According to IT leaders, the keys to making innovation a sustain able process include understanding the business in and out, setting up a team dedicated to trying new ideas, and not being afraid to fail. Some IT leaders share their outlook: The Building Blocks of Innovation > Verizon Communications     www.verizon.com There were no big brainstorming [...]

For all of his years in the spot light at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure – even in his death. Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer – a disease [...]

A lack of LTE spectrum harmonisation is to cause issues for vendors and operators worldwide. The fragmented nature of potential LTE spectrum across the world is slowing down operators’ decision making processes, a report claims. The LTE Spectrum Strategies and Forecasts to 2016 report from Informa Telecoms and Media (www.informatandm.com/ltespectrum), reveals that despite a near [...]

MTN Business has launched 20 enterprise applications focused on providing enterprises businesses information on tablets and smartphones. The need for ‘anytime, anywhere’ access to corporate intranets and critical data and applications by today’s workforce is driving the growth of mobile enterprise applications. Kanagaratnam Lambotharan, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), MTN South Africa, explains that applications are [...]

Bharti Airtel has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its 2G (GSM/EDGE) networks and deploy 3G networks in seven African countries. Under the agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will manage end-to-end network operations, including planning, designing and implementing the 2G and 3G networks for Airtel. The vendor will [...]

Zimbabwe’s mobile operating company, Econet Wireless has launched a mobile money transfer service, Eco-Cash. The new service will allow users to send and receive money, buy airtime, and make other payments using their mobile phones. Customers using Eco-Cash can also move money across different Zimbabwe mobile networks. Econet said it has deployed 500 Eco-Cash agents, [...]

Privacy has long been a thorny issue for Facebook: three years ago, the social networking site unveiled its Beacon advertising project, which resulted in a class-action lawsuit. The recent privacy changes aimed at encouraging users to share more information publicly evoked plenty of criticism. And at Facebook’s f8 conference recently, Facebook announced even more changes [...]

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Visa has announced that it will licence its payWave contactless payment technology to Google for its mobile payments and loyalty service, Google Wallet. The agreement sets the stage for banks worldwide to enable Visa account holders to add their credit, debit and prepaid accounts to Google Wallet – a mobile app that lets NFC-enabled smart [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced that it has started to sell a USB-dongle and two wireless router models for new TD-LTE network technology, marking its entrance into the devices business. The new devices, stemming from its $975 million (N159.4 billion) acquisition of Motorola Solutions’ network gear business, are commercially available to support 4G services using [...]