Altron’s Robbie Venter has died
Robbie Venter, who led the Altron group from 2001 to 2017, has died. The son of Altron founder Bill Venter, Robbie Venter was 64 years old at the time of his death. Robbie was a talented tennis player, and won a tennis scholarship to the University of California in...
Founder and CEO Mark Lu exits Corex
Mark Lu, renowned as one of the pioneers of the South African IT distribution channel, has hung up his "trader's hat" with the announcement that he has officially left Corex, the distributor he founded in 2003. Lu sold Corex in 2018 to Partner Tech Corporation - a...
New GM for Lenovo SA
Yugen Naidoo has been appointed as the new GM for Lenovo's South African division, as predecessor Thibault Dousson moves to the Lenovo SSG (Services and Solutions Group) for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region. Naidoo joined Lenovo in 2016 as a consumer segment...
Intel Foundry Services alliance enables design in the cloud
Intel Foundry Services (IFS) has launched the next phase of its Accelerator ecosystem program, enabling secure design environments in the cloud, improving foundry customer design efficiency and accelerating time-to-market by harnessing the power of massive on-demand...
Cloud services, license support the bulk of Oracle revenue
Cloud services and license support are the key drivers of Oracle's revenues in 2022. This is according to a Stockapps.com analysis of the firm's Q4 fiscal year 2022 financial results, which shows that the segment contributed $7,6-billion of the company's $11,8-billion...
Unemployed youth emerge as mobile device repair entrepreneurs
Sixty unemployed youngsters from the Emfuleni Local Municipality area have been given the opportunity to capitalise on South Africa's rapidly growing telecommunications sector with accredited mobile repairer training and business incubation services from The...
Social media hacks on UK army raise red flags
The British Army's Twitter and YouTube accounts were recently hacked, for the second time in just six months. Madeline Wild, associate defense analyst at GlobalData, comments: "The threat of cyberattacks is growing as both state and non-state actors are increasingly...
Challengers to Meta dominance in the VR market emerge
Global shipments for virtual reality (VR) headsets jumped 241,6% during the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22) compared to the same period last year, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality...
Global PC shipments set to drop 9,5%
Worldwide PC shipments are on pace to decline 9.5% in 2022, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. The PC market is expected to experience the steepest decline of all device segments this year. "A perfect storm of geopolitics upheaval, high inflation, currency...
Backdoor targets governments and NGOs in Middle East, Turkey and Africa
Kaspersky experts have brought to light a poorly detected SessionManager backdoor that was set up as a malicious module within the Internet Information Services (IIS), a popular web server edited by Microsoft. Once propagated, SessionManager enables a wide range of...
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Should you use expert background checkers?
In South Africa’s skilled labour talent pool, there are many candidates who can take your business to new heights and flourish in positions that require advanced knowledge and capabilities. On the opposite end of the spectrum are candidates who appear promising but...
Securing devices to ensure e-learning grows
All around South Africa, government along with the private sector is rolling out e-learning and paperless learning initiatives, which sees IT hardware and solutions being introduced in classrooms, in order to enlarge the footprint of quality education within...
Old Mutual launches debt education tool
Old Mutual has launched an online, interactive version of its successful On the Money financial education programme, aimed at helping educate South Africans on debt reduction and wealth creation.John Manyike, head of financial education at Old Mutual, says, “This...
SAP a First Lego League Africa sponsor
SAP Africa has further bolstered its decade-long support of the First Lego League (FLL) in Africa through a major sponsorship of the Africa Open Championships, taking place today. The event runs alongside the Africa Automation Fair, at the Dome, Northriding,...
Apple MacBook 12-inch arrives in SA
Core Group is pleased to announce that the highly anticipated, thinner and lighter Macbook 12-inch will be available for in-store preview in Apple Premium Resellers on Friday, 8 May 2015, and selected Incredible Connection stores soon. Stock availability dates are...
Disruptive tech impacts local business
Speaking to partners at its business partner event in Johannesburg, Vox Telecom CEO Jacques du Toit agrees with McKinsey Global Institute’s 12 key disruptive technologies,but believes that four of these namely big data; cloud technology, mobile Internet and the...
DiData announces new appointment
Dimension Data has announced the appointment of Lubabalo Dyantyi as the Public Sector executive for Middle East and Africa, reporting directly to Derek Wilcocks, CEO for Dimension Data Middle East and Africa.Prior to his appointment, Dyantyi was the Gauteng regional...
Record number of IFS users
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces that its solutions, including IFS Applications, IFS Field Service Management and IFS Mobile Workforce Management, have reached the 1-million mark in terms of number of active users. Current IFS customer...
Lenovo ThinkServer from Pinnacle Africa
Pinnacle Africa has confirmed that the company will be distributing the Lenovo ThinkServer range and that the first stock has already landed. The ThinkServer family of products allows the company to offer a one-stop solution for both enterprises, and small to...
Electronic signatures drive efficiency
Within business, the volume and velocity at which content is generated can be terrifying, but few categories of content are as important as those documents requiring a signature, says Avi Rose, regional business manager: South Africa at ARX. If poorly managed,...
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