APIs, co-operation crucial for wholesale telecoms
Data volumes continue to grow at an exponential rate, driven by the continuing thirst for cloud services and hosted video content, and turbocharged by the rise in AI services. This growth should be positive news for telcos who own networks, especially in the wholesale...
Cost-effective WiFi 7 to drive adoption
Wireless LAN (WLAN) revenues are expected to drop 13% in 2024, with lower prices exacerbating depressed demand, according to a Dell'Oro Group report. Meanwhile, vendors sensitive to eroding prices are cutting back on some functions of their WiFi 7 APs, and this is...
Pressure to improve ESG drives increased spend in business services
Organisations face mounting pressures to improve and document their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Because the initial steps to a sustainable transformation can be daunting to firms that have not attempted anything similar in the past,...
Vantage secures solar energy for Joburg data centre
Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica to supplement the local grid that powers the company's Johannesburg (JNB1) data centere campus scheduled to...
Employee Tax Incentive abuse exploits unemployed youth
Abusive Employee Tax Incentive schemes (ETI) marketed by some training providers has done massive damage to the training and development industry, leaving many businesses hesitant to revisit the many social and economic benefits of the scheme. But, most crucially,...
Is your router secure?
Routers are essential for WiFi connections, with millions of new devices set up daily in homes and workplaces. According to analysis conducted by Kaspersky, over 500 vulnerabilities were discovered in routers in 2021, including 87 critical ones. Threats stemming from...
Post Office warms the public on new scam
The SA Post Office has received several enquiries about a new scam designed to mislead members of the public to pay money into a fraudulent account, and into sharing the details of their credit card with the scammers. The emails and SMS messages appear to originate...
$18,5bn pledged to connect the unconnected
A global pledging event organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) this week has rallied unprecedented support from governments and companies to expand Internet access everywhere as a key aspect of sustainable development. The Partner2Connect (P2C)...
Global investments in contactless services spike
To ease people's fears regarding personal hygiene and safety and return to pre-pandemic stability, businesses across all industries are incorporating contactless/no-touch solutions in existing operating models. Adopting these practices will lower personal proximity,...
For customers, experience is as important as products
This new digital-first world has changed the norms of commerce, work, and everyday life, prompting customers and brands to re-establish how they connect. This is the message from the fifth edition of Salesforce’s State of the Connected Customer report that shares...
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Stolen hours cost the economy
Absenteeism costs South Africa between R12 and R16-billion per year, according to Occupational Care South Africa (OCSA) and Statistics SA. OCSA adds that of the 15% of staff who may be absent on any given day, only one in three are actually physically ill, and that...
Up-to-date learning for your workforce
Businesses have long struggled with how to effectively train their employees, while showing a solid return on investment (ROI). The rising costs associated with instructor-led training have added to the dilemma. According to research performed originally by Edgar Dole...
Customer experience a key concern
The unhappy customer – to most companies, this is the worst possible business outcome. How about the indifferent customer? If the customer is king, then surely logic should follow that the customer’s experience, and by association their feelings toward your business,...
Innovation, investment drive Wyzetalk growth
When Wyzetalk started as a tech project in 2011 born out of frustration at the limiting features of social business software available, nobody envisioned the rapid successes it would achieve. IDC estimates that by 2016 the size of the global social and collaboration...
IT changes focus in IoT world
Hicham Abdessamad, executive vice-president, Global Services, Solutions and Support at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) talks about cloud transformation and data expansion driving the need for businesses to embrace a new strategy. The cloud transformation and exponential...
Solutionsonsite offers Agile training for business
Specialist Cape Town-based Agile training company Solutionsonsite has announced a first-of-its-kind course for business professionals involved in managing Agile software development requirements. Designed with business analysts, product owners and other key team...
BT enhances security portfolio
BT has announced that it is integrating technology from Darktrace, one of the world’s fastest growing cyber threat defence companies, to deliver next-generation cyber threat detection and intelligence services to the global market. Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System...
Politics, oil price pose risks to Nigeria
Control Risks has published its annual RiskMap report, an established authoritative guide and key reference point for policymakers and business leaders seeking to plot global trends over the coming year. RiskMap highlights the most significant underlying trends in...
Simfy Africa now available on Windows Phone
The new innovative music service simfy Africa debuts on Windows Phone devices in South Africa. The application has been developed by simfy Africa, in conjunction with Microsoft, offering consumers using Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones a compelling user experience. Simfy...
New MD for Katika Consulting
Katika Consulting has announced the appointment of Jaco Cronje as MD. A Level Four B-BBEE engineering consultancy, Katika specialises in refining business processes, designing information and communication technology solutions and electronic security systems and...
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