10 factors driving mobile payment adoption

South African consumers have been caught up in a whirl of excitement around mobile payment solutions with the launch of no fewer than three major players: FlickPay, Snapscan and Zapper. While each of the services offers something slightly different to consumers and...

Flash adoption improves efficiencies

Flash technology has become a reliable, revolutionary performance-driving storage option for the most demanding and mission-critical enterprise data sets. Servaas Venter, country manager of EMC Southern Africa, says flash has enabled the IT industry to provide the...

LTE set for the big time

Up until now, mass adoption of LTE has primarily been seen in North America and China, but, in 2014, industry watchers believe it will be increasingly used – including in Europe. Derick Roberts, CEO of wireless specialist, TruTeq Devices, says that in 2014 traffic on...

Global upsurge in M2M adoption

Machine to machine (M2M) adoption has increased by more than 80%, with over one-fifth of companies now actively using the technology.M2M, which connects previously isolated machines or devices to the Internet to make the Internet of Things (IoT) possible, is set to...

Nigeria’s M2M adoption grows

While the uptake of machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies is currently limited in Nigeria, improving data-transfer speeds will play a key role in driving future adoption of the concept, according to the latest insights gleaned from IDC’s Annual Enterprise...