Technology News
Blue Label increases revenue, earnings
Blue Label Telecoms has increased its headline earnings per share by 15% to 42.73 cents for the six months ended 30 November 2014. The growth was achieved in spite of the group’s share of losses in Blue Label Mexico increasing by R14,5-million, which negatively...
Standard Bank ready for smartcard ID rollout
Standard Bank has confirmed that it will roll out new smartcard IDs at branches countrywide, as announced by the Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba, earlier this week. Sibongiseni Ngundze, head of retail banking at Standard Bank, says: “We always aim to put our customer at the heart of our operation. This form of public and private collaboration marks a move to cement our strategy of becoming a truly innovative customer-centric institution.”
Airtel Niger, Ericsson deploy 3G network
Airtel, Niger’s leading mobile service provider, has named Ericsson as their exclusive 3G HSPA end-to-end hardware, software and related service vendor in Niger Republic. The deployment of the state of the art 3G end-to-end network complements the telecom operator’s...
No one is safe from cyber-attacks
With the growth in popularity of online banking services, the theft of banking information has become one of the most common types of criminal activity on the Internet. In addition to stealing access codes for personal bank accounts – and corporate bank accounts –...
Intelsat, Azercosmos partner on satellite
Intelsat and Azercosmos have announced that the two companies have signed a strategic agreement at the 45 degrees east orbital position. The two companies will closely collaborate on the design of the Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 satellite and leverage their respective...
Has load-shedding killed the electric car?
Two years ago, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies announced a whopping 35% reimbursement on production costs over three years as an incentive for local electric car manufacturers. So far, only Ethiopia and South Africa have attempted to launch electric cars on the...
Agile adoption set to grow in 2015
2015 may be the year the pendulum swings – towards more rapid adoption, or a large agile failure. Sufficient Agile skills, improved market understanding of Agile and changes to company philosophy to align with agile values will be the weighing factors, according to niche consulting and technology company, BSG. Creating continuous business value accelerates time to market, increases productivity and allows IT and business to better align so that changing priorities can be better managed. The true challenge, however, is to create more market understanding on what an Agile approach is and, what it takes to succeed.
Gemalto expands Trusted Services Hub
Gemalto is growing again the capabilities of its Allynis Trusted Services Hub that permits an easy deployment of security-sensitive applications by enterprises, banks and other digital service providers, adding the reach to more than 350-million additional mobile...
Proactive unstructured data management
Rampant growth in unstructured data is not a new phenomenon, however, this type of data has typically proven to be challenging to manage effectively, says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft International. This challenge is only exacerbated by the risks and...
Cisco launches Meraki, ONE software in SA
Fast IT is a transformational new model that Cisco is using to help South African customers and partners simplify IT operations and make the most of the digital economy. The model evolves and unifies infrastructure, platform, and applications to reduce complexity,...
Mobile key for Internet access in Africa
Africa is poised to become a hotbed for mobile growth and commerce in the coming years, and is the driving force behind the continent’s accelerating Internet adoption. These are among the findings of Opera Mediaworks’ State of Mobile Advertising report based on data...
ID management vital for IoT success
Managing identities and access is critical to the success of the Internet of Things (IoT), but in its current form identity and access management (IAM) cannot provide the scale or manage the complexity that the IoT brings to the organisation, according to Gartner....
Pinnacle earnings decline as revenue grows
Pinnacle Holdings has issued a trading statement alerting shareholders to the likelihood of its earnings declining for the six months to 31 December, despite an increase in revenue. Revenue is expected to grow 14% to 15% but headline earnings will likely be down 16%...
Blue Label increases revenue, earnings
Blue Label Telecoms has increased its headline earnings per share by 15% to 42.73 cents for the six months ended 30 November 2014. The growth was achieved in spite of the group’s share of losses in Blue Label Mexico increasing by R14,5-million, which negatively...
Standard Bank ready for smartcard ID rollout
Standard Bank has confirmed that it will roll out new smartcard IDs at branches countrywide, as announced by the Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba, earlier this week. Sibongiseni Ngundze, head of retail banking at Standard Bank, says: “We always aim to put our customer at the heart of our operation. This form of public and private collaboration marks a move to cement our strategy of becoming a truly innovative customer-centric institution.”
Airtel Niger, Ericsson deploy 3G network
Airtel, Niger’s leading mobile service provider, has named Ericsson as their exclusive 3G HSPA end-to-end hardware, software and related service vendor in Niger Republic. The deployment of the state of the art 3G end-to-end network complements the telecom operator’s...
No one is safe from cyber-attacks
With the growth in popularity of online banking services, the theft of banking information has become one of the most common types of criminal activity on the Internet. In addition to stealing access codes for personal bank accounts – and corporate bank accounts –...
Intelsat, Azercosmos partner on satellite
Intelsat and Azercosmos have announced that the two companies have signed a strategic agreement at the 45 degrees east orbital position. The two companies will closely collaborate on the design of the Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 satellite and leverage their respective...
Has load-shedding killed the electric car?
Two years ago, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies announced a whopping 35% reimbursement on production costs over three years as an incentive for local electric car manufacturers. So far, only Ethiopia and South Africa have attempted to launch electric cars on the...
Agile adoption set to grow in 2015
2015 may be the year the pendulum swings – towards more rapid adoption, or a large agile failure. Sufficient Agile skills, improved market understanding of Agile and changes to company philosophy to align with agile values will be the weighing factors, according to niche consulting and technology company, BSG. Creating continuous business value accelerates time to market, increases productivity and allows IT and business to better align so that changing priorities can be better managed. The true challenge, however, is to create more market understanding on what an Agile approach is and, what it takes to succeed.