Pinnacle takes on Milestone distribution

Milestone Systems has appointed Pinnacle Africa as a new distribution partner in the southern African region. Milestone Systems is a global leader in open platform IP video management software and is well known for joining forces with a powerful ecosystem of partners...

Connected citizens drive smarter cities

Kathy Gibson at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm – The reality of smart cities is likely to be driven by connected citizens in a bottom-up movement. Michael Bjorn, head researcher of Ericsson Consumer Lab, says that the Internet facilitates...

Massive economic, societal change in Africa

Kathy Gibson reports from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm – Africa is ready to embrace mobile broadband, and the technology has the potential to drive massive economic and societal change. In Africa, mobile penetration is happening. Ericsson...

Building the 5G networks of the future

Kathy Gibson reports from Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm – It is hoped that 5G will become a reality as soon as 2020, and Ericsson is already well on its way to making the next-generation network infrastructure a reality. Dr Sara Mazur, head of...

Broadband to drive ‘astounding’ change

Kathy Gibson reports from the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm – ICT, and broadband penetration in particular, will have a massive social impact over the next five years – and governments that don’t adapt quickly will get left behind. This is the...
Omni-channel drives IT in retail

Omni-channel drives IT in retail

By 2017, three times the current number of retailers will succeed in explicitly pinning their customer and operations strategies on 3rd platform technologies. This is one of the findings from an International Data Corporation (IDC) report “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide...