Technology News
BYOD to become preferred strategy
As enterprise "bring your own device" (BYOD) programmes become more commonplace, 38% of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner's Executive Programs. "BYOD strategies are the most radical change to...
Netbooks set to disappear by 2015
Once a white-hot PC product that sold tens of millions of units annually, netbook computers are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year. This is according to an IHS iSuppli Compute...
Triple bottom line takes off
As corporations of all sizes increasingly choose to monitor and report on their social and environmental impacts, a growing number of mostly small- and medium-sized companies are going even further: they are volunteering to be held publicly accountable to a new triple...
iStorage signs up Bridgeworks
Bridgeworks, a leading storage protocol bridge manufacturer, has announced its partnership with iStorage Data Networks Corporation, a South African distributor with more than 120 selected resellers and VARs. This is the first channel partnership in sub-Saharan Africa...
UAE, Africa investment urged
More global investment and trade between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Africa is urged, partly to assist Dubai’s bid for the World Expo 2020. This is the word from Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, CEO of Etisalat Group, speaking yesterday at the opening panel of African...
Backdoor affects thousands of servers
Eset researchers, together with their counterparts at Web security firm Sucuri, have been analysing a new threat affecting Apache Web servers, the most well-known and widely-used Web server in the world. The threat is a highly advanced and stealthy backdoor being...
Mobile development will move to the cloud
By 2016, 40% of mobile application development projects will leverage cloud back-end services, causing development leaders to lose control of the pace and path of cloud adoption within their enterprises, predicts Gartner. Cloud mobile back-end services provide a...
ISPA launches iCode against malware
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has announced that its iCode became effective yesterday (1 May 2013). The iCode is a voluntary code of practice designed to make it safer for South Africans to work and play online by encouraging Internet service...
Interactive grows customer service in Africa
Interactive Intelligence is launching a year-long campaign to educate African enterprises on customer service best practice. Through a series of Webinars and in-house seminars, Interactive Intelligence aims to help African businesses improve their customer experience...
Panasonic introduces Toughbook, Toughpad
Syntech, a South African based IT hardware distributor, and Panasonic, one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, have announced the launch of the Toughbook and Toughpad at a media and reseller get-together on Thursday. The new Toughbook and...
Korea could shake the world
What would happen if half of all global production for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70% of the world’s tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market? The answer would be chaos, with the worldwide...
China’s Star Times takes over TopTV
TopTV creditors have voted to accept a rescue plan whereby China’s Star Communication Technology (Star Times) will take over the struggling pay-TV provider. The rescue plan was adopted just hours before the operator would have had to cease operations on Tuesday night...
Mustek wins NEC accolade
Mustek has been named as NEC’s Top Performer in Infrastructure Projects, for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. The award was made at the NEC EMEA Partner Conference 2013 in Dubai, where NEC honoured its top-performing business partners who address the...
BYOD to become preferred strategy
As enterprise "bring your own device" (BYOD) programmes become more commonplace, 38% of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner's Executive Programs. "BYOD strategies are the most radical change to...
Netbooks set to disappear by 2015
Once a white-hot PC product that sold tens of millions of units annually, netbook computers are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year. This is according to an IHS iSuppli Compute...
Triple bottom line takes off
As corporations of all sizes increasingly choose to monitor and report on their social and environmental impacts, a growing number of mostly small- and medium-sized companies are going even further: they are volunteering to be held publicly accountable to a new triple...
iStorage signs up Bridgeworks
Bridgeworks, a leading storage protocol bridge manufacturer, has announced its partnership with iStorage Data Networks Corporation, a South African distributor with more than 120 selected resellers and VARs. This is the first channel partnership in sub-Saharan Africa...
UAE, Africa investment urged
More global investment and trade between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Africa is urged, partly to assist Dubai’s bid for the World Expo 2020. This is the word from Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, CEO of Etisalat Group, speaking yesterday at the opening panel of African...
Backdoor affects thousands of servers
Eset researchers, together with their counterparts at Web security firm Sucuri, have been analysing a new threat affecting Apache Web servers, the most well-known and widely-used Web server in the world. The threat is a highly advanced and stealthy backdoor being...
Mobile development will move to the cloud
By 2016, 40% of mobile application development projects will leverage cloud back-end services, causing development leaders to lose control of the pace and path of cloud adoption within their enterprises, predicts Gartner. Cloud mobile back-end services provide a...