Following its acquisition of Dial-a-Nerd last year, MICROmega Group company Turrito Networks is now able to provide its small to medium enterprise (SME) customers with a complete ICT value proposition. This is according to managing director Brian Timperley.
Turrito Networks, Dial-a-Nerd provide integrate ICT offering
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Social media opens agriculture conference to global audience
©Ivonne Wierink via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>The GCARD Global Event taking place in Johannesburg from 5-8 April 2016, will optimise its digital presence to include hundreds of thousands of agriculture minded people from around the globe in the dialogue about sustainable development as South Africa struggles with water shortages and food insecurity.
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Importance of quick, secure and flexible IT delivery
©goodluz via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>Delivery has always been a key differentiator in business. Whether it be goods or services, companies that are known to deliver quality offerings quickly, securely and flexibly, are already well on their way to success.
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Broadband Infraco and Telkom merger highly likely
Pieter-ZA via [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pretoria_Church_Square_(View_N)_Telkom_SA_Headoffice.JPG Wikimedia Commons]]_Telkom SA Head Office</span>State-owned company Broadband Infraco supports the government's plan to merge it with Telkom, and believes it should receive state assistance as soon as possible to prevent further erosion of its value.
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Check your blindspot on the information superhighway
©lithian via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>When changing lanes on the highway, you would first indicate to make other drivers aware of your intentions and then check your blind spot to make sure it was safe to switch lanes. Those safety measures, which only take a few seconds, could be the difference between arriving at your destination safely and causing a massive pile-up with potentially fatal consequences. Yet we see this recklessness all the time - on the information superhighway, that is.
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People and process: disaster recovery strategy cornerstones
©George Tsartsianidis via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>Business continuity and disaster recovery should not be treated as isolated IT conversations. Unless businesses ensure they also take people and processes into account when planning for disasters, they run the risk of not surviving them.
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Get connected in the clouds at Table Mountain Cableway's Wi-Fi Lounge
Table Mountain Cableway's new Wi-Fi Lounge can now connect visitors far above the Mother City. All visitors can connect, share, post, Tweet or simply take a seat and gaze out over the Atlantic Ocean.
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IT requires business-focused transformation
©Galina Peshkova via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>New findings by EMC indicate that three-quarters of CIOs believe that five years from now they will need to be able to launch new products, services and applications in half the time it takes them today. 41% say that extracting value from ever greater volumes of data is the top IT challenge facing the business, with 37% expecting this to still be the top challenge in 2019.
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Africa-1: new super cable to connect Africa
©wklzzz via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>Reports emerged on Monday that five telecommunications operators, including South Africa's MTN and Telkom, have designs on a new, superfast submarine cable system connecting Africa - including South Africa - with the Middle East (and onward to Europe) and South-Central Asia.
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SD-WAN makes networks more flexible than ever
©Helder Almeida via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>As an increasing number of organisations migrate to the cloud, the gap between the needs and expectations of the business and IT's ability to deliver is growing. With apps, data and users scattered across branch offices and other remote locations, IT is struggling to deliver the application performance businesses need to remain productive.
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Mall of Africa future-ready with Wi-Fi network
Mall of Africa</span>Open-access Wi-Fi Network, VAST Networks together with Ruckus Wireless successfully deployed the continent's largest mall Wi-Fi installation, providing consumers and retailers with a fast and reliable Wi-Fi experience throughout the Mall of Africa.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is 30 billion pictures worth?
©Pravit Kimtong via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>Image capture and related technology is speeding up exponentially and changing the world of communication and creativity as we know it. It's estimated that globally more pictures were taken every two minutes of 2012 than all of the photographs taken in the entire 19th century. Last year we snapped an estimated trillion photos - in a single year! And by 2017, Infotrends estimates that 78.8% (or just over three-quarters) of all photos will be taken using our phones.
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Mobile optimised work environments drive performance
©goodluz via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), through its new global study Mobility, Performance and Engagement, established a measurable link between more mobile-first working environments and increased employment engagement, proving that CIOs can drive increased business performance through mobile strategies that are developed and executed well.
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SES, Facebook deal to provide broadband connectivity in Africa
MrOrangeflower via [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SES_ASTRA_Ground_Station.JPG Wikimedia Commons]]</span>Satellite operator, SES S.A. has announced a satellite broadband deal with Facebook to provide high-speed broadband connectivity services to Sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement will support Facebook's Express Wi-Fi programme that is part of their Internet.org initiative.
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Tariffic survey reveals preferred mobile networks
Most people don't care what cellular network they are on - they just want the cheapest price. But if they do prefer a network, they love and hate Vodacom the most!
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Vodacom to discontinue mobile payment offering in SA
Raidarmax via [[https://commons.wikimedia.org via Wikimedia]]</span>Vodacom will discontinue its M-Pesa mobile payment offering in SA at the end of June, the mobile network said in a statement.
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Privatisation no silver bullet for ICT sector, says Cwele
©altomedia via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>Privatisation was not the silver bullet for all the problems of the information technology and communications (ICT) sector, as the Democratic Alliance suggested, Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele said in Parliament Tuesday.
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Africa's digital potential discussed at International Telecommunications Week
Left to right: Chris George, strategic negotiator, Google; Mike van den Bergh, CMO, PCCW Global; Funke Opeke, CEO, MainOne; Chris Wood, CEO, WIOCC and Willem Marais, group managing executive and CEO, Liquid Telecom SA, during the MainOne-hosted Africa Panel Session.</span>MainOne recently hosted an Africa Panel Session at the recently concluded International Telecoms Week held in Chicago from 8 to 11 May 2016. The session was attended by a mix of African wholesale carriers, mobile network operators and a host of global service providers and content distribution companies at the annual global gathering of telecommunications companies.
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Vodacom sees market value exceed MTN's
lutho tshambo via [[https://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia]]</span>The stars have aligned to give Vodacom the edge over its nearest rival MTN in terms of market capitalisation. Until late last year, MTN was significantly bigger, but a series of unfortunate events have had a damaging effect on the telecoms group's share price.
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MTN SA to invest R12bn in network
MTN SA will spend R12bn this year to ramp up its network to improve and expand coverage. The company also plans to open its network to other companies, but did not name them.
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