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BYOD: The good, the bad and the just plain unsafe
Remember the good ol’ days? The days when you were judged on your work performance by the level of darkness outside when you stumbled in – and out – of work. Where your dedication to the job was assessed on one…
Africa, a continent seeing a digital boom
This is a reality. During the last few months, we have heard more about Africa’s issues in the media rather than its vast potential. However, the continent in general is silently moving forward with a genuine transformation. Africa is accelerating…
Tech organisations will radically transform in 5 to 7 years – Forrester
Increasingly empowered customers and business users, external services, new methodologies, automation, and cognitive technologies will result in a significantly smaller, faster and more specialised tech organisation. A new research report by Forrester, “The Future Tech Organization: Smaller, Faster and more…
New NCC inks partnership to protect Nigerian Telecoms
The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) announced on Tuesday that it would enter into a partnership with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and other security agencies in an attempt to curtail the vandalisation of telecom installations, facilities and infrastructure. This is…
Price Fixing Scandal Sees DSTV Fined R180 million
MultiChoice’s advertising sales business, DStv Media Sales, has been fined of R180m ($14 Million) by the Competition Tribunal for price fixing and manipulating trading conditions in contravention of the Competition Act. Multichoice and the Competition Tribunal reached an agreement to pay…
Africa Day Celebrated on Twitter
Thursday the 25th of May marks the continent wide day of celebration known as Africa Day. Africa Day is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now known as the African Union, which happened…
JUMO Selected for Google Launchpad Accelerator
JUMO announced today that they were accepted into Class 4 of the Google Launchpad Accelerator. The Launchpad Accelerator targets growth-stage companies and invites them to their headquarters in Mountain View for work-shops and networking with the Silicon Valley eco-system. It…
Manchester Arena Bombing- Twitter Reacts
As thousands of people packed into the Manchester Arena last night for the Ariana Grande concert, no one could imagine what would happen by the end of the evening. At around 10:30 local time in Manchester, just after the US…
And the winner of the MTN Upstream competition is…
MTN in partnership with Upstream, awarded 12 lucky customers with mouth-watering prizes that ranged from a R400 000 cash prize, R1 million cash prizes, 4 x Mercedes Benz GLC, 4 x BMW X5 and a grand prize of a house…
Office workers prefer mobile over desk phones
In a recent report by Westcon-Comstor vendor partner, Avaya, workers are calling time out on “dumb phones” urging employers to allow them to make use of mobile devices. The report, conducted by research company YouGov on behalf of Avaya, surveyed…
Is Content Really King?
Recently I was thinking of the increase in adoption OTT players have gained and the consequent dilemma it’s wrapping around operators who now have to grapple with the concern of who owns and influences the consumer. This also got me…
Nigerian startup to power major international streaming music platform
Big Machine Label Group (BMLG) announced yesterday that Nigerian founded startup, PublicVine, will be the technology provider powering BMLG’s branded streaming media platform, Big Machine TV–the first label-operated streaming media platform is paving the way for a shift in…
Westcon-Comstor Completes Business Process Improvement Programme to Sharpen Customer Focus
Westcon-Comstor, the leading value-added global distributor of security, unified communications, network infrastructure and data centre solutions, has announced it has completed a global shared services and business process outsourcing (BPO) programme that will bring significant efficiencies, and delivers consistent and…
Ethiopia gets eCentre data centres
Modular data centre manufacturing company, Flexenclosure together with ERP Software Technologies (ERPST) will deploy two data centres in Ethiopia. The eCentres will house servers and software to manage and run Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) activities as they expand their rail…
Africa needs Digital Transformation
Over the past decade, Africa has achieved an economic growth rate of over 5 percent, according to the World Economic Forum. However, consistent growth rates have not yet impacted large parts of the African population. Many African people continue to…
Facebook selects MEA finalists for Messenger Developer Challenge
Facebook has selected the 60 finalists for the Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. The finalists were selected from hundreds of entries which came in from across the Middle East and Africa. The Bots for Messenger Challenge is a contest to…
