CA helps Nigerian bank raise service levels
Nigeria’s Access Bank has deployed a range of CA Technologies solutions aimed at taking service management to higher levels; boosting customer service and enriching clients’ experiences through better technology availability. CA Southern Africa partner Signal Alliance...Cyberoam to offer free security training
Global network security company Cyberoam wants to partner with South African universities and colleges to offer a free training programme that will help students become network security professionals. According to a JCSE ICT skills sets report, South Africa’s ICT...Tax evaders urged to come clean
SARS has set 12 August as the voluntary disclosure deadline for South Africans that are implicated by information leaked to the media in the HSBC tax evasion scandal.“Tax dodgers must run towards the second chance Voluntary Disclosure Programme offer,” says Ettiene Retief, chairperson of the National Tax and SARS Stakeholders Committees at the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA).
Cloud infrastructure set for market rebound
Following a very strong 2014, cloud spending on enterprise infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) declined by 7% in the first quarter of 2015, in contrast to 24% year-on-year growth in 2014. These results are revealed in the...
Space farming yields benefits
The six astronauts currently living on the International Space Station (ISS) have become the first people to eat food grown in space – but the fresh red romaine lettuce that accompanied the crew’s usual freeze-dried fare is far from the first crop grown on a space station. For decades, NASA and other agencies have experimented with plants in space, but the results were always sent to Earth for examination, rather than eaten.