More than 600 telco leaders are due to attend East Africa’s premier learning and networking event which gets underway on Wednesday.
East Africa Com is a two-day, multi-streamed conference with a 40+ stand networking exhibition.
The conference is the only event to represent the East African region and evolved from the highly successful GSM>3G World Series.
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Well, it was only a matter of time. The data storage market has slowed down – and much more than anticipated, writes Samantha Sai for storage.biz-news.
IDC revealed last week that global external disk storage systems’ factory revenues dropped by a half per cent in the fourth quarter.
While implementing data storage policies that mandate where company files are to be stored is a popular data-protection measure, employees are not necessarily complying.
This is leaving organizations vulnerable to data loss, according to a survey.
Customer spending on new IP lines and desktop gear declined significantly last year in North America compared with 2007.
Much of the downturn during 2H08 can be attributed to fewer orders from three key verticals devastated by the recession: financial services, manufacturing and retail, according to research from T3i Group LLC.
International voice traffic continues to rise – despite the availability of an ever-broader range of substitutes for standard telephone calls.
Cross-border telephone traffic grew 14 per cent in 2007 and is estimated to have grown 12 per cent in 2008, to 384 billion minutes, according to data from TeleGeography.
FutureSource Consulting has produced an interesting chart that highlights the gulf between HDTV ownership and the penetration of Blu-ray disc players in Europe.
It shows that there are 69 million HD-ready TV sets but just 8 million Blu-ray players,including PS3 consoles – prompting the title: "61 million TVs starved of HD content".
App stores are offering marketers and advertisers a new way to reach mobile audiences, according to In-Stat.
The researchers forecast more than 100 million app store-compatible mobile phones from multiple manufacturers will be shipping within five years.
The increasing use of smartphones as the sole business phone will drive revenues from mobile enterprise users to USD $284 billion by 2014.
Yet while the "unwired enterprise" is becoming a reality, hurdles remain in persuading significant numbers of businesses to "go mobile", according to Juniper Research.
Skype has launched Skype for SIP, a beta program that allows companies to make domestic and international VoIP calls from an office PBX rather than PC.
The move comes the week after eBay announced that it expects Skype to more than double its revenue to over USD $1 billion by 2011 – with hopes high that the new business service will be a compelling proposition.
LaCie has announced that it is to merge with Caleido, the Swiss creator of online storage service Wuala.
The move signals the French external storage device manufacturer’s entry into the cloud storage service market.