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Life-changing technology on show
Car taillights saving lives, immersive displays allowing photos to tell their own story, personalised shopping experiences. These are just a few of the innovations presented by Intel at its 11th annual Research@Intel event, a showcase of the most innovative new...
MTN app competition open for entries
The 2013 MTN Business App of the Year Awards are now open for entry. The coveted awards celebrate individuals, corporate and businesses with the most innovative mobile apps in South Africa. This is the second edition of the awards and organisers believe it will be the...
Healthy growth for PBBA market
Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues posted a 16,5% year-over-year increase, totalling $679-million in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup...
MTN extends mobile data price cuts
Following the announcement in March 2013 to aggressively reduce Internet price plans and bundle rates, MTN SA has announced an extension of this big mobile data sale until 30 September 2013. “The price plan reduction has proven to be sufficiently successful and we...
Norton 360 offers multi-platform protection
Norton by Symantec has announced the availability of Norton 360 Multi-Device, a comprehensive security solution that provides security across platforms and devices. For consumers who have multiple devices and want a simple, easy-to-use security solution, Norton 360...
Huawei launches transport market solutions
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has launched its innovative eLTE solution in South Africa, at the Africa Transport and Infrastructure Show at the Sandton Convention Centre. Huawei’s eLTE, which features...
Are biometrics solutions really secure?
Biometric access control technology has experienced phenomenal growth in adoption in South Africa over the past few years, with an estimated 80% of all access control solutions using fingerprint readers and other biometrics to enhance security, says Kobus Le Roux,...
Pamoja links FlowCentric, Guideline BizTech
Advanced process technology, Rubi-Flow, from FlowCentric Technologies, a leading local provider of agile, robust, and easily-integrated business process management solutions is being used to automate and power the business process components of Guideline BizTech’s...
BlackBerry Jam sessions come to SA in July
The BlackBerry Jam Africa & Middle East Tour will come to South Africa in July providing South African developers a chance for more hands-on experience with the range of development tools available for the BlackBerry platform. The sessions will take place in...
Cooling modern data centres
Virtually all IT equipment is air-cooled, that is, each piece of IT equipment takes in ambient air and ejects waste heat into its exhaust air, says Kevin Dunlap, general manager of cooling solutions, and Neil Rasmussen, senior VP of innovation for Schneider Electric....
Spam volumes continue to decline
In May, the percentage of spam in e-mail traffic was down by 2,5 percentage points and averaged 69,7%. Experts at Kaspersky Lab noted a very slight increase in the share of phishing e-mails compared with April, while malicious attachments were detected in 2,8% of...
Huawei’s Ascend G510 debuts in SA
Huawei has launched the Huawei Ascend G510, an ergonomically designed smartphone measuring just 9,9mm thin and featuring a 1,2Ghz dual-core processor. “Our latest smartphone, the Huawei Ascend G510, proves that great value can also come in a stylish and ergonomic...
25 years since the AS/440 launch
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the IBM i operating system, which runs on IBM's Power Systems and PureSystems PureFlex servers. It was on 21 June 1988 when IBM debuted the new Application System/400 (AS/400) family of computer systems, the original...
Life-changing technology on show
Car taillights saving lives, immersive displays allowing photos to tell their own story, personalised shopping experiences. These are just a few of the innovations presented by Intel at its 11th annual Research@Intel event, a showcase of the most innovative new...
MTN app competition open for entries
The 2013 MTN Business App of the Year Awards are now open for entry. The coveted awards celebrate individuals, corporate and businesses with the most innovative mobile apps in South Africa. This is the second edition of the awards and organisers believe it will be the...
Healthy growth for PBBA market
Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues posted a 16,5% year-over-year increase, totalling $679-million in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup...
MTN extends mobile data price cuts
Following the announcement in March 2013 to aggressively reduce Internet price plans and bundle rates, MTN SA has announced an extension of this big mobile data sale until 30 September 2013. “The price plan reduction has proven to be sufficiently successful and we...
Norton 360 offers multi-platform protection
Norton by Symantec has announced the availability of Norton 360 Multi-Device, a comprehensive security solution that provides security across platforms and devices. For consumers who have multiple devices and want a simple, easy-to-use security solution, Norton 360...
Huawei launches transport market solutions
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has launched its innovative eLTE solution in South Africa, at the Africa Transport and Infrastructure Show at the Sandton Convention Centre. Huawei’s eLTE, which features...
Are biometrics solutions really secure?
Biometric access control technology has experienced phenomenal growth in adoption in South Africa over the past few years, with an estimated 80% of all access control solutions using fingerprint readers and other biometrics to enhance security, says Kobus Le Roux,...