Cloud should improve the business

Organisations are looking to the cloud to change not only how they buy and consume IT, but also how the cloud actually impacts the business. In fact, one of the main drivers for organisations deploying cloud applications is to improve operational agility and...

BB10 still strong in enterprise

A number of North American enterprises across a diverse range of sectors, including technology, banking, retail and government, have adopted BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 as part of their mobile strategy.  The growing number of organisations...

Absa launches multi-currency card

Absa Bank has launched a multi-currency cash passport, which it believes to be South Africa’s first reloadable prepaid multi-currency travel card.  The card allows cardholders to load multiple currencies on the same card with global reach of MasterCard, which is...

Broadband to go live in Jo’burg

The City of Jo’burg Broadband Project, a fibre optic network covering all seven regions of the municipality, will go live on 1 July 2013 after a three-year build phase.  To be operated by BWired for 12 years, the network will immediately be able to offer key...

Durban ready for exclusive namespace

The application for an exclusive Internet namespace for Durban (under the dotDurban domain) has passed the initial evaluation phase of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). That’s according to ZADNA (the .ZA Domain Name Authority)...

India has potential to lead in IT

India has the potential to lead the world in the adoption of the nexus of forces, which is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social interaction, mobility, cloud and information. However, for this to happen, a number technological and socioeconomic shifts...