Urbanisation spurs digitalisation

Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm – While digitalisation helps to drive urbanisation and innovation in cities, cities themselves are important innovation hubs. This is the word from Maria Rankka, CEO of the Swedish Chamber of...

The police car of the future

Vodacom Business and Samsung have partnered to create the police car of the future. This next-generation police car, which uses fixed and mobile network infrastructure in conjunction with the latest hardware, is designed to showcase how innovation and technology can...

FastNet debuts IoT network in SA

FastNet, a machine-to-machine (M2M) operator and part of the Telkom group, has announced its intention to build a network designed specifically for the Internet of Things (IoT) in South Africa. The IoT is considered to be next generation of enabling ubiquitous access...

Cape Town leads in city domain applications

The 623 applications for .capetown (dotCapeTown) city Top-Level Domains (cTLDs) received to date by the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) far outstrip the predicted favourite of .joburg (dotJoburg), which has seen only 297 cTLD applications. The ZACR has received 250 .durban...

Alcatel, Ferrochrome grow network

Hernic Ferrochrome, the fourth largest integrated ferrochrome producer in the world, has implemented a state-of-the-art Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise data network solution. With speed and stability as major requirements, the new Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise core solution...

Household cash flow falls in Q3

Credit health in South Africa has deteriorated for the 11th straight quarter, according to to the CCI – although at a slightly slower pace in Q3 than during Q2 2014.  This is according to the Consumer Credit Index (CCI), released today by TransUnion. The CCI...