Emergency response app launched in the cloud

Rapid Response, an award-winning mobile emergency application, is now available to South African mobile users. It provides a fast link to help at hand when users need it most. Pamoja, the cloud services business unit of Pan-African ICT enabler Seacom, has been...

MTN sets up street lamp antennas

MTN has started deploying antennas on street light poles, and is erecting purpose-built pole masts with zero visual impact around west and northern Johannesburg in order to improve network coverage and quality. The deployment of this technology follows a three-year...

Innovation, SMEs drive SAP growth in Africa

Innovation and the development of a healthy small and medium enterprise (SME) sector will drive growth in Africa – both for SAP and for the region. This is the word from Derek Kudsee, chief operating officer of SAP Africa, who says these two factors will come together...

SAP ploughs skills into Africa

The first and most important investment that SAP is making in Africa is in skills development. Pfungwa Serima, CEO of SAP Africa, says the company believes that most important thing it can do in an emerging market is people development. “SAP is passionate about...

SAP puts $500m into Africa growth

SAP has put its money where its mouth is, today announcing a massive new investment of up to $500-million in Africa. Robert Enslin, SAP executive board member and president of global customer operations at SAP, told a briefing of media from across the continent that...

NASA decodes black hole rhythm

Astronomers have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare type of black hole, 12-million light-years away, by sifting through archival data from NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. The signals have helped astronomers identify an unusual midsize...