Shenzhen aims for smart traffic management

Kathy Gibson at Huawei Connect in Shanghai – Shenzhen, one of the four largest and wealthiest cities in China, was a modest village of just 30 000 people in 1979. Today it is the manufacturing hub for the world’s technology industry, with a population of about...

Huawei moves on building five global clouds

Kathy Gibson at Huawei Connect in Shanghai –  The intelligent world is here, with the cloud driving procurement of IT services and technologies. In the near future, there will be five clouds around the world, says Guo Ping, deputy chairman and rotating CEO of Huawei...
SA companies invest in software

SA companies invest in software

Despite economic uncertainties and political instability, large and medium-sized organisations in South Africa continue to steadily increase their software investments to quickly respond to changing market conditions and enhance their core competitiveness. This has...

‘Outrageous’ top-up offer from OpenWeb

OpenWeb has announced an immediate reduction in top-up pricing for its Rain Network LTE mobile offering. Effective immediately, top-ups will cost R10 per Gig and can be purchased on demand and will be effective for 30 days from the date of purchase. In addition, the...

Windfall for Datatec shareholders

The completion of the sale by Datatec of its Westcon-Comstor business in North America and Latin America and of 10% of the remaining part of Westcon to Synnex could see a major windfall for shareholders. In a statement, the company says the proceeds of the transaction...

Liquid Telecom offers MS cloud

Liquid Telecom has partnered with Microsoft through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme to deliver scalable and secure cloud services across Africa. As an official CSP partner, Liquid Telecom will for the first time serve businesses of all sizes in Africa with...