Oct 10, 2013
The IT industry is up in arms this morning over a decision by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to scrap the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in schools, and to drop Java in favour of Delphi as the programming language of choice. Circular S9 of 2013...
Oct 10, 2013
HP’s turnaround strategy is on track, according to president and CEO Meg Whitman, giving delegates to HP’s 2013 Securities Analyst Meeting an update on the company’s progress executing against its turnaround plan and future strategy. Whitman reviewed the...
Oct 10, 2013
Worldwide PC shipments totalled 81,6-million units in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13). In year-on-year terms, the market contracted -7,6%, ahead of a projected decline of -9,5% for the quarter, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...
Oct 10, 2013
South Africa’s home-grown instant messaging service, Mxit, may have been supplanted by Facebook as the country’s biggest social network, but it has succeeded in maintaining the loyalty of its user base. This emerged from the final analysis of the SA Social Media...
Oct 10, 2013
Telkom used the MyBroadband conference yesterday to demonstrate the results of its technical trials into high-speed fixed Internet over a 100Mbps GPON-based line, as well as showing mobile broadband over 200Mbps LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation air interface. These...
Oct 10, 2013
Overall IT spending in South Africa is set to increase 6,3% year-on-year in 2014 to total $14,59-billion, according to the latest forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). Referencing its recently released South Africa Vertical Markets 2013–2017 IT Spending...
