One year after being appointed Managing Director and Enterprise Business Lead at HP South Africa, Frank van Rees continues to focus on growth in the converged networking services market and has bold plans to capitalize on new sectors. According to the MD, HP has changed fundamentally in light of global acquisitions completed last year. “The [...]
The South African banking market is somewhat of a paradox, being vastly ahead in some aspects and lagging behind in others. From a technology point of view, especially in terms of electronic banking, the local environment is highly sophisticated – a fact acknowledged by many international organisations. However, one aspect where we fall behind is [...]
HP today introduced the first unified system to accelerate the reliable, secure delivery of software applications and services across heterogeneous environments. HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11 unites and automates the critical activities of modernisation applications – from requirements management to quality, performance and release. A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by HP shows that [...]
Airtel Nigeria has defended its decision to change the name Zain Nigeria. In an attempt to address the public discourse over the name change, the company’s Chairman and Managing Director, Sunil Bharti Mittal, said the move was part of its expansion program. He explained that the “new brand identity gives the company the opportunity to [...]
THE first West African Cyber Crime Summit (WACCS) opens today (Tuesday) in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. The two-day summit brings together participants from across the West African sub region and beyond. The summit builds on the West Africa Internet Fraud Pre-Summit organized last February and the first international conference on advance fee fraud organized in [...]
Nokia and Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced the completion of Renesas Electronics’ acquisition of Nokia’s Wireless Modem business, which was initially announced on July 6, 2010. With this transfer, Renesas Electronics assumes full ownership of the Wireless Modem unit, which has been responsible for development of Nokia’s wireless modem technologies for LTE, HSPA and GSM [...]
GLOBACOM has moved to check the high incidence of theft with the introduction of a new and affordable tracking device known as GloWatch. The newly released technology assists subscribers to track the movement, speed and location of their mobile assets such as cars, buses, motorbikes and boats anywhere in the country. It is a GPS/GSM-powered [...]
UNITED Bank for Africa plc, one of the largest banks in the country has received approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to deploy mobile banking on its platform. The new licence will benefit at least 54 million unbanked Nigerians, about 70% of the population. In an interview with our reporter over the weekend, [...]
Independent technology analyst Ovum, has named its top ten trends for the coming year, which also include mobility, data management and data centre transformation. Business analytics, collaboration, IT financial management and context-aware computing also make the list and author Mark Blowers believes the trends provide both opportunities and challenges. “These are the key trends that [...]
AIRTEL Kenya, the second largest cellular mobile operator in Kenya has hit the ground running barely two weeks after re-branding, with the release of an additional 2.5million lines covering five numbers prefixes. The company has unveiled new mobile number prefixes in the range of 0739, 0786, 0787, 0788 and 0789. In a statement, Airtel Kenya [...]
SIEMENS has agreed to pay the Federal Government of Nigeria the sum of N7 billion as penal fines in return for dropping criminal charges instituted against the company by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Addressing newsmen in Abuja, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Bello Adoke, said the government’s decision to withdraw [...]