SA manufacturers set to increase IT spend

IT spending by manufacturers in the three core manufacturing countries of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) – Turkey, Saudi Arabia and South Africa – is set to grow almost 40% over the next five years, according to newly released data from IDC Manufacturing Insights....

Datacentrix announces increased profits

Datacentrix has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 August 2014, reporting operating profit up 18%. “Datacentrix has undergone a transformational journey over the last few years,” says CEO, Ahmed Mahomed. “In 2008, product revenue accounted for...

Semiconductor sales set for 7% increase

Worldwide semiconductor revenue is on pace to reach $338-billion in 2014 – a 7,2% increase from 2013, and up from the previous quarter’s forecast of 6,7% growth, according to Gartner. “Semiconductor revenue set an all-time record in the third quarter...

Mobile payment adoption on the increase

Small businesses face a number of challenges on their road to becoming sustainable enterprises. Not the least of these has been the problem of accepting card-based payments for services rendered at customer sites or at venues such as local markets, due to the...

Mobile sales increase as PCs decline

There is definitely an ongoing shift in IT strategy in 2014, which is expected to lead to a bigger move away from the desktop to an inexorable support for mobile technology, says Asgar Mahomed, MD of Esquire Technologies. According to a recent survey of 440 IT...