Technology News
Howzit MSN moves into Kenya, Nigeria
Howzit MSN, one of Africa’s largest portals, with 3,3-million unique browsers per month, is set to launch dedicated versions of its site for Nigeria and Kenya. Howzit MSN, operated by Kagiso Media in partnership with Microsoft, is the South African version of the...
Entries open for entrepreneur award
The 2013 Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year competition is underway, with less than two months left to enter. The competition is aimed at inspiring and encouraging entrepreneurs who are playing their part in fostering entrepreneurship in the country....
Commercial 5G a reality by 2020
Samsung Electronics says it has successfully developed the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimetre-wave Ka bands for cellular communications. The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system, and will...
Teraco secures R200m debt facility
Teraco Data Environments, the neutral co-location data centre operator and Internet exchange hub, has secured a R200-million medium term funding facility from Absa’s Corporate and Investment Banking division. “The funds raised are the largest by an independently...
1m babies die the day they’re born
A baby's birth day is the most dangerous day of its life, according to the Save the Children's State of the World’s Mothers report. More than 1-million babies die every year on the day they are born, according to the first global analysis of newborn day-of-death data....
Choosing the right display for the job
Contrary to popular belief, not all displays are made equal. Like any other technology with multiple applications, there are numerous options available to customers that cater to the specific requirements of the environments in which they operate, says Pvision...
Riverbed positioned in Leaders Quadrant
Riverbed Technology the application performance company, announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2013 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers, authored by Joe Skorupa, Mark Fabbi, Bjarne Munch, and published in...
Alexander Forbes rolls out green data centre
Alexander Forbes, an established financial services company specialising in short-term and long-term insurance, health, retirement and multi-manager investment solutions internationally, has demonstrated its commitment to green technologies, with the rollout of a...
UPSes important for SOHO, SME market
Unstable power, power cuts and voltage fluctuations are an unfortunate reality of doing business in South Africa and aside from causing lost productivity, these power issues can also damage sensitive IT equipment such as – PCs and servers, costing the SOHO and SME...
Information Builders helps fight fraud
Information Builders, the supplier of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity and integration solutions, says it is working with numerous public sector customers to reduce the instances and impact of fraud, waste and abuse through realtime data...
New strategy head for Telkom
Dr Miriam Altman has been appointed as Telkom’s head of strategy, with effect from 1 June 2013. Dr Altman will support the development and execution of Telkom’s strategy and will report directly to group CEO Sipho Maseko. Dr Altman was an executive director at the...
IS expands public cloud offering
Internet Solutions (IS) has announced that its Public Compute as a Service (CaaS) offering can now be purchased on a pay-as-you-go basis using a credit card. The IS Public CaaS platform, available through a Web-based portal, enables developers, independent software...
Forum aims to boost African domains
A platform for the DNS community across Africa to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent is the goal of the Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum, to be held from 12 to 13 July 2013 in Durban. The event has been organised by...
Howzit MSN moves into Kenya, Nigeria
Howzit MSN, one of Africa’s largest portals, with 3,3-million unique browsers per month, is set to launch dedicated versions of its site for Nigeria and Kenya. Howzit MSN, operated by Kagiso Media in partnership with Microsoft, is the South African version of the...
Entries open for entrepreneur award
The 2013 Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year competition is underway, with less than two months left to enter. The competition is aimed at inspiring and encouraging entrepreneurs who are playing their part in fostering entrepreneurship in the country....
Commercial 5G a reality by 2020
Samsung Electronics says it has successfully developed the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimetre-wave Ka bands for cellular communications. The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system, and will...
Teraco secures R200m debt facility
Teraco Data Environments, the neutral co-location data centre operator and Internet exchange hub, has secured a R200-million medium term funding facility from Absa’s Corporate and Investment Banking division. “The funds raised are the largest by an independently...
1m babies die the day they’re born
A baby's birth day is the most dangerous day of its life, according to the Save the Children's State of the World’s Mothers report. More than 1-million babies die every year on the day they are born, according to the first global analysis of newborn day-of-death data....
Choosing the right display for the job
Contrary to popular belief, not all displays are made equal. Like any other technology with multiple applications, there are numerous options available to customers that cater to the specific requirements of the environments in which they operate, says Pvision...
Riverbed positioned in Leaders Quadrant
Riverbed Technology the application performance company, announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2013 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers, authored by Joe Skorupa, Mark Fabbi, Bjarne Munch, and published in...