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Defining success for mobile education in emerging markets

October 19, 2015October 19, 2015 enews

For people in developing countries, mobile phone ownership can mean the difference between illiteracy and having an education, which can ultimately mean life or death. In sub-Saharan Africa 10 million kids drop out of school every year. However, educational resources available via mobile connectivity are helping people in the developing world overcome obstacles to learning, such as accessibility and cost. “We need less reinventing of the wheel and more alignment in the types of services we are offering in Africa and across the emerging world” According to GSMA, SIM connections…

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CRM for Small Businesses: Better, Faster

October 14, 2015October 19, 2015 enews

Any small business owner should know the utility and flexibility of customer relationship management (CRM) software. CRM software is business-oriented software that allows businesses to manage things like customer data and interaction, business information, and even the automation of sales. For big businesses, CRM has obvious utility because of the huge amount of business information and customer data available. However, CRM is designed to make the functions of any modern business easier to perform and manage. How Does a Small Business Benefit From CRM? Why would a small business need…

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Etihad Airways signs US 700 million technology services cloud collaboration with IBM to transform global operations

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015 enews

Etihad Airways and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a ten-year technology services agreement worth approximately US$700 million. This will allow the airline to enhance guest experience, develop world-class infrastructure and security, and improve efficiency. The transformational agreement, one of the most important strategic collaborations by Etihad Airways, will provide access to the latest cloud-based technologies and services for the airline, its group companies and equity partners. Etihad Airways, one of the fastest-growing airlines in the world, carried 14.8 million passengers in 2014, and serves 113 passenger and cargo destinations.…

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Dell buys EMC for $67 billion: Will bigger be better?

October 12, 2015October 13, 2015 enews

Dell acquires EMC in a deal that creates the largest privately held technology company. The combined entity, which will be run by Michael Dell, is betting scale will sell to enterprises. Dell said it will acquire EMC for about $67 billion in cash and stock in what equates to a bet that bigger is better in enterprise technology and hybrid data centers. The combination of Dell and EMC will create the largest “privately-controlled, integrated technology company.” Here’s the big question: Will bigger necessarily be better for enterprise customers? EMC and…

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Saga is first and only Symantec Platinum partner in the region

October 12, 2015October 13, 2015 enews

After Symantec launched its Secure One program, successor to the former Symantec Partner program, Saga has become the first and only Secure One Symantec Platinum Partner in the region. Secure One Platinum Partner is the highest status Symantec awarded its partners. In order for partner to reach Platinum status it is necessary to have expertise in at least two of the four Symantec competencies (Saga has it Information Protection and Threat Protection areas). Symantec Information Protection competency indicates expertise concerning the data access control wherever they are stored: on local…

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CEE Telcos Seek Revenue Streams Outside Their Core-Business Area, Says IDC

October 11, 2015October 12, 2015 enews

The total amount of revenues that the Central and Eastern European (CEE) telecommunications services operators generate from non-core-business revenues will continue to grow throughout the 2015–2019 forecast period, as a precarious economic environment, growing competition, and increasing regulatory pressures forces these companies to try their luck outside the declining telecom industry. Credit Photo: britannica.com Prague, October 8, 2015 –The latest analysis by International Data Corporation (IDC) showed that the combined revenues from all non-telecommunications services (including equipment sales) constituted 14.6% of the total revenues reported by the ten observed…

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Oracle ZFS appliance sales hit $1 billion

October 11, 2015October 12, 2015 enews

Four times slower than EMC’s XtremIO Oracle blogs it’s sold more than a billion dollars’ worth of its ZFS appliance, with almost 15,000 systems installed by more than 5,000 customers. It is “currently one of the fastest growing products within the Oracle Server and Storage Systems business unit.” Sounds impressive, particularly with EMC saying it has sold a billion dollars’ worth of XtremIO all-flash arrays in six quarters and that the flash array is the company’s fastest-growing product line. Here’s the ZFS appliance history: January 2009 – Sun Open Storage…

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Think You’re Mobile? Think Again

October 8, 2015October 12, 2015 enews

Few innovations surpass the transformative, global impact of mobile…and we’re only just getting started. There are now more mobile devices than people, and they’re multiplying five times faster than we are. Mobile commerce, which is projected to hit $31B in 2016 (up 1000%+ from 2010), received more venture capital last year than the two prior years combined. Image shared by James Theophane And yet, despite 81% of CEOs acknowledging mobile to be strategically important for their organization, only a select few have strategically employed mobile to drive business transformation and…

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Who will monitor the devices in IoT network?

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 enews

With the hype around IoT reaching crescendo all kinds of players are getting into the scene. These players design from Things to applications addressing various solutions. Telecom service providers have a head start in providing the interconnection. They manage their network and ensure the connectivity is ensured. However an IoT network will be successful only if it is robust enough so that the service levels are high. In any network high reliability is achieved only when the connected devices are monitored on a real time basis. The best example is…

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Frustrated by Ad Blocking? Create Better Content

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 enews

Digital advertising is at a crossroads. The two headed monster of ad blocking and allegations of click fraud have put advertisers and publishers more than a little on edge. At stake are the prevailing economics of the internet, and at risk is nothing less than any entity that relies on the trafficking and trade of digital advertising. Which is to say, publishers, ad networks, ad tech infrastructure providers and brands that rely on digital advertising to generate revenue—and, to an extent, anyone who benefits from the consumption of free content.…