The journey from Cairo International Airport to the Smart Village Business Park outside is usually regarded as a nightmare. The 30 kilometre commute along the ring road around the city, takes more than three hours to complete in rush hour, while the drive through inner-Cairo presents some scary challenges. Drivers [...]

There’s nothing new about mobile phone subscribers being able to pay for goods and services from their mobile phones.  But the mobile payment experience is often far from ideal – representing a barrier to doing business with a merchant.  But with Direct Operator Billing things are about to change…meaning that [...]

From the living room to the boardroom, cutting-edge technology is reshaping almost every aspect of modern life. Mobile internet technology is making the world faster and better connected meaning the way we collaborate, shares stories and do business is undergoing a very rapid revolution. This year saw a tipping point [...]

At the recent “Managing Devices, Applications and Services” conference organised by the Device Management Forum in Maidenhead, U.K., a number of discussions and presentations addressed a wide range of aspects within M2M and the Internet of Things – such as standardisation, information provenance, consumer applications, e/m health and drivers behind [...]

Craig Richards, previously Director Asia Pacific, is to take on a new role at SLA Mobile – driving forward the company’s global engineering and operations function.  With the appointment of Jonathan Ng as Director responsible for APAC, Craig will become Director of Operations & Engineering.  He will continue to be based in Kuala [...]

Craig Richards of SLA Mobile argues why Alacrity plays a critical role in enabling the mobile future It’s clear that the mobile market is expanding and changing at a remarkable pace.   Increasingly, mobility is the driving force behind cloud computing.   Cloud-based resources – such as social media, media sharing, and [...]

Based in Kuala Lumpur, Jonathan Ng will lead sales, business development and marketing activities for SLA Mobile in Asia Pacific.  He has some fifteen years of senior business development experience in the telecommunications industry, covering all domains from fixed to mobile to enterprise business. Commenting on Jonathan’s appointment, Nic Stirk, [...]

SLA Mobile has been named as one of Ireland’s ‘Best Managed’ companies in the Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards Programme. In total, twenty companies which demonstrated superior business performance were recognised at a gala awards dinner in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin on 4th March 2011. The Deloitte Best Managed [...]

By Kevin Drayne This morning Vittorio Calao, Vodafone’s Group CEO, announced the company’s results for the first half of the fiscal year along with a strategy update that laid out their future plans. As anticipated by the financial markets, results exceeded expectations with revenue increasing 3.9% over the same period [...]

by Nic Stirk In the wireless industry talk about embedded/connected devices, and the associated M2M communications they require, is a hot topic of conversation. Estimates of the number of connected devices the world will see in the coming years is truly mind boggling, and are actually so large as to [...]