Smart city blueprint for Accra unveiled

IBM has launched a report entitled A Vision for Smarter Growth: An IBM Smarter Cities Report on Accra, Ghana that highlights how the rapidly emerging West African city should turn to technology to transform its key urban systems.  Based on the opinions of local...

IDC releases smart city guidelines

IDC Government Insights has released its Business Strategy: IDC Government Insights Smart City Maturity Model – Assessment and Action on the Path to Maturity, designed to help cities assess their current situation and determine critical capabilities needed to...

TV viewing shifts to mobile devices

TV Everywhere adoption has increased 12-fold, while mobile video viewing grew by 300%, Facebook users are seeing twice the level of engagement with video over non-video content, and pre-roll ads now account for 82% of all video ad impressions in long-format content. ...

CSPs need to meet data challenge

Faced with ongoing economic challenges, declining voice and text revenues, and the need to address customers’ quality of service expectations on data-intensive networks, communications service providers (CSPs) are being compelled to consider revamping their operating...

High mobile use drives MDM need

South Africans are prolific mobile users, with mobile penetration in South Africa at 100,48%. As mobile adoption and usage continues to grow, particularly in respect of smartphones, the number of people producing volumes of online content, browsing the Internet, doing...

SA shopping malls, airports on the map

mapIT’s international partner Micello has launched 15 000 indoor venue maps worldwide, including 65 shopping malls and nine airports in South Africa. This data enables enterprises to deploy an extensive array of maps in mobile and desktop applications. “mapIT are...