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Siemens introduces iCitizen: The day in the life of the digital nomad
Siemens customers are no strangers to the innovation and ground-breaking technologies that the company invests to ensure a seamless life created effortlessly with the extraordinary features. Consumers only had to follow the trends and announcements at EuroCucina this year to…
Cryptocurrency-ATM launches in South Africa
Vendibit, a South African blockchain company, has announced the re-opening and rebranding of Africas very first “VTM”, a “cryptocurrency-ATM”, also called a BTM, upgraded with Vendibit blockchain technology. The machine originally launched in 2014 to offer Bitcoin purchases will be…
Google Chrome to remove the ‘Secure’ button
Google’s Chrome browser will see the removal of the “Secure” indicator in the web address bar as more websites adopt HTTPS. But users of the browser will see a flashing red “not secure” if the site is uncertified. Chrome users…
Africa Accelerated: How Digital transformation is accelerating growth on the continent
If there was ever a time to watch progress in Africa, it would be now. As we have seen so many times before, the continent has the ability to leapfrog technological trends and with the rapid scaling of digital technologies…
Vodacom will offer Microsoft Azure services in June
Vodacom, in partnership with Microsoft, has announced that it will be launching Microsoft Azure solutions – available to customers in June. According to Fatima Hassim, managing executive for Products and Services at Vodacom Business, Microsoft Azure enables developers and IT…
Consumers expect telecom service providers to match digital consumer experiences-Ericsson study
Ericsson Consumer & IndustryLab released its latest Insight Report which explores the future of customer interactions with mobile service providers. Smartphone users, today interact with operators across multiple touch points: from discovering offerings and signing up to services, to requesting…
Paratus Botswana now offers Quality Molex Cabling solutions
Paratus Botswana has launched a new initiative that is aimed at equipping employees with the skills needed to meet the challenges of the fast-evolving technological world. It has launched an intensive training course for staff to futureproof customers’ networking infrastructure.…
TelOne granted Video On Demand broadcasting license in Zimbabwe
TelOne, Zimbabwe’s state-owned fixed phone and internet operator, has secured a broadcasting licence for Video-on-Demand (VoD) services. The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) granted an operating license to TelOne to create a VoD. The agreement was announced by the regulator…
Investing in the game-changing technologies of tomorrow
Blue Label Ventures has committed to assisting security start-up iCrypto to drive its disruptive authentication and identity solution into the local and global markets. Security and identity management are one of the critical issues in today’s business environment, as the…
Creating a reliable climate model for South Africa
South Africa’s Center for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) hosts the largest and fastest computer in Africa, called Lengau. (“Lengau” means “Cheetah” in Setswana). And over the past year CHPC has increased Lengau’s core count by more than 33% — to more…
Kenya to host continental summit on cyber security
Kenya is set to host the first African Cyber Defense Summit in July this year, to develop strategies to respond to cybersecurity threats in the continent. Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru said the continental Summit would…
BT looks to Fibre First strategy, with $4.9 billion annual investment
The Group’s overall restructuring path of cost cutting is a means to drive sustainable long term growth and reverse the downward trend in earnings. This move follows BT’s announcement last year of a reduction of 4,000 roles in similar areas,…
Securing the utility’s most valuable resources
Managing crises when they hit is something that all utility companies have to deal with. Adverse weather, natural disaster or vandalism etc. can all wreak havoc. How a power company or utility responds and recovers is critical to their business…
MTN Nigeria pays customer over illegal call credit deductions
MTN Nigeria has paid a customer USD$1 390,00 Oluwole Aluko, in compliance with a Federal High Court judgment. Aluko, a legal practitioner, sued the telecommunications company in 2016, alleging unlawful deduction of his call credit. The judge, Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel, of…
Do you need a managed or broadband service?
When end-users consider options to contract for data and voice communication services, the industry sometimes complicates these discussions by using different terminology and abbreviations. Although the intent of all proposals is probably to explain the offer and its advantages, it…
Vodacom looking to expand its reach in Tanzania
Vodacom, already the only telecoms company listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, is negotiating with the Tanzanian government and other cellphone operators about possibly expanding the company. Vodacom Group’s President and CEO, Shameel Joosub explained that the telecom…
