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ASUS appoints service centres across SA

Mar 17, 2017

Service delivery is in South Africa is always a hot topic, especially in the IT industry. To this end ASUS South Africa not only appointed Rectron as one of its official distributors in 2016, but has recently appointed the distributor as an officially-approved service...

Mitsumi to distribute HP supplies in the Middle East

Mar 17, 2017

Mitsumi Distribution has been appointed by Hewlett Packard (HP) Middle East, as an Authorised HP Supplies Distributor for the Middle East region. HP and Mitsumi already have a well-established alliance of 6 years; this agreement further extends Mitsumi’s East African...

Axiz romps Enterprise Distributor of the Year

Feb 8, 2017

Axiz has retained the prestigious title of Enterprise Distributor of the Year in the 2016 Channelwise Awards. The distributor took a solid victory over second-placed Pinnacle, which bested third-placed Tarsus by just one percentage point. The line-up of top enterprise...

Who are resellers’ top enterprise vendors?

Feb 8, 2017

Changing market dynamics have seen a shake-up in the vendors selected by South African resellers as their favourite partners. This is one of the trends that emerged from the 2016 Channelwise Awards, where resellers were invited to vote for their favourite vendors...

Close call for SME/Consumer Distributor of the Year

Feb 8, 2017

A close-fought battle for the position of SME/Consumer Distributor of the Year in the Channelwise Awards has seen Pinnacle narrowly pip Tarsus and Axiz to the post. The distributors finished just a single percentage point above the tied second-place finishers. Pinnace...

SA’s favourite SME/consumer vendors are …

Feb 8, 2017

South African resellers have made their voices heard in the 2016 Channelwise Awards, selecting their favourite vendors in the SME/Consumer space. Over the last three months, resellers were asked to cast their votes for the vendors they prefer to work with across a...

New branding for Pinnsec and Datanet

Feb 7, 2017

Pinnacle has launched a new corporate identity for the Pinnacle Security Solutions (Pinnsec) and Datanet divisions, following its own brand identity evolution in May 2016. The futuristic new identities feature clean lines of black logos with accents of red for Pinnsec...

Employment is up, but not keeping pace

Jan 30, 2017

The new Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa, 2015 report, from Statistics South Africa, shows that between 2009 and 2015 employment increased from 14,2-million to 15,7-million. This rise, however, did not keep pace with the increase in the working age population...

Competition heats up as PCs bounce back

Jan 30, 2017

Worldwide PC shipments totalled nearly 68-million units in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16), a year-on-year decline of 3,9%, according to the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Shipment volume continued to decline, but the results were about 3,2% ahead of...

Brace yourselves for a tough year in 2017

Jan 30, 2017

It’s never an easy task, and nowadays, takes a lot of courage to try and predict what lies ahead in a new year. In 2016, for example, who could have predicted Brexit? Donald Trump winning the US presidency? And the possible effects these events could have in the...

What are the hot consumer trends for 2017?

Jan 30, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an important theme this year and consumers see it playing a much more prominent role than before – both in society and at work. According to Ericsson Consumer Lab’s annual trend report, “The 10 Hot Consumer Trends for 2017 and Beyond”,...

Mixed emotions for the year ahead

Jan 30, 2017

Internationally Europe has three of its largest countries – namely the Netherlands, France and Germany – all going to the polls next year, and upsets to traditional voting patterns can certainly be expected here, potentially weakening the Eurozone further....

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