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Clickatell named best SMS provider in Africa
Global SMS Messaging Gateway company, Clickatell has over the last 12 months, delivered almost 3 billion messages across the African continent, achieving a 42% year-on-year growth – far ahead of the 4% projected CAGR growth for the overall A2P global…
Wireless connectivity has a lot to offer in Africa
While Africa is seeing an increase in demand for connectivity in order to bridge the ever-present digital divide between urban and rural areas, the bottlenecks experienced when backhauling data streams by service providers of all types is still a major…
1.3 million Africans taught coding during African Code Week 2017
On Tuesday, 5 December 2017, SAP revealed that its Africa Code Week programme saw 1.3 million youths across 35 countries learn basic coding skills. The project had a target of training half a million African youth between 18 and 25…
ICT Skills Survey reveals South Africa’s shortcomings
On Tuesday 5 December 2017, Wits University’s Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) released its 2017 JCSE ICT Skills Survey. According to the orgaisation, economic pressure, a delay in policy implementation and lack of improvement in South Africa’s basic education…
AR helps retailers re-imagine the entire shopping journey
Despite the speculation about the rise of the machine and the threat to jobs at best, and to humankind at worst, technology will not spell the end for bricks and mortar retail stores any time soon. However, the way customers…
GDPR and PoPI – Do I really need to comply with both?
Ahead of the pending enforcement of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislations, organisations are hurriedly carrying out compliancy strategies and tightening up their data security processes. While this is undoubtedly a good thing,…
Centrify announces Zero Trust approach to security
Centrify has announced its Zero Trust approach to security. Zero Trust assumes that everything—users, endpoints, resources—is untrusted and must always be verified to decrease the chance of a major breach. Customers are adapting to the reality that older, network-centric approaches…
How companies can address failed ERP implementations
It’s becoming increasingly clear that forklift upgrades to enterprise resource planning (ERP) suites can take years and a small fortune to complete – and then they rarely work as planned. To rub salt in the wounds, their very failure is…
Collaboration: The driving force behind IT success
Collaboration is the act of working together. It is the coming together of ideas and strategies to create a better final product, and ensure the advancement of a group, a business or an industry. In the Information Communication Technology (ICT)…
IT News Africa: Top Stories Of The Week
This week was yet again filled with tech news stories that grabbed the headlines both across Africa and around the world. The big news grabbing headlines worldwide was the rise in the price of Bitcoin, which surpassed the $10 000…
Google Launchpad accelerator selects African startups
Google has announced the startups from Nigeria and South Africa, which have been selected to take part in the fifth class of the Google Launchpad accelerator, a six-month, equity-free mentorship programme. Google, who announced in February 2017 that it was bringing the…
Youtube Go to launch in South Africa
On Thursday 30 November 2017, Google revealed that Youtube Go will soon be launched in South Africa. The beta version of the app was launched in India earlier this year, while there was no exact date given for the South…
Automation – Creating the worker of tomorrow
Job Simulator is a virtual reality game set in the future, where machines have replaced all human jobs. In this game, players can relive the “glory days” when people did regular work, such as being a chef, or working a…
To build a better customer experience, start with the architecture
Most brands are looking at the customer experience as the most powerful way they have to set themselves apart in a market where it’s becoming increasingly difficult to compete on price and product features alone. They’re ramping up investment in…
HDMI 2.1 is here and it supports 10K resolution
On Tuesday 28 November 2017, the HDMI Forum finally released the new HDMI specification, HDMI 2.1, to all vendors who have already adopted HDMI 2.0, according to a report from Neowin. The specification, which was originally unveiled back in January…
Banks that are not ready for digital disruption will struggle
The banking industry continues to experience disruption – by new players, new opportunities and new risks – influenced by a number of forces including Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Although some financial institutions such as Citi are using their APIs to…
