Worldwide Chromebook sales to end users is on pace to reach 7,3-million units in 2015, a 27% increase from 2014, according to Gartner. Education is the primary market for Chromebooks and represented 72% of the global Chromebook market in 2014. In the business segment, purchases of Chromebooks remain low despite interest from small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and vertical industries.
Stellenbosch University has deployed the first academic campus-wide Huawei Agile network in South Africa. Joe Smit, IT director: services and operations at Stellenbosch University, says the project was designed to give lecturers and students greater mobility across the campus. He points out that Stellenbosch has some unusual issues around mobile networking in that the university isn’t a closed campus, but is part of the town’s infrastructure. Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Network Congress in Beijing.
The amended Broad-based Black Economic Empower (B-BBEE) Act of 2013 that came into effect on 1 May 2015 could potentially wipe out more than R20-billion in direct skills development and training investments and cost black South Africans many thousands of job opportunities. In this opinion piece, Hansie Fourie, managing executive of B-BBEE Consultancy Services, explains why.