Liquid Telecom has revealed the launch of its Fibre To The Home (FTTH) service. According to the company, the FTTH Service is expected to provide speeds of up to 100Mbps within Zambia.
According to the telco, the FTTH service will provide Zambians with real internet that will enable businesses to...
FNB, one of the largest banks in South Africa, estimates that it takes an average of 5 days for a middle-income consumer to spend up to 80% of their monthly salary. This suggests that the average middle-income consumer, earning between R180,000 ($11,194.94) – R500,000 ($31,090.75) per annum, survives on...
In the recent Price Waterhouse Coopers’ Global State of Information Security Survey 2016, 41.44% of companies in South Africa and the Middle East reported that they had detected 50 or more cybersecurity incidents in the past 12 months.
This was in comparison to the global total of 31.59%. A further...
On Wednesday 1 November 2017, Value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited, announced its distribution agreement with SevOne, a leading provider of digital infrastructure management solutions, for the Sub-Saharan region.
The world’s largest cloud services providers (CSPs), managed services providers (MSPs) and enterprises are evolving from physical infrastructures to software-defined and automated cloud-centric...
There is no doubt that data management and preservation are critically important to business. However, there may be misconceptions when it comes to the process around the differences between backup, archiving and records management.
While all three are important, depending on the size of the organisation, they are not the...
Despite the number of reported incidents around the world related to battery cell issues in the new Galaxy Note7, Samsung SA has reported that South African customers will receive a Galaxy Note7 that offers full battery usage.
Globally, in markets which the device was available, Samsung immediately stopped the sale...
iHouzit is a South African startup founded in 2016 that offers tailored solutions by providing a platform where customers are able to plan, design, finance, insure, build, furnish, decorate and maintain properties.
iHouzit launched its first minimum viable product, www.iHouzit.com, on 7 March 2019.
In a bid to address the disconnect...
MTN has introduced a new range of 'town-specific' data-bundles that aim to give prepaid customers data that will suit their needs and budgets.
“At MTN we are committed to offering our customers increasingly personalised, and relevant, products and services. We understand that everyone is different, with vastly different circumstances, particularly...
On Wednesday, 27 February 2019, Aerobotics announced that it expanded its Series funding round from $2 million to $4 million. The funding round expansion came through a signed deal with Paper Plane Ventures and brings Aerobotics total funding to $4.6 million. The funding round expansion and three other announcements...
When futurists and technologists talk of ubiquitous computing, many paint a utopian picture of always-on connectivity from anywhere, on any device. The possibilities when this idealistic technological capability eventually becomes reality are seemingly limitless, but before the everywhere, everything network is able to live up to the hype there...
A team of students and lecturers from South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is developing new technology at the Optical Communications Laboratory (OC Lab) in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. The team hopes the new low-cost innovation can bridge the peri-urban digital divide in South Africa.
The tech has...
MTN South Africa has introduced several voice and data offerings in recent months as testament to its commitment of providing consumers across market segments with solutions tailored to their needs and budgetary requirements.
MTN has adjusted its MTN Pay Per Second price plan base data rate from R2 per megabyte...
eThekwini based NPO CodeMakers has made it possible for isiZulu speakers to learn how to code for free with Scratch software used by millions around the world.
Scratch 3.0 launched on January 2, 2019, translated into 48 languages. Only isiZulu and Amharic are indigenous African languages. Other languages include Mandarin,...
Philips TV has added a new distribution partner, FondiVersal Technology, to handle its sales and distribution throughout Africa. The distribution deal was completed through Philips' Singapore affiliate, TP Vision Singapore.
According to Phillips, FondiVersal will provide sales and distribution support to TP Vision, and expand the reach of the Philips...
TA Telecom has revealed that the beta trials for Nafsi, Africa’s most ambitious big data analysis project according to the company, is now underway in Egypt, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. The survey aims to use mobile technology to collect data from individual countries and map the personalities of...
Widely touted as an organisation’s biggest asset, data is on the minds of a lot of companies. It’s being hailed as the secret to customer satisfaction, sales and marketing efforts, and a bird’s eye view of an organisation’s customer base.
However, too many companies are relying on dirty data, which...
