Contactless payment for SA commuters
Despite the fact that about 40% of South Africans use private vehicles to and from work every day, public transport is still a reality for most commuters. It is reported that more than 30% of South Africans use mini-bus taxis to get to their daily destinations, while...Realtime analytics comes to the fore
Gartner says that, by 2016, 70% of the most profitable companies will manage their business processes using realtime predictive analytics or extreme collaboration. Seventy percent of high-performing companies will manage their business processes using realtime...Optical networking spend declines
Global optical networking (ON) spending versus the year-ago quarter receded for the fourth consecutive quarter in 4Q12, finds Ovum. While some pockets of growth remain, spending in 4Q12 versus the year-ago quarter was down in every region, and the market remains...Otel relocates to Teraco data centre
In response to growing demand for its VoIP and broadband infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Otel Telecoms has relocated flagship LiTE service, which hosts the 1Cloud Hosted PBX and SIP Trunk product, to the secure and vendor-neutral Teraco data centre. Extending the...Carbon tax and the 2013 budget
Minister Gordhan announced in this week’s budget speech that South Africa will start paying a carbon tax on 1 January 2015. Robbie Louw, a director of carbon advisory firm Promethium Carbon, comments on the announcement: “With one exception, the announcement holds no...