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Alaris posts promising interim results; focuses on organic growth, US opportunities

By: Schalk Burger 26th February 2018 AltX-listed specialist antenna firm Alaris Holdings has posted a 67% year-on-year increase in profit after tax to R21.6-million for the six months ended December 31. Revenue increased by 21% to R102.6-million, headline earnings a share from continuing operations increased by 125% to 18.62c and... →

Tanzania internet users hit 23m; 82% go online via phones – regulator

By: Reuters 23rd February 2018 The number of internet users in Tanzania rose by 16% at the end of 2017 to 23-million, with the majority of those using their handsets to go online, the telecom industry regulator said on Friday. Mobile phone use has surged in Tanzania and other African countries over the past decade, helped... →

Jasco acquires Ramm Technologies stake to bolster technology offering

By: Natasha Odendaal 23rd February 2018 JSE-listed Jasco Electronics has acquired a 51% stake in Ramm Technologies for R30.6-million in a deal that will allow it entry into asset-tracking markets through Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, as well as provide further growth in new sectors and several cross-selling opportunities. Ramm,... →

Company addresses ICT cooling shelters

23rd February 2018 Technology products manufacturer and services provider Tellumat has redeveloped its TK1 Positive Pressure System Air Handling Unit into a modular version of the revolutionary cooling system. The TK1 is a free air-cooling system specifically designed for information and communication technology... →

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COOL COMMUNICATIONS South Africa’s climate of temperature extremes presents a significant challenge to the cooling of ICT equipment housing shelters

Working-at-height training programme incorporates VR tech

By: Nadine James 23rd February 2018 Steel and mining company ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has incorporated virtual reality (VR) technology into the apprenticeship and training programmes at its Vanderbiljpark plant. The VR training solution, which has been operational since December last year, is currently used to determine... →

SAFETY FIRST The virtual reality technology allows for practical application without placing trainees at risk

A major local aerospace industry development initiative is coming back to life

By: Rebecca Campbell 23rd February 2018 The Centurion Aerospace Village (CAV), an initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is being revitalised after spending some years in the doldrums. The initiative dates back to 2006 and was formally opened in 2008, but to date has only had one tenant, local aeronautics enterprise... →

Machine learning to improve IT service management

By: Schalk Burger 23rd February 2018 Intelligent automation, big data analytics and machine learning systems will become a significant part of information technology (IT) services and support decision-making, enhance staff productivity and facilitate smart self-service for end-users, says workflow specialist firm Marval Africa... →

EDWARD CARBUTT Machine learning links an organisation’s knowledge management with its capacity to provide the right knowledge to the right people at the right time

Altron says independent investigation finds no DTT collusion

By: Natasha Odendaal 22nd February 2018 An Allied Electronics- (Altron-) commissioned independent investigation has cleared the group’s subsidiaries of alleged collusion in the 2015 set-top box (STB) tender for government’s digital terrestrial television (DTT) project. Altech UEC had failed in its bid for the DTT tender in 2014;... →

Blue Label posts higher earnings on acquisitions

By: Natasha Odendaal 22nd February 2018 JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms on Thursday posted a surge in earnings for the six months to November 30, following the acquisitions of 45% of mobile operator Cell C and 47.37% of 3G Mobile. The group’s earnings per share and headline earnings per share (HEPS) increased by 110% to 167.43c and 109%... →

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Blue Label joint CEO Brett Levy

Cryptocurrencies speculative, but blockchain can bring positive disruption – S&P’s

By: Schalk Burger 19th February 2018 Global ratings agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P’s) currently views cryptocurrencies as speculative instruments that will have an “insignificant effect on global financial stability if its value were to collapse”, but that blockchain – a shared digital transaction ledger – presents an opportunity... →

Altron secures R585m Limpopo broadband project

By: Natasha Odendaal 16th February 2018 JSE-listed Allied Electronics (Altron) subsidiary Altech Radio has been awarded a three-year, R585-million contract to establish an affordable, secure, open-access broadband network in Limpopo. Phase one of the Limpopo provincial government-led project, implemented through Limpopo Connexion, will... →

Global megatrends reshaping quality and standards

By: Schalk Burger 16th February 2018 Global megatrends and social changes brought about by the use and integration of digital technologies in personal, commercial and industrial processes are changing testing, verification, certification and compliance processes, and are placing new demands and requirements on businesses to ensure... →

