Cybercrime has entered the mainstream of our culture to an unprecedented extent and it is here to stay, with the scale of threats today becoming more and more difficult to quantify. Against this background, organisations need to know as much as possible about...
African music streaming service, Boomplay announced on Monday, 18 November 2019, that it’s teaming up with Sony Music Entertainment (SME) to expand its reach within Africa. The service, which already has over 60 million users with an impressive...
African telecoms operator, AirtelTigo announced this week that it has appointed Murthy Chaganti as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Before this role, Chaganti was the company’s COO. According to AirtelTigo, he has played a key role in...
‘Everyone prepares for battle in their way’, says Janet Morris, American fiction and non-fiction author, best known for her fantasy and science fiction as well as her production of a non-lethal weapons concept for the US military, and generally people are...
Africa Data Centres (ADC), the largest network of interconnected, vendor- and carrier-neutral data centres on the continent has extended its partnership with China Telecom Global (CTG), one of the world’s largest providers of integrated...
Pan-African telecoms company, Liquid Telecom has launched the fastest direct land-based fibre link connecting East to West Africa. This coast-to-coast digital corridor follows the completion of Liquid Telecom’s new high-capacity fibre link running...
You could be forgiven for believing ransomware has already peaked. After all, few organisations in South Africa have experienced it on various levels since 2017’s WannaCry attack. Yet ransomware is hardly a spent force. If anything it’s become normalised....
Huawei Cloud released Kunpeng ECS (Elastic Cloud Server) cloud services and Partner Program 2.0 on Wednesday, 13 November 2019. The Kunpeng-powered cloud services will be made available to African customers by the end of December 2019 and aim to offer 15%...
In a world ruled by data, it is frightening to think how few people take protecting their information seriously. While it has become easy to share everything from your email address and mobile number to more sensitive things such as your ID number and other...
Technology is all about innovation and the key mandate for manufacturers is to make products that simplify and enhance people’s lives. For technology to truly improve the experience of users, it’s also vital that the talent in technology companies is...
African telecommunications operator, Africell announced the launch of their first 3G smart feature phone, Afriphone, powered by KaiOS. The new device which was released on Tuesday, 12 November 2019, will be the first KaiOS-powered device in Gambia and Sierra...
South African mobile operator MTN, together with Huawei have launched their C-band 5G trial on Tuesday, 12 November 2019, as part of the operator’s network evolution plan towards 5G. C-band, the so-called ‘golden band’ for 5G spectrum, is said to be a...
Facebook announced on Tuesday, 12 November 2019, that it’s partnering with RiseUp to bring ‘Boost with Facebook’, its global program designed to help small businesses grow and to equip more people with the digital skills, to Egypt. Inaugurated by HE...
Nokia announced earlier this week that Spectranet, a Nigerian Internet service provider, will bring high-speed access to customers in Lagos and Abuja by deploying its GPON solution as part of an extensive Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) rollout. The solution aims to...
Oil has reigned for centuries as one of society’s most valuable resources. Throughout history, those who have controlled oil, have controlled the economy. However, in the data economy of today, data itself – due to the insight and knowledge that can...
Parallel Wireless, the leading U.S.-based OpenRAN company delivering the world’s only software-defined end-to-end OpenRAN solution for coverage and capacity, today announced that MTN, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, is set to...
