Dutch company launches first electric joint

Dutch company E-Njoint has invented and developed the world’s first electric joint – and it is selling about 10 000 of them each day. The E-Njoint is disposable and is consumed at dance parties, music events, bars, clubs and so on. Currently, 10 000 e-joints per day...

MTN launches Mobile Money Visa card

MTN South Africa has launched the Mobile Money Visa card, currently available from Pick ‘n Pay and Boxer stores. Since the launch of Mobile Money in South Africa in November 2012, more than 2-million customers have registered on the platform, with over...

6,6bn subscribers drive mobile telecoms

After the trough of 2009 and hesitant growth in 2010, the global mobile telecommunications market has been growing at a moderate pace since 2011. Growth in 2013 stood at 2,4%. “We have observed that, by and large, telecom services are recovering more slowly than the...

Intel re-imagines high-performance computing

Intel has announced new details for its next-generation Intel Xeon Phi processors, code-named Knights Landing, which promise to extend the benefits of code modernisation investments being made for current generation products. These include a new high-speed fabric that...

New opportunities for cloud services

PwC has released a report which shows that a new “wholesale” method has emerged as a means for telcos to enter into the cloud services business space. Previously growing cloud services by way of acquisition or developing them in-house were the primary options. Johan...