Innovation to lower African telecoms costs
Telecom and cable television operators in Africa are set to improve on quality and increase their reach, thanks to an affordable innovation from the Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) that enables data transmission over a distance of 10 000km using realtime processing prototypes of a cost-effective 300Gbps.
US defence spending set to rise
Annual information technology spending at the US Department of Defence (DoD) has decreased a total of -14,4% in the past three years. But fiscal year 2016 is on track to see a slight increase (up 1,6%) in DoD IT spending. A new IDC Government Insights report, US...SMEs can protect themselves from tax scams
It is a well-known fact that attackers like to find low-hanging fruit in order to get into an organisation’s juiciest targets. Sometimes this is through outside vendors, other times through phishing of individuals in an organisation that will provide a foothold to get...M2M to top $90bn by 2017
Machine to machine (M2M) communications, one of the fastest areas of growth in the technology industry, will notch up $90-billion or more in turnover by 2017, says Derick Roberts, CEO of TruTeq Devices. “M2M is associated with the Internet of Things, but is a...