DCC offers Dell Venue 8 tablet
Mobility is fuelling the uptake of tablets in the consumer market, allowing users to work and play on the move. Accessing the Internet, downloading applications, monitoring social media platforms and more is easily done on these devices at any time. Distributor Drive...
Bring your own disruption
Technology is the single most important external factor influencing organisations today, and it is fundamentally changing the business environment. No longer is IT limited to an administrative back office tool – today, technology is everywhere, from the back end right...
Enterprise mobility empowers the workforce
As smartphone adoption in South Africa continues to accelerate beyond all expectation, enterprises are increasingly focussing on how to capitalise on a "mobile-enabled" workforce, says Marc Fletcher, director at Intervate – a T-Systems company. The fact that so many...
Wearable tech has knock-on effect on BYOD
There was a period a couple of years ago when it seemed that every other article you read mentioned BYOD. Now it seems to have largely fallen off the radar, replaced by bring your own anything (BYOx) and has become an accepted part of the IT landscape under the wider...
Securicom Messaging offers rich USSD
Mobile solutions vendor, Securicom Messaging, has launched a robust and versatile USSD (unstructured supplementary service data) engine and a Mobi-Competition System to enhance its suite of services that enable companies to engage with their customers via mobile...
Samsung announces first B2B tablet
Samsung Electronics South Africa unveiled the Galaxy Tab Active, Samsung’s first tablet built specifically for business, applying Samsung’s trusted mobile leadership and people-inspired innovation philosophy to the workplace. The next step in Samsung’s legacy of...
New convertible notebook lines from Acer
Acer has announced the Aspire R 13 and Aspire R 14 Series, two new convertible notebook lines that can transition between various notebook and tablet style modes of operation. The R 13 Series features Acer’s unique Ezel Aero Hinge that allows the display to rotate...
Corobrik launches smartphone app
Five years ago, the only tablets you found on a building site were the occasional Panado to cure jackhammer-induced headaches. Today, however, the way architects and construction teams work has morphed dramatically. It is estimated that there are now over 29-million...
Swiss Post rolls out Zetes solution
After undertaking a competitive tender process, Swiss Post has entrusted Zetes with a project to renew the company’s mobile infrastructure. Zetes will be providing all mobile devices and associated ZetesTotalCare maintenance services to the national postal and courier...
Remote working increases productivity
Remote working describes the arrangement by which employees work mainly from home and telecommunicate with their company, says Yossi Hasson, co-founder and CEO at SYNAQ. The practice is becoming increasingly popular with mainstream organisations as the link between...
CA tackles the mobility transformation
The era of BYOD, where employees are using their own devices and not necessarily one device; has brought about a revolution in the workplace but not without major challenges to the secure management of IT. CA Southern Africa has announced the local availability of a...
BYOD may be forced on companies
The bring you own device (BYOD) technology trend is on the increase as more and more users want to be able to work off their chosen devices in the workplace. But many companies are battling to integrate this new technology trend into the enterprise-wide platforms....