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The changing landscape in media and TV
Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - Ericsson’s Media Vision 2020 is that the networked society will have been realised, with 50-billion connected devices. Of these, 15-billion will be video-enabled, says Niklas Ronnblom, consumer...
Change needed for companies to thrive
Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - Companies need to change the way they operate if they want to succeed in the fast-changing digital world. Mike Arauz, partner at the consultancy Undercurrent, believes that organisations need to...
Urbanisation spurs digitalisation
Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - While digitalisation helps to drive urbanisation and innovation in cities, cities themselves are important innovation hubs. This is the word from Maria Rankka, CEO of the Swedish Chamber of...
Intel Capital invests $62m in 16 companies
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organisation, has announced at the Intel Capital Global Summit investments in 16 technology companies. Totalling approximately $62 million, the investments cover a broad spectrum of innovative technologies. “Intel...
Ocedo enters fast-growing SDN space
Ocedo, an enterprise networking company represented in South Africa by NetXactics, has announced its entry in the fast growing software defined networking (SDN) market. Ocedo was started by the founders of Astaro, a network security vendor that over the course of a...
LBS to enhance consumer targeting
With increasing pressure on retailers to enhance their customer experience there is a massive global evolution happening in the retail space to utilise mobile to literally power connections between brands and customers in–store. “With consumers devoting more attention...
E-tailers aren’t heroes of e-commerce
The Web has entered a new, participatory and social phase. Some have dubbed it Web 2.0, others refer to the third wave of the net, but one thing is clear – consumers are the producers of the web, the not-so-silent partners of the e-commerce world. The early stages of...
Exergy celebrates 10th anniversary
SilverBridge, one of Africa's premier software solutions providers to the financial services industry, recently celebrated 10 years of excellence of its innovative and advanced insurance administration software - Exergy. Demonstrating its relevance in today’s...
Protection in the IoT age
We all have so many devices and so many technology toys, and we are loving the ability to link our lives to the cloud, says Mark McCallum, Orange Business Services, head of Global Services Africa. We’re learning more about ourselves too, as wearable devices become...
The police car of the future
Vodacom Business and Samsung have partnered to create the police car of the future. This next-generation police car, which uses fixed and mobile network infrastructure in conjunction with the latest hardware, is designed to showcase how innovation and technology can support the South African Police Service (SAPS) to provide the best possible service to the South African community.
Vantage invests $30m in Surfline
Vantage Mezzanine, Africa’s leading mezzanine debt provider, has announced it has concluded a transaction with Surfline Communications to provide $30-million (R330-million) of expansion capital to the company together with a fund co-investor. The funds will be used...
Obsidian, OSSSA drive open source
Open source software specialist Obsidian Systems has been listed as an official supporter of the Open Source Software for South Africa (OSSSA) organisation and has joined a growing network of supporters and collaborators championing the value of OS in trade, industry...
Aspect Software announces upgrade programme
Some deals are just too good to be true - and contact centre promotions are no exception. Companies struggle figuring out the true costs behind confusing cloud promotions, long-term contracts, add-on capabilities and figuring out why set-up fees are so high. Rising...
The changing landscape in media and TV
Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - Ericsson’s Media Vision 2020 is that the networked society will have been realised, with 50-billion connected devices. Of these, 15-billion will be video-enabled, says Niklas Ronnblom, consumer...
Change needed for companies to thrive
Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - Companies need to change the way they operate if they want to succeed in the fast-changing digital world. Mike Arauz, partner at the consultancy Undercurrent, believes that organisations need to...
Urbanisation spurs digitalisation
Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm - While digitalisation helps to drive urbanisation and innovation in cities, cities themselves are important innovation hubs. This is the word from Maria Rankka, CEO of the Swedish Chamber of...
Intel Capital invests $62m in 16 companies
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organisation, has announced at the Intel Capital Global Summit investments in 16 technology companies. Totalling approximately $62 million, the investments cover a broad spectrum of innovative technologies. “Intel...
Ocedo enters fast-growing SDN space
Ocedo, an enterprise networking company represented in South Africa by NetXactics, has announced its entry in the fast growing software defined networking (SDN) market. Ocedo was started by the founders of Astaro, a network security vendor that over the course of a...
LBS to enhance consumer targeting
With increasing pressure on retailers to enhance their customer experience there is a massive global evolution happening in the retail space to utilise mobile to literally power connections between brands and customers in–store. “With consumers devoting more attention...
E-tailers aren’t heroes of e-commerce
The Web has entered a new, participatory and social phase. Some have dubbed it Web 2.0, others refer to the third wave of the net, but one thing is clear – consumers are the producers of the web, the not-so-silent partners of the e-commerce world. The early stages of...