Commercial GPS turns 25
The commercial global positioning system (GPS) is 25 years old this week. It was just a quarter of a century ago that President Ronald Reagan opened up military technology for commercial use, resulting in the first GPS devices shipping to retailers on 25 May 1989. The...Autopage snaps up Nashua Mobile users
Autopage Cellular is to buy Nashua Mobile’s Cell C subscriber base of approximately 65 000 users, for about R91,5-million. The purchase consideration for the transaction will be subject to a formula-based adjustment depending on various factors, including ARPU...23% revenue growth for Neotel
Neotel has released positive results showing consistent year-on-year growth for the year ending March 2014, reporting a 23% growth in revenue. The company also announced a 28% increase in business customers and its small enterprise and retail customers growing at 33%....First 100Gbps fibre link in Africa from XON
Pan-African ICT group XON and ADVA Optical Networking have implemented Africa’s first 100Gbps link between three data centres at a financial institution. The link provides the capability to perform synchronisation between the data centres as well as replication,...How to succeed with hybrid cloud computing
In the past three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of the world’s large organisations. Hybrid cloud computing, however, is where private cloud was three years ago – aspirations are high but...