Technology News
How consumers benefit from credit amnesty
It is now a month and a half since the implementation of the much anticipated Removal of Adverse Consumer Credit Information Project, loosely referred to as “amnesty”, and despite-millions of records being wiped off consumers' credit reports, they have come to realise...
Paperjet expands with Xerox Colour 1000
Cape Town-based commercial printing house Paperjet is expanding its retail options with the new Xerox Colour 1000 digital press from Oxbow and Bytes Document Solutions. Chris Farber, the founder and owner of Paperjet, says that the higher volume, capacity and improved...
A converged approach to branch office IT
The face of today’s enterprise is changing: as IT becomes the focal point, executives are utilising technology in new ways and ultimately, it has become a tool to achieve business goals – from cost savings and improved infrastructure, to optimised business processes...
Stratus adds to everRun Enterprise
Stratus Technologies has announced the general availability of two anticipated additions to everRun Enterprise, its next-generation software-based availability solution – selectable availability and Split-site Cross Campus downtime prevention. Enterprises now have the...
ttrumpet OTT service launches in SA
Mobile of today just got cheaper and easier, as the world’s most advanced OTT (over-the-top) service officially launched into the South African market – ttrumpet. ttrumpet is an app designed to let customers make free calls and messaging worldwide. It also provides a...
Commercial GPS turns 25
The commercial global positioning system (GPS) is 25 years old this week. It was just a quarter of a century ago that President Ronald Reagan opened up military technology for commercial use, resulting in the first GPS devices shipping to retailers on 25 May 1989. The...
Autopage snaps up Nashua Mobile users
Autopage Cellular is to buy Nashua Mobile’s Cell C subscriber base of approximately 65 000 users, for about R91,5-million. The purchase consideration for the transaction will be subject to a formula-based adjustment depending on various factors, including ARPU...
23% revenue growth for Neotel
Neotel has released positive results showing consistent year-on-year growth for the year ending March 2014, reporting a 23% growth in revenue. The company also announced a 28% increase in business customers and its small enterprise and retail customers growing at 33%....
First 100Gbps fibre link in Africa from XON
Pan-African ICT group XON and ADVA Optical Networking have implemented Africa’s first 100Gbps link between three data centres at a financial institution. The link provides the capability to perform synchronisation between the data centres as well as replication,...
How to succeed with hybrid cloud computing
In the past three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of the world's large organisations. Hybrid cloud computing, however, is where private cloud was three years ago - aspirations are high but deployments...
Is your MSP hindering cloud migration?
With cloud computing already entrenched and proven in some of the world’s most substantial companies (and equally entrenched among the world’s most savvy start-ups), South African businesses should be asking themselves a simple question: why isn’t more of my stuff in...
Interactive Intelligence grows cloud by 67%
Interactive Intelligence has reported a 67% compound annual growth rate (2010-2013) of its Communications as a Service offering, topping 20 000 seats. Interactive Intelligence CaaS is a set of cloud-based contact centre, unified communications and business process...
Pan-African banking solution demand grows
Standard Bank, Africa’s largest Bank by assets and market capitalisation, is seeing a continuation of demand for its services from international commodity traders and rapidly expanding regional and local businesses in Africa. This follows the withdrawal of several...
How consumers benefit from credit amnesty
It is now a month and a half since the implementation of the much anticipated Removal of Adverse Consumer Credit Information Project, loosely referred to as “amnesty”, and despite-millions of records being wiped off consumers' credit reports, they have come to realise...
Paperjet expands with Xerox Colour 1000
Cape Town-based commercial printing house Paperjet is expanding its retail options with the new Xerox Colour 1000 digital press from Oxbow and Bytes Document Solutions. Chris Farber, the founder and owner of Paperjet, says that the higher volume, capacity and improved...
A converged approach to branch office IT
The face of today’s enterprise is changing: as IT becomes the focal point, executives are utilising technology in new ways and ultimately, it has become a tool to achieve business goals – from cost savings and improved infrastructure, to optimised business processes...
Stratus adds to everRun Enterprise
Stratus Technologies has announced the general availability of two anticipated additions to everRun Enterprise, its next-generation software-based availability solution – selectable availability and Split-site Cross Campus downtime prevention. Enterprises now have the...
ttrumpet OTT service launches in SA
Mobile of today just got cheaper and easier, as the world’s most advanced OTT (over-the-top) service officially launched into the South African market – ttrumpet. ttrumpet is an app designed to let customers make free calls and messaging worldwide. It also provides a...
Commercial GPS turns 25
The commercial global positioning system (GPS) is 25 years old this week. It was just a quarter of a century ago that President Ronald Reagan opened up military technology for commercial use, resulting in the first GPS devices shipping to retailers on 25 May 1989. The...
Autopage snaps up Nashua Mobile users
Autopage Cellular is to buy Nashua Mobile’s Cell C subscriber base of approximately 65 000 users, for about R91,5-million. The purchase consideration for the transaction will be subject to a formula-based adjustment depending on various factors, including ARPU...