Bid to improve African aviation safety

Africa has just 3% of global air traffic, and yet air accidents on the continent account for roughly 20% of the worldwide total. These statistics are dominated by controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) events and can be significantly mitigated via Global Navigation...

FM systems in Americas to top 16m

According to a new research report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in North America was 5,8-million in Q4-2015. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17%, this...

SoftCo partners with Grant Thornton in SA

According to Grant Thornton’s 2015 research of more than 2500 executives in 36 economies, over half (56%) of firms surveyed are either already automating business practices or may do so over the next 12 months. In South Africa, research revealed that 31% are...

RS adds LoRaWAN development kits

RS Components has added a new range of LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) development kits from Semtech to its large portfolio of tools that support engineers designing Internet of Things (IoT) applications. LoRaWAN wireless networking delivers a longer range than...

Telkom BCX offers Cisco’s HCS

Telkom Business Connexion and Cisco have launched one of one of South Africa’s first end-to-end hosted collaboration solution (HCS) offerings. Telkom Business Connexion and Cisco’s HCS offering utilises the cloud to address the on-premise pain points many businesses...

Evolving to bimodal IT: become agile, stay stable

One of the tell-tale signs of ICT evolution within emerging markets is the advent of bimodal IT, or the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery – one focused on stability, the other on agility. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 75% of IT...