Holidays, trial eat into notebook sales

Sales at The Notebook Company, a leading retailer of notebooks and accessories, were down by 20% in April and May. CEO Christopher Riley comments: “April is often a tough month. But this year, during April and May, we had all the normal holidays – which are a rash of...

MWeb offers affordable hosting for SMEs

MWeb Business has launched a range of competitively priced hosting options that bring the benefits of having servers hosted in the company’s data centres within reach of budget-conscious small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The new usage-based bandwidth server hosting...

Integrated systems revenue jumps

The value of the integrated systems market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has grown by 58% year-over-year in 4Q13, and by 63,5% for the full year 2013, to reach $1,76-billion. This is according to the latest Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and...

eBay users’ details are under threat

eBay is asking its users to change their passwords because of a cyber-attack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data. The company says it has no evidence of the compromise resulting in unauthorised activity for eBay...

Google has the most valuable brand

Google has been named as the most valuable brand, according to BrandZ’s Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2014. The brand saw a 40% rise in brand value over the last year, for a total 324% appreciation since 2006. Apple, the second most valuable brand, has grown...

African apps shine at Ericsson awards

South African Team WorkMode has won the Student category of the 2014 Ericsson Application Awards. The team won the award for an app that helps workers collaborate by allowing them to see the real-time work context and tasks of colleagues. The jury motivated its choice...