NEDA TAGHADOSI Clients can access e-learning courses and gap-analysis tools to evaluate their level of compliance to the new standards

Bureau Veritas 2020 strategy includes strong digital component

By: Schalk Burger 16th February 2018 Inspection, testing, verification and certification multinational Bureau Veritas chief digital officer Thomas Daubigny is leading the company’s digital transformation strategy, which aims to improve the efficiency of the company, provide new tools to conduct its work and reform its operating... →

Franklin Electric launches IoT trial to monitor performance of water pumps

By: Schalk Burger 16th February 2018 Pump and motor multinational Franklin Electric Southern Africa is conducting a large-scale live test trial of an equipment monitoring Internet of Things (IoT) system to monitor the conditions of pumps that are part of a water reticulation system. The company is exploring how it can use its... →

Newly expanded Joburg data centre to serve cloud demand in SA

By: Schalk Burger 16th February 2018 Africa Data Centres, part of pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has expanded its Midrand-based data centre to a 7 MW, 3 000 m2 carrier-neutral facility to better serve demand for cloud and co-location services in Southern Africa, says Liquid Telecom group CTO Ben Roberts. It has also... →

NEW COOL The data centre uses a closed-loop water heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, which only uses a small amount of water for humidification

CIOs plan to implement AI, but should focus on learning – Gartner

By: Schalk Burger 14th February 2018 The use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in businesses is set to grow, but CIOs should focus on using pilot projects to ready their businesses to use the technology, information technology market research multinational Gartner said on Wednesday. Its ‘2018 CIO Agenda Survey’ found that... →

EOH acquires LSD IT to lead open source works in Africa

By: Schalk Burger 12th February 2018 JSE-listed information and communication technology (ICT) multinational EOH has acquired Linux-focused enterprise open-source technology company LSD Information Technology (IT) to lead its open-source offerings in Africa. The acquisition, the value of which was not disclosed, addresses an... →

Jasco delivers weaker H1 results

By: Natasha Odendaal 12th February 2018 JSE-listed Jasco Electronics on Monday posted weaker first-half financial results as the company faces tough market conditions. For the six months ended December 31, Jasco reported an 81% decline in headline earnings per share (HEPS) to 1.2c and a fall of 68% in earnings per share (EPS) to 2c. →

Hyundai and Cisco collaboration to disrupt automotive industry

9th February 2018 Automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company and technology conglomerate Cisco Systems have revealed a new technology roadmap that will enable next-generation in-vehicle networking with security. Additionally, the companies have shared their timelines for commercial deployment of... →

INNOVATION COLLABORATION Hyundai and Cisco have been collaborating since 2016

Lack of communication impacts on safety

By: Paige Müller 9th February 2018 Many large companies typically do not have the required technology or resources available to adequately communicate with lower-level staff, which software company Wyzetalk believes affects industry health and safety negatively. “Organisations provide a corporate email address for executives and... →

GYSBERT KAPPERS Constant health and safety communications result in safety practices becoming habitual in an organisation

Ransomware attacks among major cybersecurity risks for industrial companies

By: Schalk Burger 9th February 2018 Ransomware attacks and targeted attacks will continue to be major cybersecurity risks for industrial companies this year, as well as the continued rise of targeted fraud attacks on industrial companies, says cybersecurity multinational Kaspersky Lab industrial control systems (ICS) computer... →

Smart city initiatives must be ‘part of long-term vision’ – Huawei

By: Schalk Burger 9th February 2018 Using information and communication technologies, and more broadly digital technologies, in cities must be part of long-term, sustained transformative visions to ensure that a city and its systems improve over time, says Huawei Enterprise Government and Public Utility Sector VP Edwin Diender.... →

EDWIN DIENDER The smart city concept is about developing a broad platform to support a wide and dynamic range of initiatives and functions

New payment infrastructure designed to meet modern financial demands

By: Schalk Burger 9th February 2018 A new payment architecture and infrastructure is being designed to provide the transactional capabilities necessary to allow for new and faster financial services, says South Africa-based automated payments clearing house BankservAfrica CEO Chris Hamilton. BankservAfrica has renewed its... →

BANKSERVAFRICA BankservAfrica, in Selby, Johannesburg, facilitates payments clearing between financial organisations

Machine learning offers slew of advantages

By: Nadine James 9th February 2018 In a recent study, information technology (IT) research company Gartner posed that, “by 2019, IT service desks [using] machine learning enhanced technologies will free up to 30% of support capacity.” This idea is supported by Marval Africa executive director Edward Carbutt who believes that the... →

