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Mobile data, business services drive Telkom
Telkom SA SOC today reported its group interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2013 with headline earnings per share of 224.2 cents from 101.1 cents in the prior reporting period. This was primarily due to higher fair value gains as a result of the...
Design has a role in business growth
Companies like BMW, Alessi and Apple use design to differentiate their products, but design is not just for luxury goods and elite products; there is considerable evidence for it acting as a mechanism for business growth and innovation. But how do companies utilise...
Content marketing pays dividends
Communication professionals are seeing a high return on investment from implementing a content marketing strategy. This is according to a report by Waggener Edstrom entitled Content Marketing: Puncturing the Hype and Getting Practical, which found that of the 82% of...
Kenya bullish about mobile growth
Kenyan industry leaders are optimistic about mobile content and commerce revenue growth. This is one of the finding from an MEF three-country African Growth Market Study on mobile content and commerce , which found that one-third of respondents saw mobile end-user...
Limited growth for entry-level storage
The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market grew 2,9% year-over-year with 18,6-million units shipped in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry Level Storage Tracker....
IS signs up satellite capacity
Avanti has signed a multi-year contract for over 56Mb of managed capacity on its HYLAS 2 satellite with Internet Solutions (IS), a division of Dimension Data. IS is providing enterprise services designed to deliver high speed and high availability connectivity...
Govt moves forward on broadband policy
The Department of Communications is moving forward to advance it commitments regarding broadband rollout in South Africa. Last week, the department hosted an inter-governmental forum (IGF) in Pretoria to discuss the Broadband Policy and provide an update on Schools...
Incredible Connection offers broadband
Incredible Connection has partnered with Maxwell Technology, a satellite-based Internet and data solutions provider, to provide affordable and reliable high-speed broadband connection to areas where there is limited or no data coverage. MaxConnect is now available at...
Free YahClick hardware, installation
Vox Telecom will be offering free hardware and installation on its YahClick satellite broadband business, enterprise and certain consumer packages until the end of March 2014. YahClick is a Ka-band satellite service that provides customers across South Africa with...
Telecom Namibia partners with Jasco
Telecom Namibia has joined forces with German Internet provider Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (De-CIX) and NewTelco SA, a Jasco Group company, to establish international access points in South Africa and Namibia to the German Internet exchange (DE-CIX). This...
Technology limits company lifecycle
The pervasive role of technology now exposes every company, not just technology companies, to increasingly rapid technology-driven life cycles, which are typically less than 10 years, according to Gartner. “Long-term expansion cycles influence all businesses, and your...
Watson takes big data analytics to the cloud
For the first time, IBM Watson technology is available as a development platform in the cloud, to enable a worldwide community of software application providers to build a new generation of apps infused with Watson's cognitive computing intelligence. The move aims to...
HP honours its partners
Datacentrix scooped the lion’s share of awards at HP’s annual Partner Awards late last week, including the coveted trophy for Overall Partner of the Year, while the effervescent Apil “Appie” Pema, CEO of Aptronics, took home the prestigious Executive of the Year award...
Mobile data, business services drive Telkom
Telkom SA SOC today reported its group interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2013 with headline earnings per share of 224.2 cents from 101.1 cents in the prior reporting period. This was primarily due to higher fair value gains as a result of the...
Design has a role in business growth
Companies like BMW, Alessi and Apple use design to differentiate their products, but design is not just for luxury goods and elite products; there is considerable evidence for it acting as a mechanism for business growth and innovation. But how do companies utilise...
Content marketing pays dividends
Communication professionals are seeing a high return on investment from implementing a content marketing strategy. This is according to a report by Waggener Edstrom entitled Content Marketing: Puncturing the Hype and Getting Practical, which found that of the 82% of...
Kenya bullish about mobile growth
Kenyan industry leaders are optimistic about mobile content and commerce revenue growth. This is one of the finding from an MEF three-country African Growth Market Study on mobile content and commerce , which found that one-third of respondents saw mobile end-user...
Limited growth for entry-level storage
The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market grew 2,9% year-over-year with 18,6-million units shipped in the third quarter of 2013 (3Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry Level Storage Tracker....
IS signs up satellite capacity
Avanti has signed a multi-year contract for over 56Mb of managed capacity on its HYLAS 2 satellite with Internet Solutions (IS), a division of Dimension Data. IS is providing enterprise services designed to deliver high speed and high availability connectivity...
Govt moves forward on broadband policy
The Department of Communications is moving forward to advance it commitments regarding broadband rollout in South Africa. Last week, the department hosted an inter-governmental forum (IGF) in Pretoria to discuss the Broadband Policy and provide an update on Schools...