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Tanzania gets true 4G
Smile Communications Tanzania, a subsidiary of Smile Telecoms Holdings, has launched the first commercial Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution (4G LTE) broadband network in Tanzania. In 2012, Smile began revolutionising communication in East Africa when it chose...
Accsys, Integr8 offer local cloud services
Two industry leaders, Accsys and Integr8, are working together to enhance cloud service delivery across Africa. Both Accsys and Integr8 are owned by Business Connexion and Accsys is a national supplier of people management software and hardware solutions within the...
Personal storage grows in Q1
The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market grew 73,4% year-over-year, with 20,2-million units shipped in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry level Storage Tracker. ...
MTN Mobile Money booms
Mobile Money, the groundbreaking low-cost banking solution introduced by MTN, in partnership with The South African Bank of Athens, has shown a double digit month-on-month growth as cell phone users embrace the speed and convenience of accessing a wide range of...
Orange launches Campus in Dakar
With the creation of a new Orange Campus site in Senegal, the France Telecom-Orange Group, which is present in some 20 African countries, reaffirms its commitment to strengthening its worldwide managerial community and to supporting managers in their daily...
Check Point introduces security for SMBs
Check Point Software Technologies, the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, has launched its new 600 Appliances, delivering a powerful security solution to protect small businesses against the latest cyber-attacks, including viruses, spam, malicious Web sites,...
Nedbank launches MyMoneyMap
Nedbank has announced the planned launch of yet another South African first. MyMoneyMap is an allowance management tool that is secure and easy to use, empowering kids – with their parents' help – to build financial fitness from an early age. MyMoneyMap is based on...
QlikView customer Atellas wins award
QlikView, a leader in business discovery – user-driven business intelligence (BI) - has announced that Astellas Pharma US, a QlikTech customer, was named a Ventana Research 2013 Leadership Award Winner for Business Intelligence. Through successful implementation of...
Openness key to mobile transactions
If a smartphone is nearby while reading this – and it will be a surprised if it isn’t – pick it up and take a moment to consider all the things it is, says Bevan Ducasse, CEO of wiGroup. It’s a calendar, little black book of contacts, a games console, a music centre,...
Benefitting from enterprise mobility
Mobility is an important business driver in the connected world of today, says Paulo Ferreira, Head of Enterprise Mobility at Samsung Electronics South Africa. In South Africa, which is renowned for its extensive cellular network that has a significantly greater...
Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1,1bn
Yahoo has reportedly agreed to buy blogging site Tumblr for $1,1-billion - Yahoo’s biggest purchase in a decade. Tumblr was set up six years ago, and has attracted a large audience of young Internet users. Tumblr members create their own blogs, sharing their thoughts...
Android, iOS dominate market
Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, accounted for 92,3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for third place. According to the...
Fitness monitors set to boom
Pumped up by demand from a wide range of users, including professional athletes and exercise enthusiasts, global shipments of sports and fitness monitors are set to total more than 250-million units during the next five years combined. Shipments will rise to...
Tanzania gets true 4G
Smile Communications Tanzania, a subsidiary of Smile Telecoms Holdings, has launched the first commercial Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution (4G LTE) broadband network in Tanzania. In 2012, Smile began revolutionising communication in East Africa when it chose...
Accsys, Integr8 offer local cloud services
Two industry leaders, Accsys and Integr8, are working together to enhance cloud service delivery across Africa. Both Accsys and Integr8 are owned by Business Connexion and Accsys is a national supplier of people management software and hardware solutions within the...
Personal storage grows in Q1
The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market grew 73,4% year-over-year, with 20,2-million units shipped in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry level Storage Tracker. ...
MTN Mobile Money booms
Mobile Money, the groundbreaking low-cost banking solution introduced by MTN, in partnership with The South African Bank of Athens, has shown a double digit month-on-month growth as cell phone users embrace the speed and convenience of accessing a wide range of...
Orange launches Campus in Dakar
With the creation of a new Orange Campus site in Senegal, the France Telecom-Orange Group, which is present in some 20 African countries, reaffirms its commitment to strengthening its worldwide managerial community and to supporting managers in their daily...
Check Point introduces security for SMBs
Check Point Software Technologies, the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, has launched its new 600 Appliances, delivering a powerful security solution to protect small businesses against the latest cyber-attacks, including viruses, spam, malicious Web sites,...
Nedbank launches MyMoneyMap
Nedbank has announced the planned launch of yet another South African first. MyMoneyMap is an allowance management tool that is secure and easy to use, empowering kids – with their parents' help – to build financial fitness from an early age. MyMoneyMap is based on...