SA companies scoop Dell awards

Sep 18, 2014

Two South African companies won when Dell celebrated its EMEA PartnerDirect Awards at a gala dinner hosted by founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell in Brussels’ Square centre. Mark Davison reports.

Huawei takes a telecoms view of the cloud

Sep 18, 2014

Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – Huawei Technologies intends for its cloud offerings to be a major part of its business going forward, and believes it has the right mix of technologies to succeed in this market. Ron...

Ricoh moves to 3D printer manufacture

Sep 18, 2014

Ricoh has launched an additive manufacturing business focused on 3D printing, aimed specifically at the Japanese market. Ricoh will sell 3D printers and associated output services directly to manufacturing customers, as well as provide consulting services to those...

Family home could hold 500 smart devices

Sep 18, 2014

The falling cost of adding sensing and communications to consumer products will mean that a typical family home, in a mature affluent market, could contain several hundred smart objects by 2022. Gartner says the smart home will be an area of dramatic evolution over...

Pamoja, Symantec deliver cloud services

Sep 18, 2014

Pamoja and Symantec will launch their cloud services in Nairobi, Kenya, next week (25 September). Pamoja Africa is the cloud services business unit of Pan-African ICT enabler Seacom. Its partnership with Symantec, a recognised leader in the security technology...

Metacom enables remote ATM network roll-out

Sep 18, 2014

Spark ATM has grown to be South Africa’s leading independent ATM network since its inception in 2005, with more than 2 500 cash machines in some of the country’s most remote areas. These have all been built on the basis of a lean, low-cost business model that has...