Telkom Business has launched the Convergence SingleRate contract, offering SMEs an out-of-bundle rate of 79c per minute to all networks, all the time. Jan Pieterse, executive at Telkom Business Product House, says the operator offers true convergence through a...
JCSE teaches students entrepreneurship
The Jo'burg Centre of Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University has successfully hosted an entrepreneurship training programme presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and funded internationally by Google. Known as “Accelerating IT Innovation”...
SA market ripe for tablet takeover
As demand for communication mobility continues to grow, tablets are stepping up to the plate as one of the devices of choice. In the 12-month period from June 2012 to May 2013, the volume of tablets entering the South African marketplace more than doubled when...
Lexmark clinches $30m FBI deal
Lexmark International has become the exclusive output provider to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a deal estimated at more than $30-million over a three-year period. Lexmark’s Print Management solution has been deployed across the FBI's optimised fleet of...
Orange Money users top up at Total
Orange customers will have access to Orange Money services at all Total service stations in African and Middle-Eastern countries where the two groups are present and Orange Money is available - a total of 13 countries to date. Orange Money is Orange’s payment and...
Revenue growth for VMware
VMware has announced that revenues for the second quarter of 2013 were $1,24-billion, an increase of 11% from the second quarter of 2012. Excluding revenues attributable to GoPivotal and all divestitures that occurred in 2013, revenues for the second quarter increased...
SA a growth market for life sciences
Faced with various challenges such as volatile economies, fluctuating markets conditions, new products and changing demographics, the life sciences and healthcare industry is in the midst of fast and far-reaching changes. The industry is also currently experiencing a...
CloseTV applies for PayTV licence today
Close-T Broadcast Network Holdings, together with its branded PayTV platform CloseTV, is preparing for today’s application for a new subscription broadcast license from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA). “We have approached the growing...
Platco to launch OpenView HD
South African consumers will soon have more to choose from when it comes to digital television. Platco Digital (Platco) will be launching OpenView HD, a free-to-view direct to home (DTH) satellite offering in October. OpenView HD will carry licensed free TV channels...
Fujitsu release ensures messaging security
Fujitsu has launched a new cloud-based solution that minimises the risks, costs and complexity of ensuring robust messaging security. Combining the breadth of ICT security and cloud expertise from Fujitsu with messaging and web security technology from Symantec,...
Apple raises the desktop bar
Apple has unveiled its new Mac Pro desktop computer, a new design and form factor that could change the way users think about desktop computing. “When we began work on the next Mac Pro, we considered every element that defines a pro computer — graphics, storage,...
World leaders take Twitter seriously
More than three-quarters (77,7%) of world leaders have a Twitter account and two-thirds (68%) have made mutual connections with their peers. This is one of the findings from a Burson-Marsteller study “Twiplomacy”, an annual global study of world leaders on Twitter,...
SA boasts 14m Internet users
The total Internet population in South Africa in 2013 is estimated to be almost 14-million users, or 39% of the adult population. This is according to research by the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) and Echo Consultancy. The figure was derived from the...
Telkom Business takes aim at SMEs
Telkom Business has launched the Convergence SingleRate contract, offering SMEs an out-of-bundle rate of 79c per minute to all networks, all the time. Jan Pieterse, executive at Telkom Business Product House, says the operator offers true convergence through a...
JCSE teaches students entrepreneurship
The Jo'burg Centre of Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University has successfully hosted an entrepreneurship training programme presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and funded internationally by Google. Known as “Accelerating IT Innovation”...
SA market ripe for tablet takeover
As demand for communication mobility continues to grow, tablets are stepping up to the plate as one of the devices of choice. In the 12-month period from June 2012 to May 2013, the volume of tablets entering the South African marketplace more than doubled when...
Lexmark clinches $30m FBI deal
Lexmark International has become the exclusive output provider to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a deal estimated at more than $30-million over a three-year period. Lexmark’s Print Management solution has been deployed across the FBI's optimised fleet of...
Orange Money users top up at Total
Orange customers will have access to Orange Money services at all Total service stations in African and Middle-Eastern countries where the two groups are present and Orange Money is available - a total of 13 countries to date. Orange Money is Orange’s payment and...