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Vodacom Business launches Virtual CIO to support SMME’s
Vodacom Business has launched Virtual CIO, a service that provides a suite of IT support to SMMEs. The service offers monitoring, telephonic and onsite IT support to businesses which do not require full-time resources or are unable to afford these…
Tech is making us super human: where is your cape?
The future beckons… A world where the impossible becomes possible, where the imagined manifests. A world where we metamorphise into super humans. Where man and machine merge, transhumanism becomes a reality and our consciousness expands to immortal status. Will this…
Migrating to a digitised environment? Consider the security risk
The emergence of the digital world has caused a number of organisations to shift from analogue to digitised environments. Among the many complexities and challenges this transition gives rise to, new security considerations have also materialised. Businesses are needing to…
Cybercrime finds a way despite dark web shutdowns
The law enforcement operations that took down the AlphaBay and Hansa marketplaces were meant to strike a sizable blow to the online trade of illegal goods and services. Frequenters of these services might now think twice before placing their trust…
GIL Africa: How are companies using digital tech to gain the ultimate competitive edge?
A number of organisations are entering the race for “digital transformation”, striving to gain the ultimate competitive edge within their industry and against rivals. However, how many companies truly understand the fundamental importance of implementing these digital processes and applications…
Juni Yan named BT Vice-President for Security in AMEA
BT, providers of communications services and solutions, today announced the appointment of Juni Yan as vice-president for security in Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA). Juni will be in charge of all aspects of BT’s cybersecurity business in the region…
Digital transformation in Africa: Real change requires a fundamental shift
Global markets are being disrupted by an accelerating pace of technological change, and Africa is close behind. Digital transformation has entered an era of unprecedented change for enterprises, and real change requires a fundamental shift across processes, functions, customer…
The machines are coming: A rethink of Africa’s employment is needed
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will dramatically reshape the world of work and force us to rethink our approach to our careers, our lives, and our aspirations. With a global market estimated to reach $70 billion by 2020, machine learning is…
Incentive assertiveness – the future success of Gamification
The existence of games date back to ‘human ancient days’. They were used as a channel for social interaction, knowledge sharing, developing mental skills, entertainment as well as teaching spiritual and ethical lessons. Common game tools were made of bones,…
All women UCT team wins the annual GirlCode Hackathon
Four UCT Honours students are elated after winning the 4th annual GirlCode Hackathon – a 48-hour non-stop programming challenge in Johannesburg over the weekend. The four-woman team from the University of Cape Town’s Information Systems (IS) department, scooped the first…
Nigerian Government and Huawei partner on Smart Cities initiative
According to reports by the Nigerian Communications Week, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, speaking at a Smart Cities summit held in Abuja this week confirmed that the Federal Government would partner with Huawei, a global technology giant, in its smart…
How Citrix Fuels Red Bull Racing
Few businesses create a completely different product every couple of weeks, not to mention take their product team on the road and set up a completely new IT system on the fly. Yet, this is what the team at Red Bull Racing…
Gaming site takes bets on Buhari’s return to Nigeria
A popular Nigerian sports gaming site, NaijaBet.com, has opened betting on when the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, will return to his country. Buhari left Nigeria on May 7 on yet another medical trip to the UK, now NaijaBet.com is asking those interested to stake…
7 traits to look for in an SD-WAN provider
Software-defined Wide Area Networks (WAN) have certainly captured the attention of CIOs across nearly every industry, promising greater control over WAN infrastructure and the application traffic that’s traversing the network. Unlike legacy WAN architectures, software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) are designed to…
How to make meetings bearable for millennials
Think back to the last time you attended a meeting with millennials. Did they seem disengaged? Distracted by their devices? More interested in what was happening on the other side of the window? Could you not help but think back…
AI To Be In All Software By 2020- Gartner
Market analyst firm, Gartner, predicts that Artificial Intelligence will be a constant in every software by 2020. In January 2016 the firm stated that the term “artificial intelligence” was not in the top 100 search terms on gartner.com indicating that it was…
