Oct 23, 2013
South African retail groups are investing heavily in their online presences as they wake up to the prospect of rising international competition as well as the growing pool of Internet-connected users ready to shop online. This is according to Kevin Meltzer, business...
Oct 23, 2013
Apple, which yesterday launched new iPads and Macs, also took a stab at Microsoft’s business with the announcement that its iWork applications will be free. The new operating system, Mavericks, will also be free. iWork is a set of applications that offers similar...
Oct 23, 2013
The Software Alliance has identified several areas of the draft National Policy on Intellectual Property (IP) as “worrying” and urges the Department of Trade and Industry to engage in an extended consultation period and a more concerted approach. “The...
Oct 23, 2013
What began in 1978 as a discussion between two brothers, followed by many hours of development of applications around STARS at the time, is today (35 years later) known as Syspro – one of the world’s leading independent software developers with a client base of over...
Oct 23, 2013
Written in a bold hand on a glass slide was the date and location: 10-22-38 Astoria. The copy might have been fuzzy, but it was still a copy. In fact, it was the world’s first xerographic copy. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first xerographic image,...
Oct 23, 2013
VMware has announced that revenues for the third quarter were $1,29-billion, an increase of 14% from the third quarter of 2012. Excluding revenues attributable to GoPivotal and all divestitures that occurred in 2013, revenues for the third quarter increased 19% from...