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Preparing for disaster recovery
Lightning strikes, floods, fires, machine error, hardware failures, viruses, someone pressing the "do not touch" red button, the blinking red light being ignored, the wrong plug being pulled. It almost sounds like the fast-moving plot of an action movie, but such...
Reasons to renew security software licenses
Security software is something every person with a computer and an Internet connection should have to protect personal information from a wide variety of cybercrime threats, says Fred Mitchell, Symantec business unit manager, Drive Control Corporation. However, having...
SA payroll takes centre stage in August
The South African Payroll Association (SAPA) has confirmed that this year’s annual national conference, under the theme "Payroll on Broadway”, is scheduled for 27 August in Cape Town, 29 August in Durban and 3 and 4 September in Johannesburg. This year’s theme is...
Carriers must displace OTT players
With OTT (over-the-top) messaging overtaking SMS for the first time, global leader in solution enablement for service providers, Movius Interactive Corporation, claims it is time carriers make moves to displace the OTT players. Informa reported last month that almost...
Targeted data attacks uncovered
Researchers at ESET have uncovered a hacking campaign targeted at stealing sensitive data from different organisations, particularly in Pakistan, and with limited spread around the world. Hackers delivered fake PDF and document attachments by email carrying a...
Altron to take over Altech
Altron has made an offer to acquire Altech. The amount payable by Altron to Altech shareholders will be settled with R47.50 in cash for every Altech share. Altech shareholders may elect to receive all or part of the consideration in the form of Altron participating...
Vodacom reports revenue growth
Vodacom has announced that group revenue for the year was up 4,5%. Excluding the sale of Gateway Carrier Services and foreign currency impact, revenue was up 5,3% and service revenue was up 2,9%. Group data revenue was up 22,2%, and active data customers increased...
Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1,1bn
Yahoo has reportedly agreed to buy blogging site Tumblr for $1,1-billion - Yahoo’s biggest purchase in a decade. Tumblr was set up six years ago, and has attracted a large audience of young Internet users. Tumblr members create their own blogs, sharing their thoughts...
Android, iOS dominate market
Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, accounted for 92,3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for third place. According to the...
Fitness monitors set to boom
Pumped up by demand from a wide range of users, including professional athletes and exercise enthusiasts, global shipments of sports and fitness monitors are set to total more than 250-million units during the next five years combined. Shipments will rise to...
JDA Software expands services
JDA Software Group has announced the launch of its new suite of strategic services designed to help organisations maximise their supply chain performance and keep it running optimally over time. Having helped hundreds of customers around the world achieve dramatic...
TF1 uses MicroStrategy solution
MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) and mobile software, has announced that TF1, the largest European private TV channel, owned by the Paris, France-based TF1 Group of media companies, is using the MicroStrategy BI Platform to...
TAKEALOT.com rolls out daily deals
If the launch of their brand-new mobile shopping app wasn’t exciting enough, the team at TAKEALOT.com have just introduced a new initiative offering customers even bigger savings on selected products on a daily, first-come-first-serve basis. SAVEALOT Daily Deals...
Preparing for disaster recovery
Lightning strikes, floods, fires, machine error, hardware failures, viruses, someone pressing the "do not touch" red button, the blinking red light being ignored, the wrong plug being pulled. It almost sounds like the fast-moving plot of an action movie, but such...
Reasons to renew security software licenses
Security software is something every person with a computer and an Internet connection should have to protect personal information from a wide variety of cybercrime threats, says Fred Mitchell, Symantec business unit manager, Drive Control Corporation. However, having...
SA payroll takes centre stage in August
The South African Payroll Association (SAPA) has confirmed that this year’s annual national conference, under the theme "Payroll on Broadway”, is scheduled for 27 August in Cape Town, 29 August in Durban and 3 and 4 September in Johannesburg. This year’s theme is...
Carriers must displace OTT players
With OTT (over-the-top) messaging overtaking SMS for the first time, global leader in solution enablement for service providers, Movius Interactive Corporation, claims it is time carriers make moves to displace the OTT players. Informa reported last month that almost...
Targeted data attacks uncovered
Researchers at ESET have uncovered a hacking campaign targeted at stealing sensitive data from different organisations, particularly in Pakistan, and with limited spread around the world. Hackers delivered fake PDF and document attachments by email carrying a...
Altron to take over Altech
Altron has made an offer to acquire Altech. The amount payable by Altron to Altech shareholders will be settled with R47.50 in cash for every Altech share. Altech shareholders may elect to receive all or part of the consideration in the form of Altron participating...
Vodacom reports revenue growth
Vodacom has announced that group revenue for the year was up 4,5%. Excluding the sale of Gateway Carrier Services and foreign currency impact, revenue was up 5,3% and service revenue was up 2,9%. Group data revenue was up 22,2%, and active data customers increased...