Massive cloud uptake in Africa

Kathy Gibson reports from AfricaCom, Cape Town – Africa is about to see a massive explosion in cloud usage as companies get over their fear of security and reliability to implement cloud services as soon as next year. New research from World Wide Worx,...

Digital TV experience in Africa is mobile

Kathy Gibson reports from AfricaCom, Cape Town – While most African countries look forward to the switch-on of digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the next 18 months or so – although some countries may slip in this deadline – technologies such as mobile may...

Video on demand set to boom in Africa

Kathy Gibson reports from AfricaCom, Cape Town – Around the world, video is taking off. While Africa may be behind this particular curve, video on demand is set to be an important network driver in the near future. Analysts believe that, in the next five years,...

Digitising documents to unlock big data

Digitising paper documents will unlock data and allow it to be used in big data analysis, saving a potential 20% of annual turnover for European companies. New research commissioned by Ricoh Europe illustrates the benefits to European businesses of tackling the...

All the winners at AfricaCom …

Kathy Gibson reports from AfricaCom, Cape Town – Ericsson took home last night’s AfricaCom award for the Best Quality User Experience, with Huawei Technologies winning the Best Network Improvement award. Ericsson Multiscreen Self-care enables communication...

Android powers past 80% market share

Google’s Android operating system reached a new milestone during the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. With a total base of 211,6-million smartphone units shipped during...