Technology
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PCI DSS compliance awareness on the rise
In the last 12 months, Kyte Consultants, a firm specialising in PCI DSS compliance and certification, has seen a rapid increase in the number of companies wanting to become compliant and in general taking compliance, as a process, on board. PCI DSS...
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Going for gold
ICT Solutions, a local software development house, has been appointed Microsoft Gold Partners for collaboration and content. The appointment comes after ICT’s commercial and software teams achieved all the required training, accreditation and...
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Not just the two of us
Matthew Sammut and James Abela have managed to build two successful businesses in just 48 months. Their secret is hard work, innovation and surrounding themselves with talented individuals. We meet Matthew Sammut and James Abela, founders and...
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To Galaxy and beyond
One of the most anticipated phones of 2013 is without any doubt the Samsung Galaxy S4. After months of speculation, leaks and rumours, we finally have full visibility of this amazing new phone. The specs on this phone are nothing short of amazing,...
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So is this the One?
A nother phone that was highly anticipated this year is the HTC One. With this release, HTC is bringing its A-game in a big way. This year HTC, in a very gutsy move, decided to focus on only one main phone release, and its bet seems to be paying off...
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Meeting your business demands
Today’s modern small and medium-sized businesses need more processing and server capability than ever before. From routine applications like e-mail and websites and business applications that support payroll and accounting features, to...
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Technology for the industry
Information technology is today a major economic driver. All industries in every sector have placed information technology at the heart of their operations, making it a defining factor in their success rate. IT solutions for the heavy industry,...
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Italian boating innovation at affordable prices with Sessa Marine’s Key Largo
Sessa Marine brings an affordable boating experience to Malta with their new Key Largo range to fulfil anyone’s dream of owning a boat to cruise the Maltese Islands in style with family and friends as summer quickly approaches. Key Largo, a...
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Get ready
The Key IT Group has announced that its inaugural conference, Continuity and Security Insight – Malta 2013, will be held on May 31at the Corinthia San Ġorġ. Business continuity and security are two disciplines that can either stand alone or go...
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Telecoms market defined by size and intense competition
Malta’s communications sector is marked by intense competition in such a small market but user trends are similar to usage habits overseas, according to Go’s outgoing chief information officer Ramana Palepu, an ICT veteran. “Quality and service...
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HP Elite Pad
The HP Elite Pad is aimed at business users who need the full power of the Windows operating system and the portability of a tablet. The model in our review had a 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, the Intel Atom Z2760 1.8Ghz processor, 2 Gb of RAM,...
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Computers in 1980s Malta
Computers are now an essential part of our lives and social communication, but back in the 1970s and 1980s only the University and research centres had such equipment. In the late 1970s we had video games to entertain us – at the time they were very...
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Smartphones, tablets at Direct Vision
Direct Vision of Żejtun specialises in bringing the latest smartphones and tablets to Malta soon after their international release. There is no need to order the new Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One or Xperia Z from overseas. Direct Vision ensures popular...
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Publishers report boost from e-books
Erotic trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey helped drive print and e-book sales in Britain to record levels in 2012 with publishers hailing figures as proof that digital books are not killing the traditional market quite yet. Print and e-book sales rose...
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Barnes & Noble adds Google Play app store
Barnes & Noble Inc aims to make its Nook tablets more appealing to consumers by offering buyers access to Google Inc’s apps store, hoping to generate interest in a device that has made little headway against Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle and Apple Inc’s...
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A year of successful mobile banking
In just one year, BOV Mobile, the mobile banking service for smartphones introduced by Bank of Valletta, has attracted more than 11,500 customers who have collectively used their phones more than half a million times to make payments, transfer funds...
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How ‘Bring Your Own Device’ works
The acronym BYOD means ‘bring your own device’. It is an innovative concept of allowing employees to bring their own devices to log in to business networks. Be it laptops, iPhones, iPads or Android devices, employees have the flexibility to access...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 – the dream smartphone
If you were to be given the privilege of designing your dream smartphone with the technology available today, and load it with whatever software you want, most probably you would end up with something resembling the new Samsung Galaxy S4. This...
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Why ‘big data’ is getting bigger every day
Hundreds of terabytes. That’s the amount of so-called ‘big data’ being generated by multinational corporations every day. While terrifying for some, others see it as an opportunity to fundamentally transform how their organisations operate and make...
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Caution on next-generation LTE mobile technology
There is consensus among Maltese mobile operators that the time is not yet ripe to launch long-term evolution (LTE), the next-generation mobile communication technology also referred-to as 4G. Yet, two of them are positioning themselves to provide...
