The tablet dons a suit and tie
The tablet PC, popularised by the Apple iPad, has revolutionised the consumer computing market. A huge demand drove other suppliers to develop similar touch-screen, ultra portable tablet devices, and this in turn gave rise to the explosion of apps and multi-media content. These devices have also found their way into the business world, which has given More...
UN joins Africa in fight against e-waste
The United Nations and 18 African countries are joining forces in an effort to reduce the effects of electronic waste across the continent. It comes as reports continue to surface of e-waste piling up across the More...
“Expect the CEO to make more ICT decisions” — IDC
While IT is still decided upon by Chief Information Officers in businesses and companies, the CEO’s role in making ICT decisions will increase, according to Jyoti Lalchandani, VP and Regional Managing Director More...
AMD unveils another monster graphics card
AMD today announced worldwide availability of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card for desktop computers. The AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card (image: AMD) This launch brings to market the second graphics card based More...
Methods to generate power savings on disks
No matter what the size of a disk array is in most applications, finding ways to decrease or eliminate wasted resources is a common challenge. Shabir Satar, product manager, Huawei Symantec (image: Huawei Symantec) Improving More...
Review: Microsoft’s wireless Speedwheel
Microsoft released the wireless Speedwheel for the Xbox not so long ago, and it’s a great addition to any racing fanatics’ peripheral arsenal. The sturdily-built device sits comfortably in the user’s hands, More...
Ndubuisi Ekekwe: ‘Technology is not IT’
Ndubuisi Ekekwe, Fasmicro Chairman, founded Africa’s first integrated circuit design house. Ekekwe is a professor of engineering at Babcock University in Nigeria and an inventor that holds a US patent on a microchip More...
Comztek honoured at 2011 Microsoft Partner Summit
African distributor, Comztek is celebrating its win as the 2011 Microsoft South Africa Authorised Distributor of the year, which was announced at the 2011 Microsoft Partner Summit, held in Durban on Tuesday evening. Comztek More...
Cisco unveils Fabric Extender for HP BladeSystem
HP and Cisco has announced another option to bridge their data center server and networking architectures. Soni Jiandani, Cisco Senior VP for Server, Access and Virtualization Technology Group (image source: Cisco) The More...
Optimus expands Middle East and Africa footprint
Optimus Technology and Telecommunications announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with GN Netcom to distribute its flagship brand, Jabra in the Middle East. According to the partnership deal, Optimus More...