Solar-asset marketplace using cryptocurrency, blockchain to monetise solar energy

By: Schalk Burger 9th February 2018 SUNEX, a new South African cryptocurrency representing the value of power produced and dispatched from the bearer's solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, helps to support and accelerate the rollout and use of PV solar renewable-energy technologies, says Sun Exchange co-founder and CEO Abraham... →

VR technology incorporated into working-at-height training programme

8th February 2018 Arcelor Mittal South Africa has already seen a return on investment on its newly commissioned Working at Heights virtual reality training programme, used to determine trainees’ fear of heights and to test their functioning at height. Nadine James has more. →

VR technology incorporated into working-at-height training programme

Nimbus takes 26.5% stake in Paratus Namibia

By: Schalk Burger 7th February 2018 Namibian Stock Exchange- (NSX-) listed capital-pool company Nimbus Infrastructure has bought a 26.5% stake in Pan-African telecommunications company Paratus Africa’s Namibian operations for N$95-million. The deal resulted in Nimbus acquiring 8% of the issued share capital in Paratus for a cash... →

IBM open-source food-safety blockchain system launched

By: Schalk Burger 2nd February 2018 Computing multinational IBM in December launched an open-source, blockchain system designed to provide transparency on food safety in China. The Blockchain Food Safety Alliance has as its initial signatories US mass retailer Walmart, Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com, as well as IBM and the Tsinghua... →

Hotels urged to capitalise on sharing economy

By: Schalk Burger 2nd February 2018 The hospitality industry is facing strenuous competition from short-term rental services provided through the Internet, such as those provided by Airbnb, so hoteliers should see how they can join in, says renowned Swiss hospitality management school Ecole hôteliere de Lausanne senior lecturer... →

New Southern Africa payment infrastructure being designed

1st February 2018 Southern African payment clearing utility BankservAfrica and the regional banking community are working together to design a new payment architecture and infrastructure that will help to lower interbank transaction costs and allow new services to be offered, with a special focus on improving... →

New Southern Africa payment infrastructure being designed

Altron appoints new human capital group executive

By: Creamer Media Reporter 30th January 2018 JSE-listed Allied Electronics (Altron) has appointed Dolores Mashishi human capital group executive. Mashishi will be part of the Altron group executive committee and report directly to Altron CEO Mteto Nyati. →

Reunert acquires SkyWire

By: Creamer Media Reporter 30th January 2018 JSE-listed electronics and electrical engineering company Reunert has moved to acquire wireless broadband service provider SkyWire Technologies in an effort to expand its information and communications technology (ICT) portfolio. This acquisition complements the ICT segment’s expansion strategy... →

MTN expects improved FY17 headline earnings

By: Anine Kilian 29th January 2018 JSE-listed MTN expects to report an improvement of at least 20% year-on-year for headline earnings per share (HEPS) and earnings per share (EPS) for the 12 months ended December 31, 2017. The telecommunications group reported a 77c headline loss a share and a 144c attributable loss a share in... →

Emerging markets using latest energy technologies to improve competitiveness

By: Schalk Burger 26th January 2018 With the advent of new energy generation, storage and management technologies, developing country companies are using the capabilities of new integrated microgrid systems to improve their efficiency and lower costs, says electrical equipment and services multinational ABB Asia, Middle East and... →

CHUNYUAN GU Natural resources, accessible labour and more readily available energy can be leveraged to grow industry in Africa, if industrial operations become more efficient

Cities turn to digital solutions to solve service delivery problems

By: Schalk Burger 26th January 2018 Digital technologies are providing cities worldwide, including several in Africa, with a new set of tools to improve service delivery and bolster social and economic inclusion. The focus of the smart city movement is how technology can serve citizens, how it can make cities more equal and provide... →

WEF launches global centre to combat threat of cybersecurity

By: African News Agency 24th January 2018 The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday announced a new Global Centre for Cyber-security to try and help build a safe and secure global cyberspace and to minimise the threat of a "digital dark age". In a statement, the WEF said the centre will be based in Geneva, Switzerland, and will... →

Enterprises increasingly looking to machine learning – Deloitte

By: Natasha Odendaal 23rd January 2018 Deloitte’s yearly ‘Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions’ report has forecasted major strides in machine learning for enterprises this year. The report predicted a doubling of the number of enterprise machine learning pilots and deployments this year and, subsequently, the... →

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