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Online retailers need to manage risk
Retailers moving into the online space for the first time face risks that don’t exist in the bricks-and-mortar world, says Brendon Williamson, GM of business development at payment services provider PayGate – and they need to ensure they are well protected. Merchants...
MTN standardises international call rates
With effect from Saturday (1 March), MTN South Africa standardised international call rates across its prepaid, top up, and contract price plans to make it easier for customers to manage their budgets when reaching out to family and friends who are abroad. "As a...
10 ways to improve reliability
By Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, official representatives of SoftExpert in South Africa and Ricky Smith, maintenance consultant and specialist and well-known published author. * Purchase a copy of Terry Wireman’s book “World Class Maintenance”....
WAPA partnerships boost wireless industry
The Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) is growing in numbers as an ever-wider circle of stakeholders join its membership ranks. WAPA currently has 185 members, an increase from 143 at this time last year, representing 28% year over year growth. One of...
SA cloud set to reach $2,8bn
The value of the combined IS outsourcing, managed services and hosted services market in South Africa is expected to increase 10,9% year-on-year in 2014 to total $2,8-billion, according to the latest insights from global IT market intelligence firm International Data...
Telkom challenges Vodacom, MTN on MTR
Telkom’s CEO Sipho Maseko has challenged MTN and Vodacom to consider the effect their court application to relook at mobile termination rates (MTR) could have on the future of South Africa. In an open letter to MTN SA’s CEO Zunaid Bulbulia and Vodacom’s CEO Shameek...
Companies set for information crisis
The rise of big data, social networking and mobile interactions, coupled with an accelerating increase in the amount of structured and unstructured information enabled by cloud-based technologies, is forcing organisations to focus on the enterprise information that is...
Tablets drive smart connected device sales
The smart connected device (SCD) market continued to post strong growth in 4Q13, with combined shipments of PCs, tablets and smartphones reaching nearly 70-million units in the fourth quarter, totalling nearly 230-million units for the year 2013 and posting a 9,7%...
Microsoft, Adobe, HP call for patent reform
Microsoft has joined the call to scrap patents that are overly broad. It has been joined by Adobe and HP in its application. Horacio Gutierrez, deputy general counsel and corporate vice-president: legal and corporate affairs at Microsoft, says the company has filed an...
Integr8 makes it into global MSP list again
South African ICT managed services provider (MSP) Integr8 has again been listed amongst the top 50 MSPs globally. According to this year’s Global MSPMentor 501 Edition, Integr8 is the only South African based company to be ranked in the top 50 MSPs globally, out the...
TCC rolls out Aspect solution
The UK-based contact centre outsourcer, The Contact Company (TCC), has chosen Aspect Software to improve efficiency and productivity across 1 000 seats over two sites in Birkenhead. The largest independent contact centre in the UK will deploy Aspect’s workforce...
The supply chain has gone global
When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. The famous quote was initially uttered about France and Europe by Austria’s Prince Klemens von Metternich during the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars to describe the effect it had on the rest of Europe, says Simon...
Know your NAS
Network attached storage (NAS) is a fast-growing technology in today’s data driven world, and has become something of a buzzword as it gains popularity. But what exactly is NAS? How does it differ from a file server? What benefits does it offer and what is RAID? What...
Online retailers need to manage risk
Retailers moving into the online space for the first time face risks that don’t exist in the bricks-and-mortar world, says Brendon Williamson, GM of business development at payment services provider PayGate – and they need to ensure they are well protected. Merchants...
MTN standardises international call rates
With effect from Saturday (1 March), MTN South Africa standardised international call rates across its prepaid, top up, and contract price plans to make it easier for customers to manage their budgets when reaching out to family and friends who are abroad. "As a...
10 ways to improve reliability
By Ian Huntly, CEO of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, official representatives of SoftExpert in South Africa and Ricky Smith, maintenance consultant and specialist and well-known published author. * Purchase a copy of Terry Wireman’s book “World Class Maintenance”....
WAPA partnerships boost wireless industry
The Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) is growing in numbers as an ever-wider circle of stakeholders join its membership ranks. WAPA currently has 185 members, an increase from 143 at this time last year, representing 28% year over year growth. One of...
SA cloud set to reach $2,8bn
The value of the combined IS outsourcing, managed services and hosted services market in South Africa is expected to increase 10,9% year-on-year in 2014 to total $2,8-billion, according to the latest insights from global IT market intelligence firm International Data...
Telkom challenges Vodacom, MTN on MTR
Telkom’s CEO Sipho Maseko has challenged MTN and Vodacom to consider the effect their court application to relook at mobile termination rates (MTR) could have on the future of South Africa. In an open letter to MTN SA’s CEO Zunaid Bulbulia and Vodacom’s CEO Shameek...
Companies set for information crisis
The rise of big data, social networking and mobile interactions, coupled with an accelerating increase in the amount of structured and unstructured information enabled by cloud-based technologies, is forcing organisations to focus on the enterprise information that is...