Slow growth for global server market

In the fourth quarter of 2014, worldwide server shipments increased 4,8% year-over-year, while revenue grew 2,2% from the fourth quarter of 2013, according to Gartner. In all of 2014, worldwide server shipments grew 2,2%, and server revenue increased 0,8%....

Specialisation key for e-commerce

Globally, the retail specialist is enjoying good momentum. Artisanal is back in style, and people’s love of specialist items extends beyond craft beer, niche neighbourhood markets and skilled bakers. This trend is being mirrored online, as large e-tailers realise that...

Rwanda, Ericsson sign on Smart initiative

The Rwanda Ministry of Youth and ICT has today announced a partnership with Ericsson to design a roadmap, and to deploy the solutions and services required to create a fully functioning knowledge-based society. The Smart Rwanda Initiative is geared towards connecting,...

Internet of Things to impact ICT

The opportunity of the Internet of Things (IoT) has everything to do with data. By distributing and diversifying data, IoT architectures will dramatically impact analytics, stakeholders and infrastructure. Analytics are highly distributed in an IoT architecture,...

WLAN sees slower growth in Q4

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 7% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14). According to the results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN...

Data, ICT services key to MTN growth in 2015

MTN increased its subscribers during the financial year ended 31 December 2014 by 7,5% to 223,4-million. During the same period, its revenue increased 6,4% to R146 154-million. This was driven in part by data revenue, which increased 33,2% to R27 317-million. Voice...