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Nigeria: Samsung Offices Raided
According to a report by Nigerian Communications Week, on Tuesday the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) raided and sealed the premises of Samsung West Africa in Victoria Island, Lagos, for failure to register some of its products on the market…
AI and Analytics accelerate the pace of digital workplace transformation
Gaining a competitive advantage and improving business process should be among the top goals of any organisation’s digital transformation strategy, this is according to Dimension Data’s Digital Workplace Report: Transforming Your Business published today. The report found that digital transformation is…
SEACOM extends fibre network reach in SA
SEACOM is bringing high-speed fibre Internet access services to business and home users in the southern areas of Johannesburg, starting with the rollout of 8 kilometres of fibre in Meyersdal, Alberton. The last-mile fibre network will pass several businesses, residential…
How to keep Western Cape’s water flowing with data analytics
On 22 May, the Western Cape was declared a disaster area as an ongoing drought saw dam levels drop below 10%. This prompted government to implement level stringent water restrictions amid warnings that the drought could continue well into 2018.…
Netflix Hits 104 Million Worldwide Subscribers
On Monday, Video-on-demand service, Netflix, released their second quarter 2017 financial results. The results reveal that the company has surpassed the 100 million subscriber mark, with world wide subscriptions growing from 99 million to 104 million. Netflix who were anticipating a…
Africa Celebrates World Emoji Day
Monday, 17th of July, is World Emoji Day. The worldwide celebration for the “little people inside our phones” started in 2014 and was founded by Jeremy Burge, a member of Unicode, an emoji standardisation organisation. This year World Emoji…
South Africa is Not Digitally Competitive
South Africa’s poor ranking of 47th out of 63 countries in the latest IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking was a direct result of an ineffective education system that neglected maths and science. Pierre le Roux, CEO of Moyo Business Advisory…
Driving customer choice with open access networks
Creating competition in the buoyant Internet service provider (ISP) space plays a crucial role in driving customer choice. Consumers can go anywhere to get their home or business connected, but the costs are still very much dependent on whether their…
How CIOs can disrupt their companies
Most sectors are facing disruption as a result of new technologies and digitalisation. In a new report, Forrester examines how leaders can take a blue-sky approach to digital innovation in order to re-invent their businesses. “Your customers’ expectations are not…
Gartner- SA IT Spend To Increase by R226 billion in 2017
According to Gartner, the South African IT market is likely to see an increase in total spend in 2017. This increase is expected to be at around R226 billion($17 billion), which is a 2.4 per cent increase from 2016, with…
Bytes People Solutions wins Huawei Award
Bytes People Solutions, a provider of skills development, talent management and business process outsourcing services, has recently been awarded “Best Service Partner 2016” by Huawei. The award was in recognition of Bytes People Solutions obtaining the best results from all suppliers…
Nine priorities to get you on the road to digital transformation
According to a recent survey by E-consultancy, customer experience will overtake price and product specifications as the key brand differentiator by 2020. Add to this the fact that customers are more digital than ever, demanding an omni-channel interaction model with…
Machine Learning comes to Tour de France
Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), organisers of the Tour de France, and Dimension Data, the Official Technology Partner of the Tour de France, announced the introduction of machine learning technologies at this year’s Tour de France to give cycling fans across…
Will artificial intelligence replace our jobs?
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are about to revolutionise society in ways we cannot yet imagine. Many will welcome the possibilities brought about by the technological shake-up, but there is also growing uncertainty about the long-term…
IT News Africa’s Abe Wakama joins TT100 Awards Panel
Abe Wakama, CEO of African Innovator Group and publisher of African Innovator Magazine and ITNewsAfrica.com, has been selected to join the Technology Top 100 awards judging panel for 2017. The awards, which will take place at the Johannesburg Country Club on the 15th of…
SAP Suspends SA Staff, begin Gupta Kickback Investigation
SAP’s international office has initiated an independent investigation into contracts awarded by SAP South Africa. In a statement released yesterday, the software giant announced that its South African management team has been placed on administrative leave pending the findings of the investigation. The…
