Technology News
Spam levels stabilise in March
After a sharp increase in spam volumes in February, March saw the flow of junk mail stabilise at a level of 70,1%. Despite this reduction, however, users could not afford to relax since at the same time the share of malicious attachments in unsolicited e-mail...
Telkom Mobile, MTN cut data rates
Both Telkom Mobile and MTN have announced new data rates. MTN has introduced new MTN Anytime Contract packages, which now offer contract customers more talk time through a combination of more anytime value and free MTN-to-MTN minutes, more text time through increased...
Samsung lifestyle centre opens in Jo’burg
Samsung Electronics South Africa officially opened its innovative, premium Smart Care Centre in Johannesburg. Offering consumers an easily accessible same-day walk-in carry-in service across a wide of range products, as well as an in-home service offering for larger...
Earth Day puts focus on transport
In light of Earth Day, which is celebrated annually on 22 April, Hennie Heymans of DHL Express says that there is a growing need for South African businesses to place more importance on sustainability and the “greening” of products and services, especially when it...
Cable theft causes major disruptions
Telkom services in the Hennopspark, Akasia and Rietvlei exchange areas have been disrupted by cable thieves, who have cut and removed several main cables. The theft caused major service disruptions and customers with the exchange codes 653, 480 and 549 in the...
Bytes launches new SAMRAS module
Bytes Systems Integration has launched a new performance management module for its SAMRAS enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for municipalities. SAMRAS Performance Management is designed to integrate with any ERP, offers an easy-to-use interface and is easily...
Business to customer communication is broken
As a customer, do people know how many business relationships they have? Listing them can be an interesting exercise: the phone company; the supermarket; the doctor; the dentist; the garage; the bank; the gym; the place they buy lunch - almost everybody can rack up at...
SA’s mobile money industry remains diverse
South Africa remains one of the most diverse regions in Africa for its proliferation of successful mobile money business models being championed by banks, MNOs (mobile network operators), third party providers and retailers. This is according to Emma Pearce, director...
Veeam awarded two US patents
Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, has announced that it has been awarded two US Patents for key capabilities found within its flagship product, Veeam Backup...
Retailers to future-proof mobile strategies
Mobile retail and banking applications have failed again and again, says Bevan Ducasse of WiGroup - and the reason is shortsighted strategies that involve exclusive deals and attempts to lock consumers in to single products. Speaking at a recent seminar on mobile...
System vulnerability is on the rise
Data centres around the world are facing more threats than ever before, with the total number of vulnerabilities on the rise, according to the HP 2012 Cyber Security Risk Report. The annual report reveals that disclosures grew 19% from 6 844 in 2011 to 8 137 in 2012,...
FNB wins innovation award
FNB has been voted as the most Innovative Bank in the 2013 Banking Innovation Study Results report. Carried out by the Innovative Agency (Systemic Logic), based in the UK and South Africa, findings were produced on the levels of banking innovations in South Africa....
Fundamo exec named future mobile leader
Gavin Krugel, head of customer strategy and market activation for emerging markets at Visa company Fundamo, has been included in Global Telecoms Business’ 40 Under 40 list. The list identifies the most exciting young people in the mobile industry aged under 40 today...
Spam levels stabilise in March
After a sharp increase in spam volumes in February, March saw the flow of junk mail stabilise at a level of 70,1%. Despite this reduction, however, users could not afford to relax since at the same time the share of malicious attachments in unsolicited e-mail...
Telkom Mobile, MTN cut data rates
Both Telkom Mobile and MTN have announced new data rates. MTN has introduced new MTN Anytime Contract packages, which now offer contract customers more talk time through a combination of more anytime value and free MTN-to-MTN minutes, more text time through increased...
Samsung lifestyle centre opens in Jo’burg
Samsung Electronics South Africa officially opened its innovative, premium Smart Care Centre in Johannesburg. Offering consumers an easily accessible same-day walk-in carry-in service across a wide of range products, as well as an in-home service offering for larger...
Earth Day puts focus on transport
In light of Earth Day, which is celebrated annually on 22 April, Hennie Heymans of DHL Express says that there is a growing need for South African businesses to place more importance on sustainability and the “greening” of products and services, especially when it...
Cable theft causes major disruptions
Telkom services in the Hennopspark, Akasia and Rietvlei exchange areas have been disrupted by cable thieves, who have cut and removed several main cables. The theft caused major service disruptions and customers with the exchange codes 653, 480 and 549 in the...
Bytes launches new SAMRAS module
Bytes Systems Integration has launched a new performance management module for its SAMRAS enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for municipalities. SAMRAS Performance Management is designed to integrate with any ERP, offers an easy-to-use interface and is easily...
Business to customer communication is broken
As a customer, do people know how many business relationships they have? Listing them can be an interesting exercise: the phone company; the supermarket; the doctor; the dentist; the garage; the bank; the gym; the place they buy lunch - almost everybody can rack up at...