CEOs believe economic growth will decline this year
Nearly three quarters (73%) of CEOs believe global economic growth will decline over the next 12 months, according to PwC's 26th Annual Global CEO Survey, which polled 4 410 CEOs in 105 countries and territories in October and November 2022. The bleak CEO outlook is...
How consumers envision a future impacted by climate change
A massive 99% of more than 15 000 global early technology adopters consulted by Ericsson say that they expect to be proactively using internet and connectivity-based solutions by 2030 to personally address the impact of climate change and global warming. The statistic...
5G infrastructure market set to double this year
Worldwide 5G network infrastructure market revenue will almost double in 2020 to reach $8,1-billion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Total wireless infrastructure revenue is expected to decline 4.4% to $38.1 billion in 2020. Investment by communications...
$27m approved for African Covid-19 response
The African Development Bank has approved $27,4-million in grants to boost the African Union’s (AU) efforts to mobilise continental response to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. The approval comes on the heels of a meeting of the extended Bureau of the AU Conference of...
Covid-19 drives customers online
Covid-19 lockdown regulations coupled with store closures have pushed consumers to online shopping for essential products and services. Average e-commerce spend recorded on FNB Merchant devices grew 30% year-on-year during the 1st half of 2020 compared to 2019. During...
ZACR celebrates 32 years’ service
The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) non-profit company celebrates 32 years of service to the local Internet (28 July). For over three decades, Africa’s best performing registry operator has managed the technical and administrative wellbeing of the entire South African .ZA...
NAPAfrica partners with Epsilon
Global connectivity and communications service provider Epsilon has partnered with NAPAfrica to deliver peering at the largest Internet exchange (IX) on the African continent. This marks Epsilon’s first IX partnership in Africa, having established relationships with...
Businesses warned of ProLock ransomware
Business are being warned to be wary of ProLock, a quirky, destructive ransomware with troubling aftershocks. SophosLabs has provided an in-depth look at this ransomware and its unusual file encryption: it skips files smaller than 8 192 bytes, and starts encrypting...
Much-needed infrastructure projects gazetted
Strategic integrated projects described as the next step in the in the implementation of South Africa’s Infrastructure Investment Plan have been gazetted. In this statement, Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Patricia de Lille, MP and Head of Investment and...
Whose pet is the cutest in the channel?
It was a tough choice, but we've picked the winner of the cutest pet picture. The competition, held as part of the A-Plus Channelwise Women’s Day initiative, 101 Donations, was held over the weekend. It seems that the IT channel specialises in cute pets, and we were...
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WAN optimisation aids hyperconvergence
Convergence started in the late 1990s when Internet Protocol (IP) became the de facto standard for communication, says Christo Briedenhann, country manager of Riverbed Technology, Africa. Today, convergence means streamlined voice, video, and storage delivery via an...
Alcatel, Tunisie bring broadband to Tunisia
Alcatel-Lucent and Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia’s leading telecommunications provider, have successfully completed the trial of superfast broadband services using advanced Alcatel-Lucent’s VDSL2 Vectoring technology. The trial is a major step toward Tunisie Telecom’s plan...
LAWtrust wins WebTrust, Adobe certifications
South African cryptographic security provider LAWtrust has become the first provider in Africa to be certified by both WebTrust and Adobe. LAWtrust was certified by global certificate authority WebTrust in February, shortly after being added to the Adobe Approved...
Recordings: the contact centre security hole
The management and security of contact centre recordings tends to be sorely neglected, says Karl Reed, chief marketing and solutions officer at Elingo. Most contact centres record voice calls and interactions, but few manage and utilise the resulting data...
Samsung DVM offers cooling efficiency
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DCC offers HP EliteBook Revolve
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NEC offer new LED display solutions
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Metalogix StoragePoint from Soarsoft
Soarsoft Africa, a specialist in archiving, migration, collaboration and messaging services,, has announced the release of Metalogix’ latest version of Metalogix StoragePoint that gives organisations the ability to store, access and backup files over 2Gb through...
MDA partners with ARGUS
Willem Potgieter, MD of MDA Property Systems, has announced that MDA and ARGUS Software have formed a strategic partnership to provide property companies, funds and service providers across the African continent with an end-to-end solution. Potgieter says, “We are...
Pros of Oracle’s Sun ZFS appliance
Oracle has highlighted the advantages of Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances for Oracle’s new SPARC T5 and M5 servers running Oracle Solaris. Oracle’s new SPARC T5 midrange servers are based on the SPARC T5, the world’s fastest microprocessor. Engineered together, Sun...
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