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Telecom Namibia sets up network academy
Telecom Namibia has set up a Telecom Namibia Juniper Networks Academy in conjunction with pan-African ICT group, XON Systems and Juniper Networks to boost the training of network engineers in its training facility.Namibian minister of information and communication...
Data quality critical for CRM solutions
A new Data Quality in CRM whitepaper discusses how to leverage an integrated data quality capability to support successful customer relationship management (CRM) solutions help organisations to manage their interactions with customers, making them an essential tool in...
Business growth is top priority
2014 will be the year that CEOs and senior executives prioritise growth – and CIOs need to ensure technology is in place to support it. The 2014 Gartner CEO and Senior Executive Survey found that that there is currently a "risk-on" period when CEOs perceive that risk...
Africa bullish on mobile money, content
Business confidence in mobile content and commerce revenue growth is high in Africa, with over two-thirds of respondents in Kenya (70%) and South Africa (68%) - and almost all in Nigeria (93%) - stating their optimism. This was revealed by MEF, which has launched the...
Services, Africa strong as BCX re-organises
Business Connexion has continued to grow its African footprint with acquisitions in Nigeria and Botswana, new contract wins and existing client contract renewals which offset the impact of operating conditions in other sectors. The company today released its interim...
MTN delivers 79c flat rate on all networks
MTN South Africa has introduced a flat rate of 79c per minute across all networks for its prepaid customers, effective immediately. "At MTN we pride ourselves on listening to the voices of our customers and understanding their needs, especially in tough times,” says...
Google buys drone start-up Titan
Google is to buy Titan Aerospace, a New Mexico-based start-up that builds unmanned vehicles (or drones) that can fly for long distances and durations. The Titan drones are capable of high-altitude flight, and are solar-powered. The move by Google comes just a month...
82 000 new strains of malware every day
Cybercriminals created and distributed 20% of all malware that has ever existed, reveals the 2013 annuals report of PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory. Last year a total of 30-million new malicious strains were in circulation, an average of 82 000 per...
Poor communication grows manufacturing costs
A lack of communication - combined with a short-sighted fixation on holding down factory capital expenditures - is incurring massive energy-inefficiency costs for manufacturers during the lifetimes of their production facilities, according to HIS Technology. “There is...
Managed WiFi market set for $2,5bn
As the traditional worldwide enterprise wireless local area network (WLAN) market experiences relative maturation and the lofty gains of the past two years begin to flatten, the WLAN market for cloud-managed WiFi presents notable growth opportunities in both hardware...
Automate budgeting and forecasting processes
Budgeting and forecasting are major tasks for the ‘office of finance’ in any organisation and the collection and collation of financial data can take months of preparation. However, in today’s fast-paced world, these time-consuming manual processes can prove to be a...
Do ERP solutions speak your language?
Expanding into Africa? Many growing South African companies are and when they do so, the first real tests of their enterprise resource planning solutions start to take place. Among those tests is the ability for the system to work in multiple currencies, across...
Eye-Fi enters the southern African market
Eye-Fi, the US-based market leader in WiFi SD memory cards, has entered the southern African market by signing a distribution agreement with Esquire Technologies. The distribution deal will see Esquire providing its reseller base with the new Mobi SD cards that turn...
Telecom Namibia sets up network academy
Telecom Namibia has set up a Telecom Namibia Juniper Networks Academy in conjunction with pan-African ICT group, XON Systems and Juniper Networks to boost the training of network engineers in its training facility.Namibian minister of information and communication...
Data quality critical for CRM solutions
A new Data Quality in CRM whitepaper discusses how to leverage an integrated data quality capability to support successful customer relationship management (CRM) solutions help organisations to manage their interactions with customers, making them an essential tool in...
Business growth is top priority
2014 will be the year that CEOs and senior executives prioritise growth – and CIOs need to ensure technology is in place to support it. The 2014 Gartner CEO and Senior Executive Survey found that that there is currently a "risk-on" period when CEOs perceive that risk...
Africa bullish on mobile money, content
Business confidence in mobile content and commerce revenue growth is high in Africa, with over two-thirds of respondents in Kenya (70%) and South Africa (68%) - and almost all in Nigeria (93%) - stating their optimism. This was revealed by MEF, which has launched the...
Services, Africa strong as BCX re-organises
Business Connexion has continued to grow its African footprint with acquisitions in Nigeria and Botswana, new contract wins and existing client contract renewals which offset the impact of operating conditions in other sectors. The company today released its interim...
MTN delivers 79c flat rate on all networks
MTN South Africa has introduced a flat rate of 79c per minute across all networks for its prepaid customers, effective immediately. "At MTN we pride ourselves on listening to the voices of our customers and understanding their needs, especially in tough times,” says...
Google buys drone start-up Titan
Google is to buy Titan Aerospace, a New Mexico-based start-up that builds unmanned vehicles (or drones) that can fly for long distances and durations. The Titan drones are capable of high-altitude flight, and are solar-powered. The move by Google comes just a month...