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April 20, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Online & Social, Southern Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones finally announced the availability of the highly-anticipated Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 plus and the new Nokia 6 in South Africa. These new Android One Nokia smartphones were introduced at Mobile World Congress in February 2018 and will go on sale during April 2018 through Cell C, MTN and [&hellip...
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April 20, 2018 •
General, Southern Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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A research conducted by Citrix has revealed that 92% of businesses across South Africa’s key industry sectors agree that digital adoption has a direct impact on company profits. Despite such broad realisation, more than half of these businesses (54%)...
April 20, 2018 •
General, Opinion, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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South Africa’s value-added services market is currently a leader in terms of product innovation. The rapid pace at which technology is evolving is having a significant effect on how providers of assistance services are taking on the South African market....
April 20, 2018 •
Security, Southern Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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In the enterprise security world, data security has traditionally been viewed as an underdog. However, given the increasing number and sophistication of data breaches, explosion of sensitive data being exchanged across complex IT environments, data security...
April 19, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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Vodacom has just reached a new milestone. Despite “vanishing data” problems in recent times, the network service provider has just become the first African mobile network to exceed 80% population coverage on 4G. Vodacom now provides 80.12% 4G coverage in...
April 19, 2018 •
General, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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Technology and innovation in the workplace are equally important to employees and employers — for employees because it makes their jobs easier and for employers because it increases productivity, which in turn adds to the bottom-line. The recent Ricoh...
April 19, 2018 •
Internet of Things, Opinion, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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The digital revolution has well and truly been embraced by Namibia and Namibians. Apart from spending most of our time online on social media, we are now seeing a shift to real-world benefits enabled through connectivity. Whether it is simply paying for our...
April 19, 2018 •
Finance, Opinion, Southern Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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While all the research indicates that online commerce is set to grow in South Africa, the speed and extent of that growth will be dependent on several factors, with payment as one of the most crucial. Getting online payments right will play a role both in...
April 18, 2018 •
Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Danielle Kruger •
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Sophos, a network and endpoint security company, has announced the findings of its recent global survey which revealed that IT managers cannot identify 45 percent of their organisation’s network traffic. The survey titled The Dirty Secrets of Network...
April 18, 2018 •
Finance, Online & Social, Southern Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 First National Bank (FNB) announced the launch of eWallet eXtra, a mobile bank account that allows unbanked and underbanked South African consumers to use a feature phone or a smartphone to open a bank account without ever walking...
April 18, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Software, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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With the all latest developments, features and apps on our smartphones, storage appears to be a real problem for many smartphone users in South Africa. According to research from a countrywide independent consumer SanDisk, 22 percent of users running out of...
April 18, 2018 •
Big Data, Opinion, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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Businesses in Africa that process customer data from the European Union (EU) must ensure they are fully compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to become effective in May 2018. The GDPR is set to be the biggest change in EU data...
April 18, 2018 •
East Africa, Events, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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The second edition of the Africa Innovation Summit is soon approaching and is set to take place from 6-8 June 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda under the patronage of President Paul Kagame, Chairman of the African Union and Pedro Pires (ex-President of Cabo Verde). The...
April 18, 2018 •
Enterprise, Southern Africa, Startups, Top Stories •
Danielle Kruger •
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Giraffe, the automated high-volume recruitment start-up, announced that it has closed a second round of equity funding, led by Edge Growth’s Vumela Fund with participation from Omidyar Network, the Brozin family’s Forever Young Capital and Catapult Trust....
April 17, 2018 •
Events, Gadgets and Gaming, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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Students from Vega, an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE), are about to flex their mental muscles for a two-day ‘Game Jam’, set to take place at the school’s Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town campuses from 21 to 22...
April 17, 2018 •
Careers, Finance, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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Despite decades of progress towards achieving equality in the workplace, women remain significantly under-represented in emerging tech. The imbalance between men and women in the technology sector is unlikely to be remedied unless organisations, schools and...
