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...
Flaws in proactive customer service cause more harm than good
Two-thirds of customers contact customer service after receiving proactive outreach from a brand, often using costly assisted channels because they needed additional information or confirmation, according to Gartner. This flawed approach to proactive customer service...
SA gets first Green Finance Taxonomy
South Africa has launched its first national Green Finance Taxonomy through which investors, issuers, lenders and other financial sector participants can track, monitor, and demonstrate the credentials of their green activities in a more confident and efficient way. A...
Strong growth for insurance telematics policies
According to a new research report from Berg Insight, the number of insurance telematics policies in force on the European market reached 16,1-million in Q4-2021. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21,5%, this number is expected to reach 35,1-million...
Technology helps African farmers weather climate change
Case studies across Africa demonstrate the positive impact that access to even the most basic mobile technology can offer smallholder farmers. This underscores the importance of driving inclusive access to digital technology, especially mobile-based, to help the...
Confidence in short-term insurers nosedives
The short-term insurance industry is facing an increasingly critical customer when it comes to service delivery, meeting expectations, quality, value, and price. Customer loyalty is on the decline and short-term insurers are struggling to articulate their customer...
Uber looks to iron out safety concerns
Looking to address issues around the safety of users of e-hailing applications, Uber has held a safety roundtable discussion with Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and safety experts. According to Kagiso Khaole, head of mobility operations for Sub-Saharan Africa at Uber and...
Lazarus rises again … in cryptocurrencies
The advanced and persistent actor, Lazarus - infamous for its growing financial motivations - has hit cryptocurrency businesses with new, Trojanised decentralised finance (DeFi) apps in order to increase profit. Lazarus abuses legitimate applications used to manage...
Strong growth for cloud infrastructure
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure - including dedicated and shared environments - increased 13,5% year over year in the...
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Craig Luck named MD of Datanet
Pinnacle Holdings is proud to announce the appointment of Craig Luck as MD of its infrastructure arm, Datanet. Starting from 1 September 2014, Craig Luck will be taking over from Nico Steyn who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Nico has done some...
OTEL Telecoms launches hosted PBX switch
OTEL Telecoms, a licenced South African National Telecoms Carrier, announced today the release of its CloudAstrix Business Edition, a multi-tenant hosted PBX SoftSwitch aimed at Enterprise and Internet Telephony Service Providers. “As hosted telephony become...
Business rescue is not a magic salve
With some large local operations going into business rescue recently, the concept itself is probably still novel to many in South Africa, writes Gareth Cremen, a partner at Ramsay Webber Attorneys. Reports in the business press suggest that shortly after Leon Kirkinis...
Networks Unlimited partners with F5 Networks
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Kaseya acquires Scorpion Software
Kaseya, the leading provider of cloud-based IT management software, today announced the acquisition of Scorpion Software, a leading security and authentication provider offering integrated two factor authentication, single sign on and password management solutions....
FNB and NCR win banking award
First National Bank (FNB) and NCR Corporation (NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, won the award for Best ATM and Kiosk Project in Africa, at The Asian Banker’s Middle East and Africa Country 2014 Award ceremony. FNB was the only bank in...
Mobile cloud and the software-defined future
The mobile-cloud era has business and IT under tremendous pressure. It faces a number of challenges as it juggles maintenance and renovation of existing systems, whilst looking to the future and implementing new technology to support growing business needs, says Ian...
Protecting portable devices from knocks
The mobile workforce has firmly entrenched itself globally and locally, the variety of devices has grown, it has also become increasingly common for the same user to have multiple devices, says Heinrich Pretorius, Targus product specialist at DCC. Most commonly, these...
CA tackles the mobility transformation
The era of BYOD, where employees are using their own devices and not necessarily one device; has brought about a revolution in the workplace but not without major challenges to the secure management of IT. CA Southern Africa has announced the local availability of a...
Harnessing apps to improve service delivery
With the increasing affordability and pervasiveness of smartphones and tablets, apps have rapidly become a part of everyday life. From games and messaging to banking, handy tools and more, apps have revolutionised the way people interact on a social level. As mobility...
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