Technology News
Mobile multimedia takes off
The recent festive season saw a spike in mobile multimedia messages, with MMS traffic increased up to 424% on Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Years’ Eve. Global MMS provider Acision found a significant increase in the usage of MMS across the globe, particularly the...
Adobe goes social with Behance buy
Adobe Systems has acquired privately-held Behance, an online social media platform that enables creatives to showcase and share their work. With more than one million members, the acquisition of Behance accelerates Adobe’s strategy to bring community features to...
Downturn for laptop demand
Demand for laptops will be weak during the first quarter of the year, and this is not only because of the market share being stolen by tablets. This is according to Christopher Riley, MD of The Notebook Company, who adds that laptop demand – not counting netbooks –...
Vodacom’s Power Hour returns
Vodacom has brought back Power Hour, which has proven to be a very popular promotion for prepaid subscribers. The new promotion will offer customers one hour of talk time for only R10.00 from 10 January to 28 February 2013. Prepaid customers who purchase a Power Hour...
Money matters in the mobile mix
Service providers in Africa have stated that the future of mobile money in Africa lies in the continent’s ability innovate and move beyond current service offerings. There is growing interest in solutions and services that are designed to facilitate financial...
Moving to mobile communications
With mobile penetration in South Africa already well over 100%, an increasing number of enterprises are turning to this medium as a means of communicating with their customer bases. Mobile communications tools like SMS represent an immediate, personal and...
Niche outsourcing providers drive value
Outsourcing has become a popular service model, particularly in the IT space, as it can help to deliver greater cost efficiencies and high levels of service, says Gerrit-Jan Albers, service delivery manager at RDB Consulting. However, a trend has emerged in recent...
XDSL launches broadband fibre offering
XDSL, a local Internet service Provider (ISP), has announced the immediate availability of South Africa’s first super fast broadband fibre offering. With speeds of 25Mbps, 50Mbps and 100Mbps available, more than 10Mbps faster than existing options, XDSL is meeting...
Enterprise CDN grows in popularity
As the World Wide Web continues to spin its intoxicating and invigorating web – and continues to improve and speed up global communications – speed of delivery is becoming an issue, one of the main reasons why the “next kid on the block”, the enterprise content...
Etisalat, Alcatel-Lucent to boost QoS
In furtherance of its commitment to invest in its network for the purpose of providing the highest possible quality of service (QoS) to its subscribers, Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat Nigeria, on Tuesday 18 December...
Social marketing to go mobile
As more and more consumers access their accounts via smartphones and tablets, there can be no doubt that social media is rapidly going mobile. Now, marketers are racing to catch up with consumers where they connect, employing a variety of strategies for outreach,...
New lease on life for netbooks
When the netbook was launched in 2007 it was heralded by some quarters as the future of mobile computing, but its rise to popularity was brief, with manufacturers finally deciding to call the it quits. But some users are still likely to enter 2013 hankering after some...
CES: Smart fork times meals
One of the more whimsical devices on show at this year’s International CES in Las Vegas is a fork that helps users monitor their eating habits. The HAPIFork, developed by French company HAPIlabs, helps users make sure they are not eating too fast in a bid to counter...
Mobile multimedia takes off
The recent festive season saw a spike in mobile multimedia messages, with MMS traffic increased up to 424% on Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Years’ Eve. Global MMS provider Acision found a significant increase in the usage of MMS across the globe, particularly the...
Adobe goes social with Behance buy
Adobe Systems has acquired privately-held Behance, an online social media platform that enables creatives to showcase and share their work. With more than one million members, the acquisition of Behance accelerates Adobe’s strategy to bring community features to...
Downturn for laptop demand
Demand for laptops will be weak during the first quarter of the year, and this is not only because of the market share being stolen by tablets. This is according to Christopher Riley, MD of The Notebook Company, who adds that laptop demand – not counting netbooks –...
Vodacom’s Power Hour returns
Vodacom has brought back Power Hour, which has proven to be a very popular promotion for prepaid subscribers. The new promotion will offer customers one hour of talk time for only R10.00 from 10 January to 28 February 2013. Prepaid customers who purchase a Power Hour...
Money matters in the mobile mix
Service providers in Africa have stated that the future of mobile money in Africa lies in the continent’s ability innovate and move beyond current service offerings. There is growing interest in solutions and services that are designed to facilitate financial...
Moving to mobile communications
With mobile penetration in South Africa already well over 100%, an increasing number of enterprises are turning to this medium as a means of communicating with their customer bases. Mobile communications tools like SMS represent an immediate, personal and...
Niche outsourcing providers drive value
Outsourcing has become a popular service model, particularly in the IT space, as it can help to deliver greater cost efficiencies and high levels of service, says Gerrit-Jan Albers, service delivery manager at RDB Consulting. However, a trend has emerged in recent...