Fujitsu evolves to meet customer imperatives
Kathy Gibson reports - The last couple of years have seen massive advances in technology and new business use cases - and IT companies have been leading the charge. Fujitsu has a 88-year history of innovation. It has moved from a hardware supplier, to a software...
IT leaders should focus on these technologies in 2024
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Global tablet sales set to plunge in 2021
Global demand for tablets surged in 2020, as Covid-19 lockdown measures forced people worldwide to switch to working and educating at home. Despite that, the entire market generated $39,9-billion in revenue last year, slightly above the 2019 levels. According to data...
Unified communications market soars in 2020
The worldwide Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) market grew 29,2% year-over-year and 7,1% quarter-over-quarter to $13,1-billion in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Unified...
Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities drive ransomware attacks
Following the recent disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers, Check Point Research (CPR) has observed a global surge in the number of ransomware attacks. In fact, since the beginning of 2021, there has been a 9% increase monthly in...
NTT data centre breaks ground in Samrand
The turnkey development of the first NTT data centre in Africa at Centralpoint Innovation District in Samrand has begun. The development of Johannesburg 1 Data Centre - dubbed JOH1 - is being developed by Growthpoint on behalf of NTT and Dimension Data, which...
TymeBank SA reaches 3m customer milestone
Digital bank TymeBank has signed up 3-million customers just over two years after its launch in February 2019. The bank has been consistently onbaording 100 000 and 120 000 customers each month, which breaks down to between 3 000 and 5 000 new customers every day....
MTN appointed as government’s mobile communication provider
The National Treasury RT15 bid evaluation committee has appointed MTN SA as a service provider to government, through its new mobile communication services contract, known as RT15-2021. The RT15 2021 transversal contract allows for all entities of state to use the...
Nedbank brings Apple Pay to customers
Nedbank is offering its customers Apple Pay as a safe, secure and private way to pay that helps customers avoid handing their payment card to someone else, touching physical buttons or exchanging cash. Customers can simply hold their iPhone or Apple Watch near a...
Jasco posts six-month operating profit
Jasco Electronics has posted an operating profit increase of 132% for the six months ended 31 December 2020. Cash generated from operations increased by 218%, earnings per share increased by 168% and headline earnings per share were up by 70%. During the period, the...
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