Audio streaming set to boost music industry

Consumer and advertising revenue from recorded music in North America and Western Europe is expected to increase for the first time since 2010, according to a new report from HIS. IHS forecasts that by 2018, revenue will increase slightly from $12-billion to almost...

SA’s FutureSoft opens office in London

South Africa-based FutureSoft, developer of the Excalibur Debt Collection Management System, has made a further international foray with the opening of an office in London. Countries outside of South Africa in which users can now find Excalibur include Botswana,...

Unitel, Ericsson clock 450Mbps LTE demo

Unitel and Ericsson have achieved a 450Mbps LTE downlink speed by combining three 20MHz LTE carriers on the Unitel commercial network in Angola, using Ericsson multi-standard hardware and software. The two companies announced the successful demonstration of the end-to-end LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation (CA) solution capable of supporting data speeds up to 450Mbps.

Data breaches escalate in 2014

Data breaches escalate in 2014

More than 1 500 data breaches led to 1-billion data records compromised worldwide during 2014. These numbers represent a 49% increase in data breaches and a 78% increase in data records that were either stolen or lost compared to 2013. This is according to Gemalto’s...

E-commerce start-ups, niche players to grow

2015 will see many more new e-commerce start-ups along with continued growth and innovation by established niche players. This is the prediction from PayGate CEO Peter Harvey, who says: “Five years ago we’d load ten start-ups onto our payment gateway for every...

HSRC endorses Tshimologong project

Wits University, together with the Jo’burg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE), has received official endorsement from the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) for the further development of the Tshimologong Precinct.  The innovative new-age software skills...