Etisalat Misr and Ericsson prepare for 5G

Ericsson has announced the signing of two new contracts with Etisalat Misr to expand the latter’s 4G network capabilities and extend the Managed Services deal. The first agreement entails expansion of current 4G capabilities, advanced features deployment all...

Rakuten selects Nokia IMPACT for IoT

Nokia has announced that Rakuten has selected its Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things (IMPACT) to help the company tap new revenue opportunities through the rollout of Internet of Things (IoT) services across Japan. As an integrated,...

Cyber Risk 101: What every business needs to know

In our internet-connected society, cybercrime is a very real threat to any business or institution, regardless of size or nature of business that has a network, an internet connection and holds sensitive or personally identifiable data. This is according to Kerry...

TFG personalises e-commerce with Oracle

TFG (The Foschini Group) has chosen Oracle to support its digital transformation strategy with the consolidation of 22 brands into one online marketplace. With close to 3 000 stores, TFG migrated its brick-and-mortar offering to a hassle free digital platform and now...

Ericsson, VMware simplify network virtualisation

Ericsson and VMware have signed a global partnership that will simplify deploying and running a combination of Ericsson applications and VMware’s vCloud NFV platform for CSPs. The alliance includes technical collaboration and interoperability testing across...

Orange debuts $20 smartphone for Africa

At Mobile World Congress, Orange partnered with KaiOS Technologies and UNISOC to launch a phone with voice recognition for $20 in 16 countries in Africa and the Middle-East. The countries where it will be available are Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa...