Rural area gets reliable signal

Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim has launched the Freevision satellite service to the GaMphahlele in Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality in Limpopo, an area that has intermittent broadcasting signal. “As the government, we are determined to ensure that we bring...

IDC ranks data protection vendors

CommVault, EMC, and Symantec are leaders in the European data protection and recovery software market, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) vendor assessment and market analysis study profiling and ranking the leading providers in the data...

Nokia, T2T set out to map Africa

Nokia is partnering with the Tsitsikamma to Tataouine Expedition (T2T) to build HERE map content for the African continent. The expedition, which headed off  from Tsitsikamma in South Africa on 5 October, sees three intrepid explorers travel across 24 countries in...

Records management site goes up in flames

The board of directors of Metrofile advises that a fire occurred at one of the Metrofile Records Management KwaZulu-Natal facilities on Friday evening, 11 October 2013. The fire was contained by the following day and fortunately no one was injured. The company has...

Logicalis acquires iConsult in Jersey

Datatec subsidiary Logicalis Group has acquired iConsult (Jersey), a Channel Islands based provider of hosted desktop and mail solutions. The transaction will be made through Logicalis’ wholly owned local subsidiary Logicalis Jersey. The transaction will strengthen...

All is social on the Y-front

Generation Y-ers have been the subject of many workplace studies. Ys are criticised for being overly insistent on their value to the organisation and “too precious” about the myriad career choices open to them, but they have also justly been credited with driving much...