The sixth edition of the Sub Sahara Spectrum Management Conference kicked off this week with regulators, experts, and other industry players looking for the African common stand on spectrum management. As more and more of the African continent comes online, spectrum...

The cybersecurity aspects of space travel and the threat that compromised infrastructure could pose to human exploration of space are looked at in detail in a new Kaspersky and Zayed University report, "Cyber threat profile of space infrastructure". Publication of the...

As the tax year comes to a close, the 2016/2017 budget becomes sharply into focus for all SMEs. Effective budget planning and execution provides a much needed framework which allows for more informed decisions and, as a result, improved growth. “It is hard to put a...

French fintech company Tagattitude has won a Kalahari Award for its digital banking platform, TagPay, at the sixth Remittance and Mobile Money Expo held in Lagos, Nigeria. The award recognizes TagPay as the best technology enabler platform. With Near Sound Data...

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), 117,3-million smartphones were shipped to China in the fourth quarter of 2015. This is an 8% year-over-year (YoY) growth versus the same period last year, partly driven by China’s annual singles day online shopping...

Gartner has positioned South African Striata as a niche player in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Customer Communications Management (CCM) Software. The report presents an evaluation of qualifying industry players based on their ability to execute and completeness of...

Seventy2 Telecommunications, incorporating GloCell Retail as a licensed brand, has been appointed as a new service agent for Cell C, and will service the customers being transferred from Altech Autopage, following approval and transfer of these customers by Altech....

Mining companies must differentiate their operational effectiveness through their use technology, or risk being left behind. Current economic conditions is challenging companies to recognise the role that technology and data must play in their operations, according to...

The rapid adoption of the chief data officer (CDO) role — from 400 in 2014 to 1 000 in 2015 — raises important questions about the structure and positioning of the office of the CDO in organizations. There are four organizational design principles that CDOs should...

New measurements from a NASA satellite have allowed researchers to identify and quantify, for the first time, how climate-driven increases of liquid water storage on land have affected the rate of sea level rise. A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion...