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Mixed bag for Poynting at mid-year
Poynting Holdings has reported increased income for the six months ended 31 December 2014, although results for the period are mixed. The company reports that DS revenue increased by 13% to R42-million, and it now has cash on hand of R75,8-million. The half year...
Zazoo adds payment options to Uber service
Zazoo has partnered with Uber in South Africa, allowing customers who don’t have credit cards to use Zazoo’s VCpay to create virtual MasterCards that can be used to pay for the Uber service. VCpay is a mobile application that utilises Net1’s patented Mobile Virtual...
PC sales in East Africa decline in 2014
PC shipments to East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia) totalled 657 472 units in 2014, according to preliminary results from IDC. This represents a year-on-year decline of 10,8% from the 736 869 units recorded in 2013. The withdrawal of cheap mini...
Agilitude now a Salesforce gold partner
Agilitude, Africa’s only Salesforce.com reseller, has announced that it has achieved Gold partner status and is now part of a select group of Salesforce.com Gold partners worldwide. Agilitude’s CEO, Quinton Pienaar, says the Gold partner status acknowledges the...
Gemalto announces LinqUs solution
Gemalto has announced LinqUs Mobile Engagement and Monetisation, a comprehensive solution that optimises the reach and effectiveness of permission-based mobile marketing campaigns. With Gemalto’s enhanced mobile marketing functionality, operators can now deliver...
What can we expect from Windows 10?
The impending release of Windows 10 was officially announced to the public in October 2014, says Ruben Naicker, Microsoft product specialist at Drive Control Corporation. This next-generation operating system (OS) will feature an updated user experience with enhanced security and management capabilities, which are essential for business users and consumers alike.
PCI DSS and credit card information
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a standard put in place by major card issuers – American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and JBC – to govern the use and security of sensitive credit card information, says Simeon Tassev, MD and...
WD expands NAS solution
WD has expanded its suite of network attached storage (NAS) solutions with four new products that address the increasing demands for content storage, management, protection and streaming among prosumers, creative professionals and small businesses. The My Cloud Expert...
Mobile apps enhance service delivery
Smart cities are fast becoming a reality across the globe, driven by the interconnectedness of devices that communicate and provide information that leads to intelligent automation, decision and actions, says Lionel Moyal, MD of Intervate, a T-Systems company....
The five personas of customer care
From the Selfie to the Stickler, companies bring a broad range of attitudes, approaches and investments to customer care. Demonstrating this is contact centre solutions provider, Ocular Technologies’ partner, Aspect Software in its “personas study”. The Aspect...
Internet of Things to impact ICT
The opportunity of the Internet of Things (IoT) has everything to do with data. By distributing and diversifying data, IoT architectures will dramatically impact analytics, stakeholders and infrastructure. Analytics are highly distributed in an IoT architecture,...
WLAN sees slower growth in Q4
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 7% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14). According to the results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN...
Data, ICT services key to MTN growth in 2015
MTN increased its subscribers during the financial year ended 31 December 2014 by 7,5% to 223,4-million. During the same period, its revenue increased 6,4% to R146 154-million. This was driven in part by data revenue, which increased 33,2% to R27 317-million. Voice...
Mixed bag for Poynting at mid-year
Poynting Holdings has reported increased income for the six months ended 31 December 2014, although results for the period are mixed. The company reports that DS revenue increased by 13% to R42-million, and it now has cash on hand of R75,8-million. The half year...
Zazoo adds payment options to Uber service
Zazoo has partnered with Uber in South Africa, allowing customers who don’t have credit cards to use Zazoo’s VCpay to create virtual MasterCards that can be used to pay for the Uber service. VCpay is a mobile application that utilises Net1’s patented Mobile Virtual...
PC sales in East Africa decline in 2014
PC shipments to East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia) totalled 657 472 units in 2014, according to preliminary results from IDC. This represents a year-on-year decline of 10,8% from the 736 869 units recorded in 2013. The withdrawal of cheap mini...
Agilitude now a Salesforce gold partner
Agilitude, Africa’s only Salesforce.com reseller, has announced that it has achieved Gold partner status and is now part of a select group of Salesforce.com Gold partners worldwide. Agilitude’s CEO, Quinton Pienaar, says the Gold partner status acknowledges the...
Gemalto announces LinqUs solution
Gemalto has announced LinqUs Mobile Engagement and Monetisation, a comprehensive solution that optimises the reach and effectiveness of permission-based mobile marketing campaigns. With Gemalto’s enhanced mobile marketing functionality, operators can now deliver...
What can we expect from Windows 10?
The impending release of Windows 10 was officially announced to the public in October 2014, says Ruben Naicker, Microsoft product specialist at Drive Control Corporation. This next-generation operating system (OS) will feature an updated user experience with enhanced security and management capabilities, which are essential for business users and consumers alike.
PCI DSS and credit card information
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a standard put in place by major card issuers – American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and JBC – to govern the use and security of sensitive credit card information, says Simeon Tassev, MD and...