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Namola app makes Tshwane streets safer
The Tshwane Metro Police are piloting a mobile safety application that could eventually be replicated elsewhere to help South Africans fight crime. Namola is a mobile application that helps South Africans alert the nearest Tshwane Metro Police responders with a click...
2015 African Blogger Awards open for entries
Entries to the 2015 African Blogger Awards are now open to all African bloggers, Instagrammers, Twitter influencers and YouTubers. The competition has expanded this year to include Facebook pages and profiles, adding further opportunities for social influencers to be...
Huawei commits to SA expansion
Huawei plans to increase its South African staff complement by 50% in the next five years. The ICT solutions provider has done business in South Africa for more than 15 years and is currently one of the country’s main providers of telecommunications equipment. Huawei co-operates widely with local telecommunications operators, private enterprises and government, and has become a key strategic partner in developing a digital society in South Africa.
FNB’s cardless withdrawals stand at R2bn
FNB’s cardless cash withdrawal has achieved its four-year milestone with over R2-billion withdrawn since its launch in February 2011. The feature, added to the existing cell phone banking platform which launched in 2005, answers the need of customers who want to...
The role of IoT in smart cities
The Internet of Things (IoT) can provide US state and local government executives access to timely, granular and complete data necessary to support strategic and tactical decision making. This access is an important part of the development of smart cities, according...
Avaya upgrades RCOM’s call centre
Reliance Communications (RCOM), India’s fully-integrated telecommunications service provider, today entered into a multi-year, multi-million dollar mega-agreement with Avaya to transform its call centre operations. With more than 110-million customers, Reliance...
Clatterbuck appointed as Seacom CEO
Seacom, Africa’s foremost network service provider and ICT enabler, today announced the appointment of Byron Clatterbuck as its CEO. Clatterbuck is an industry veteran with more than 18 years’ experience in the global telecommunications industry. He has held a number...
Five reasons you can’t ignore SDN
Software-defined networking (SDN) is set to be one of the most disruptive developments in IT, yet most businesses lack awareness as to its implications. Shiraaz Singh, head of Networking Solutions at Aptronics, believes this needs to change. Forget cloud, big data and the Internet of things for a second – there’s something just as big that most IT executives and businesses are blissfully unaware of. It’s called SDN and it’s the future of networking.
HelloCash platform launches in Ethiopia
Lion International Bank and Somali Micro Finance in partnership with BelCash Technology Solution launched the official pilot of the HelloCash mobile money services. BelCash Technology Solution PLC is an Ethiopian based technology service provider for financial...
M-Net studios use solution from Jasco
M-Net, South Africa’s first private subscription television service, currently boasts an array of general entertainment and niche channels and broadcasts to 41 countries across Africa. When storage allocation became an issue with the system currently in use, M-Net...
CIOs are the same but different
CIOs around the world are facing high levels of uncertainty as 2015 gets underway, according to a global survey by Gartner. The 2015 survey showed that issues experienced by CIOs are far from universal and real differences exist at both a regional and country level....
Schneider Electric invests in SA factory
Schneider Electric has opened a new manufacturing plant in South Africa, with a 6 500 square metre factory and office employing 256 people. The facility makes solutions to order across a variety of product lines, and includes an academy for staff and customer...
IT boost for leukaemia research
The first comprehensive computer model to simulate the development of blood cells could help in the creation of new treatments for leukaemia and lymphoma, say researchers at the University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research. The human body produces over 2,5-million...
Namola app makes Tshwane streets safer
The Tshwane Metro Police are piloting a mobile safety application that could eventually be replicated elsewhere to help South Africans fight crime. Namola is a mobile application that helps South Africans alert the nearest Tshwane Metro Police responders with a click...
2015 African Blogger Awards open for entries
Entries to the 2015 African Blogger Awards are now open to all African bloggers, Instagrammers, Twitter influencers and YouTubers. The competition has expanded this year to include Facebook pages and profiles, adding further opportunities for social influencers to be...
Huawei commits to SA expansion
Huawei plans to increase its South African staff complement by 50% in the next five years. The ICT solutions provider has done business in South Africa for more than 15 years and is currently one of the country’s main providers of telecommunications equipment. Huawei co-operates widely with local telecommunications operators, private enterprises and government, and has become a key strategic partner in developing a digital society in South Africa.
FNB’s cardless withdrawals stand at R2bn
FNB’s cardless cash withdrawal has achieved its four-year milestone with over R2-billion withdrawn since its launch in February 2011. The feature, added to the existing cell phone banking platform which launched in 2005, answers the need of customers who want to...
The role of IoT in smart cities
The Internet of Things (IoT) can provide US state and local government executives access to timely, granular and complete data necessary to support strategic and tactical decision making. This access is an important part of the development of smart cities, according...
Avaya upgrades RCOM’s call centre
Reliance Communications (RCOM), India’s fully-integrated telecommunications service provider, today entered into a multi-year, multi-million dollar mega-agreement with Avaya to transform its call centre operations. With more than 110-million customers, Reliance...
Clatterbuck appointed as Seacom CEO
Seacom, Africa’s foremost network service provider and ICT enabler, today announced the appointment of Byron Clatterbuck as its CEO. Clatterbuck is an industry veteran with more than 18 years’ experience in the global telecommunications industry. He has held a number...