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Commvault Appointed GTI Software & Networking as its Distributor for North Africa
Commvault, one of the recognised global enterprise leaders in intelligent data services across on-premises, cloud, and software as a service (SaaS) environments, has appointed GTI Software and Networking as its distributor for the 27 French-speaking countries in Africa. Based in…
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Shoprite is Offering Bursaries to South African IT Students
The Shoprite Group is offering bursaries for the 2023 academic year to high-performing students enrolled for degrees in Information Technology students. Other students who will benefit from the bursaries include Accounting, UI Design, Food Science students and more. Every year…
Huawei Partners with Ozow
Huawei has partnered with Ozow to enable users to make payments using their smart devices, without the need for a bank or credit card. Purchases can now be made using Ozow for Huawei Mobile Services, such as AppGallery, HUAWEI Video, HUAWEI…
Bolt Opens Africa Hub in Nairobi, Kenya
Bolt, the ride-hailing company, announced that it is opening a regional hub in Kenya that will serve as a host for top managers running operations in Africa. Before this development, the Uber rival did not have a hub in Africa.…
Nigeria’s Autochek Acquires CoinAfrique for Francophone Africa Expansion
The Lagos, Nigeria-based Autochek, an automotive technology company that seeks to make car ownership more accessible and affordable across Africa, has announced the acquisition of CoinAfrique, a leading platform for classified ads in French-speaking Africa, to accelerate the penetration of…
aYo Joins Forces with Clickatell to Launch WhatsApp Customer Channel
African insurtech aYo Holdings has launched a WhatsApp channel in its markets across Africa to make it easier for its customers to communicate with the company without the need for phone calls or in-person interactions. The new WhatsApp channel is…
Vodacom Business Deploys Technology to Connect Retailers to Suppliers
Vodacom South Africa’s business unit, Vodacom Business, says that it has plans to digitise the retail industry by connecting retailers to suppliers. It has started deploying Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) technology to retailers. “Meeting these customer needs requires a…
5G Adoption in Africa: Significant Equalising Opportunities Once Teething Issues are Sorted Out, says ProLabs
The positive adoption of 5G technology has tremendous potential to affect African communities and economies in a positive manner. 5G networks – if correctly taken up and rolled out – will offer African businesses and individuals the critical infrastructure to…
Kenya Prepares to Migrate from IPv4 to IPv6 in 2023
The Communications Authority of Kenya announced that the country it is preparing to move from Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in 2023. Internet Protocol (IP) is a set of rules for addressing and routing…
Solid8 Technologies Announced as Gold Sponsor for #PubliSec2022
Solid8 Technologies is a value-adding distributor bringing the best of global Cyber Security software vendors that solve important security challenges and increase cyber resilience across domains of data security, identity governance, network security, and threat intelligence. Join Solid8 at #PublicSec2022…
Eskom Strike: Unions Have Finally Accepted the 7% Wage Increase
The Eskom strike officially ended on Tuesday after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) accepted the 7% wage increase which was proposed by the utility after engaging in heated talks.…
Rumoured Apple Watch Series 8 Might Feature Body Temperature Sensor
Apple, the giant technology company, is rumoured to be releasing a bunch of new devices later this year including the Apple Watch Series 8, which will reportedly come with a body temperature sensor function. According to a report by Bloomberg‘s…
Is Game Starting to Bounce Back After a Dismal Few Years?
South African retailer, the Massmart-owned Game, says that it is starting to bounce back after a few years of slumping sales and a massive decrease in foot traffic brought about by a variety of factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic. In…
Google’s Equiano Subsea Cable Makes New African Landing
Google’s Equiano subsea internet cable, which seeks to connect Europe to Africa via the ocean, has made a new landing in Africa en route to its final destination of Cape Town, South Africa. According to an announcement made yesterday, the…
Has VPN Reached End of Life?
As organisations have moved increasingly into the cloud and remote working has become both a requirement and the norm, the traditional borders of the enterprise have shifted and become more amorphous. This means that securing networks and connections can become…
Nigerian Organisations Among Those Targeted by Worldwide Spy Hack
Experts at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky have brought to light a poorly detected backdoor program known as “SessionManager” that was set up as a malicious module within the Internet Information Services (IIS), a popular web server edited by Microsoft. Once…
