Technology News
MTN closes in on 200m subscribers
MTN has grown its subscriber base by 4% in the four months to April 2013, reaching 197,4-million mobile subscribers across all its operations. Group revenues increased 5,6% year-on-year for the period. This is according to MTN group president and CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa,...
Flat-panel TVs set for modest growth
Bringing an end to a full year of declines, global flat-panel television shipments rose slightly in the first quarter, paving the way for marginal growth in 2013, according to the Monthly Worldwide FPD TV Shipment Data Report from the IHS TV Systems Intelligence...
Uganda signs up to Water Cost Index
Waterfund and IBM have signed an agreement with the Ministry of Water and Environment of the Republic of Uganda that makes the country the first in Africa to become a member of the pioneering Water Cost Index (WCI). Waterfund, with IBM acting as calculation agent,...
DiData scoops EMC partner awards
Dimension Data, the $5,8-billion ICT solutions and services provider, has scooped four awards at EMC’s annual Global Partner Summit, including Partner of the Year 2013 for Dimension Data South Africa. EMC’s annual Global Partner Summit was held at EMC World in Las...
Comztek provides Creative Cloud updates
With the recent announcement of the update of Adobe’s Creative Cloud (CC), Comztek resellers will now be able to offer their customers access to a solution that includes a range of next generation CC desktop applications, which are able to deliver fully integrated...
Comstor partnerships benefit customers
Working with vendor partners NetApp and SAP, Comstor, a division of Westcon SA, is enabling customers to accelerate the deployment and delivery of an agile data infrastructure for their SAP applications and infrastructure. According to Comstor, the recent...
Four steps to securing the BYOD world
Users can’t secure every device, and the day of limiting devices and platforms has passed. Don’t focus on devices – focus on the data, the apps and the users. The BYOD era poses a massive security challenge: all those different devices and platforms. Mobile Device...
Novell Filr provides anytime file access
File synchronisation and hosted services have been increasingly used by businesses in recent years yet few of them allow users to leverage their own enterprise class security and most of them require additional layers of management. The reason for this has been “why...
Fujitsu boosts high performance computing
Fujitsu has introduced a new initiative making it easier than ever for companies to harness the power of high performance computing (HPC), with solutions that enable faster product development and accelerated time to market – plus an intuitive new user interface and...
Dac Systems offers Siyavula textbooks
Dac Systems, a national specialist service provider focussed on turnkey implementations of leading edge industry solutions, has confirmed that the Siyavula catalogue of digital textbooks is available within their AlwaysOn-Learning education solution. The Siyavula...
Europeans not as connected as Americans
Europeans differ from Americans on all three components of what Forrester calls the mobile mind shift - the expectation by customers that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device in context and at their moment of need. These three...
Regulation, co-operation to grow m-commerce
Uncertainty in regulatory guidelines for mobile money, coupled with limited co-operation among m-commerce providers, is hampering the industry from unlocking its full potential. This is the word from Rajiv Bhatia, head of EMEA sales for Ericsson M-Commerce, speaking...
MTN brings back Nhleko as chairman
MTN will bring Phuthuma Nhleko back as non-executive director and chairman, with effect from today (29 May). The board announced that Cyril Ramaphosa’s retirement as non-executive director and chairman became effective yesterday (28 May). Nhleko previously served as a...
MTN closes in on 200m subscribers
MTN has grown its subscriber base by 4% in the four months to April 2013, reaching 197,4-million mobile subscribers across all its operations. Group revenues increased 5,6% year-on-year for the period. This is according to MTN group president and CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa,...
Flat-panel TVs set for modest growth
Bringing an end to a full year of declines, global flat-panel television shipments rose slightly in the first quarter, paving the way for marginal growth in 2013, according to the Monthly Worldwide FPD TV Shipment Data Report from the IHS TV Systems Intelligence...
Uganda signs up to Water Cost Index
Waterfund and IBM have signed an agreement with the Ministry of Water and Environment of the Republic of Uganda that makes the country the first in Africa to become a member of the pioneering Water Cost Index (WCI). Waterfund, with IBM acting as calculation agent,...
DiData scoops EMC partner awards
Dimension Data, the $5,8-billion ICT solutions and services provider, has scooped four awards at EMC’s annual Global Partner Summit, including Partner of the Year 2013 for Dimension Data South Africa. EMC’s annual Global Partner Summit was held at EMC World in Las...
Comztek provides Creative Cloud updates
With the recent announcement of the update of Adobe’s Creative Cloud (CC), Comztek resellers will now be able to offer their customers access to a solution that includes a range of next generation CC desktop applications, which are able to deliver fully integrated...
Comstor partnerships benefit customers
Working with vendor partners NetApp and SAP, Comstor, a division of Westcon SA, is enabling customers to accelerate the deployment and delivery of an agile data infrastructure for their SAP applications and infrastructure. According to Comstor, the recent...
Four steps to securing the BYOD world
Users can’t secure every device, and the day of limiting devices and platforms has passed. Don’t focus on devices – focus on the data, the apps and the users. The BYOD era poses a massive security challenge: all those different devices and platforms. Mobile Device...