Oracle extends cloud offering with BlueKai

Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire BlueKai, a cloud-based big data platform that enables companies to personalise online, offline and mobile marketing campaigns with richer and more actionable information about targeted audiences. The BlueKai solution includes...

Mobile malware takes aim at Android

More than 96% of all mobile malware tracked is based on Android, with Symbian a distant second, and iOS, BlackBerry, PalmOS and Windows barely on the radar. These are among the findings of Fortinet’s FortiGuard threat landscape research for the period from 1 January...

Esquire wins international channel award

Esquire Technologies has won the EMEA Channel Academy Multichannel Initiative of the Year Award for 2014. The EMEA Channel Academy: 2014 Awards took place in conjunction with regional channel event DISTREE EMEA. Distributors, retailers and vendors operating in the...

MTN first to offer Ericsson’s Radio Dot

Ericsson has announced an agreement with MTN to trial its new Ericsson Radio Dot System in public venues and enterprise buildings across South Africa and, later, across other MTN operations. An in-building environment presents a special set of challenges for mobile...

Metrofile expects higher earnings

Metrofile has issued a trading statement alerting shareholders to the fact its headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the period ended 31 December 2013 are expected to be about 20% higher than in the previous corresponding period. The company’s earnings per shares...

MTN provides free mobile Wikipedia, Momaths

MTN South Africa has signed a partnership agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation that oversees Wikipedia, to offer its customers free access to Wikipedia. MTN will be the first operator in South Africa to offer this public service to...