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Sophos ensures secure Web surfing
Sophos has announced the latest version of its unified threat management (UTM) solution, UTM Connected. This release introduces expanded UTM managed endpoint protection with Web in Endpoint functionality, broader wireless coverage for large scale wireless deployments...
Transparent billing key for telcos
With a price war in full swing in South Africa’s telecommunications market, the time is ripe for mobile providers to start looking at the central role that billing has to play in their customer strategies. This lynchpin of the customer experience has been neglected...
Getting SA to grips with enterprise mobility
The 2nd Enterprise Mobility Forum, to be staged at the Sandton Sun in Johannesburg from 29 to 30 May, will evaluate the impact of enterprise mobility, assess the trends and offer solutions. Possibly the most disruptive technology trend of the decade, enterprise...
Complex software licensing grows obsolete
Software licensing models have evolved to keep pace with technological advances, yet licensing structures are still as complicated and convoluted as ever and many companies and consumers remain mystified as to how to go about implementing them to comply with all the...
Broadband to go live in Jo’burg
The City of Jo'burg Broadband Project, a fibre optic network covering all seven regions of the municipality, will go live on 1 July 2013 after a three-year build phase. To be operated by BWired for 12 years, the network will immediately be able to offer key services...
Durban ready for exclusive namespace
The application for an exclusive Internet namespace for Durban (under the dotDurban domain) has passed the initial evaluation phase of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). That's according to ZADNA (the .ZA Domain Name Authority) which...
India has potential to lead in IT
India has the potential to lead the world in the adoption of the nexus of forces, which is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social interaction, mobility, cloud and information. However, for this to happen, a number technological and socioeconomic shifts...
LG launches TV cloud service in SA
LG Electronics (LG) has launched its own LG Cloud service in South Africa, which is now available on LG Smart World. The service, which was first launched in the US, South Korea and Russia last year, will roll-out the TV-centric service in more than 40 countries,...
AxizWorkgroup added as Dell distributor
Dell South Africa has appointed AxizWorkgroup as their fourth distributor in South Africa, along with Drive Control Corporation (DCC), Tarsus and Pinnacle. The appointment will enable AxizWorkgroup to supply a range of Dell products and services to the channel and...
Datatec increases 2013 revenues
Datatec has posted a revenue increase of 4% for the year ended 28 February 2013, to $5,25-billion from $5,03-billion in 2012. EBITDA was $185,5-million (2012: $190,2-million) and cash generated from operations increased to $316,8-million (2012: $102,8-million)....
Managed services for endpoint security
Mobility has created a number of challenges for information security, most originating from the reality that sensitive information is accessible from just about anywhere on any number of devices. The traditional castle and moat model, where company data was housed on...
SMEs set to be a big force in SA
With more than 1-million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) driving more than third of the South African GDP, Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, is talking directly to these businesses about how to...
Khayelitsha Hospital wins award
The Western Cape’s Khayelitsha Hospital has scooped yet another award – this time garnering the Ministerial Award for National and International Contribution in the Arts and Culture, Language, Heritage, Geographical Names, Museums, Libraries or Archives fields from...
Sophos ensures secure Web surfing
Sophos has announced the latest version of its unified threat management (UTM) solution, UTM Connected. This release introduces expanded UTM managed endpoint protection with Web in Endpoint functionality, broader wireless coverage for large scale wireless deployments...
Transparent billing key for telcos
With a price war in full swing in South Africa’s telecommunications market, the time is ripe for mobile providers to start looking at the central role that billing has to play in their customer strategies. This lynchpin of the customer experience has been neglected...
Getting SA to grips with enterprise mobility
The 2nd Enterprise Mobility Forum, to be staged at the Sandton Sun in Johannesburg from 29 to 30 May, will evaluate the impact of enterprise mobility, assess the trends and offer solutions. Possibly the most disruptive technology trend of the decade, enterprise...
Complex software licensing grows obsolete
Software licensing models have evolved to keep pace with technological advances, yet licensing structures are still as complicated and convoluted as ever and many companies and consumers remain mystified as to how to go about implementing them to comply with all the...
Broadband to go live in Jo’burg
The City of Jo'burg Broadband Project, a fibre optic network covering all seven regions of the municipality, will go live on 1 July 2013 after a three-year build phase. To be operated by BWired for 12 years, the network will immediately be able to offer key services...
Durban ready for exclusive namespace
The application for an exclusive Internet namespace for Durban (under the dotDurban domain) has passed the initial evaluation phase of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). That's according to ZADNA (the .ZA Domain Name Authority) which...
India has potential to lead in IT
India has the potential to lead the world in the adoption of the nexus of forces, which is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social interaction, mobility, cloud and information. However, for this to happen, a number technological and socioeconomic shifts...