Technology News
SAP takes HANA to the cloud
SAP has launched a cloud version of its HANA enterprise in-memory processing system. Speaking at an international pre-release announcement yesterday evening, Dr Vishal Sikka, SAP executive board member: technology and innovation, explains that the announcement is the...
Africa looks good to investors
Africa’s share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown over the past five years, highlighting the growing interest from foreign investors. This is according to Ernst & Young’s third Africa Attractiveness Survey, which combines an analysis of...
Fraud and corruption rife in companies
Financial manipulation and corruption are widespread within companies - and a high percentage of employers and managers know about it. Findings from Ernst & Young’s 2013 Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) Fraud Survey, Navigating Today’s Complex...
DiData bids for Kenyan telco
Dimension Data has made an open market offer to purchase 100% of the issued share capital of NSE-listed AccessKenya, for KES14.00 per share. Based on the 218-million shares in issue, this is equivalent to KES3,052-billion. The offer is a premium of 42% above the...
Tech Mahindra SA opens as JV
Global IT services organisation Tech Mahindra has entered the South African market through a joint venture (JV) with local company Falcorp Technologies. The company, which specialises in the telecommunications market, already has a footprint across Africa, with about...
Ovum puts Gijima platform on watch list
Global analyst and consulting firm Ovum has recognised Gijima’s mobileIT platform as a technology to watch for its potential impact on the market, becoming the first African solution to receive such an accolade. “The mobileIT platform seeks to weave together the...
Altech CEO takes pay freeze, no bonus
Altech Group CEO Craig Venter has decided to forego his bonus for the 2012/13 financial year. “The board appreciates Mr Venter’s decision, as it clearly demonstrates that he continues to place the interests of all stakeholders above short-term considerations,” says...
Cable theft disrupts Telkom service
Theft of a major copper cable in the City Deep exchange area has resulted in the disruption of Telkom services. During the early hours of 4 May 2013, cable thieves cut and stole three metres of 2 400 pair main cable in a manhole on the corner of Heidelberg road and...
Display figures bode well for notebooks
US manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard substantially increased their orders for notebook panel displays in February to meet upcoming shipment targets, which helped to boost overall notebook panel shipments the same month, according to an IHS LCD Shipment Database...
Adobe drops boxed products
Adobe is to move away from boxed products entirely, and will make its Creative Suite – to be known as Creative Cloud – available only on a subscription model. The company has said it will not release new versions of the packaged suite, which includes InDesign,...
SPi, ASP announce merger
Search Partners International (SPi) and Adcorp Search Partners (ASP) have announced the merger of these two stalwarts of the executive search industry. In their original versions, SPi was the first executive search company to be established in Johannesburg in the...
The TCO of a communications solution
Converged communication solutions have become critical to the enterprise for productivity reasons amongst others. However, while organisations have invested large sums of money into communication technology, they often fail to realise the full value of their...
The Notebook Company opens new division
The Notebook Company, the Pretoria-based notebook and accessories retailer – and one of the biggest sellers of Apple iPads in the country – has announced the opening of a consumables division. “We are always looking at value-added services to offer our clients and we...
SAP takes HANA to the cloud
SAP has launched a cloud version of its HANA enterprise in-memory processing system. Speaking at an international pre-release announcement yesterday evening, Dr Vishal Sikka, SAP executive board member: technology and innovation, explains that the announcement is the...
Africa looks good to investors
Africa’s share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown over the past five years, highlighting the growing interest from foreign investors. This is according to Ernst & Young’s third Africa Attractiveness Survey, which combines an analysis of...
Fraud and corruption rife in companies
Financial manipulation and corruption are widespread within companies - and a high percentage of employers and managers know about it. Findings from Ernst & Young’s 2013 Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) Fraud Survey, Navigating Today’s Complex...
DiData bids for Kenyan telco
Dimension Data has made an open market offer to purchase 100% of the issued share capital of NSE-listed AccessKenya, for KES14.00 per share. Based on the 218-million shares in issue, this is equivalent to KES3,052-billion. The offer is a premium of 42% above the...
Tech Mahindra SA opens as JV
Global IT services organisation Tech Mahindra has entered the South African market through a joint venture (JV) with local company Falcorp Technologies. The company, which specialises in the telecommunications market, already has a footprint across Africa, with about...
Ovum puts Gijima platform on watch list
Global analyst and consulting firm Ovum has recognised Gijima’s mobileIT platform as a technology to watch for its potential impact on the market, becoming the first African solution to receive such an accolade. “The mobileIT platform seeks to weave together the...
Altech CEO takes pay freeze, no bonus
Altech Group CEO Craig Venter has decided to forego his bonus for the 2012/13 financial year. “The board appreciates Mr Venter’s decision, as it clearly demonstrates that he continues to place the interests of all stakeholders above short-term considerations,” says...