Whitman explains write-downs

HP Global Partner Conference, Las Vegas – HP CEO Meg Whitman spoke publicly for the first time about the billion dollar write-downs of acquisitions EDS and Autonomy during a Q&A session after her keynote at the company’s annual partner conference yesterday....
Curiosity sees into Mars rock

Curiosity sees into Mars rock

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond Earth and collected a sample from its...

BlackBerry Z10 debuts in SA

Both Vodacom and MTN have announced that the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is available in South Africa. Vodacom states that the device is available now from Vodacom World in Midrand and will be available from other Vodacom stores on 22 February 2013. The BlackBerry...

Challenges to cloud adoption

Business and IT leaders across the globe are finding cloud adoption to be more complicated than many had originally anticipated.  According to a report from KPMG International, The Cloud Takes Shape, nearly 33% of all executives surveyed say that cloud implementation...

ISPA urges further IP Connect cuts

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) says that further reductions in Internet Protocol Connect (IP Connect) prices are urgently required to keep fixed-line connectivity competitive in South Africa.  IP Connect is the wholesale product through which...

Tablets drive gains in gaming

The rapid take-up of tablets, combined with the growing acceptance of in-game purchasing and virtual currencies, will result in an estimated $3,03-billion of sales in 2016, reaching over 10-times the $301-million figure calculated for 2012.  This is according to a new...