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Sony Mobile announces partnership with Takealot.com
Sony Mobile Communications and Takealot.com, South African online store, have announced a partnership that enables customers to purchase preferred Sony Mobile Xperia smartphone plus select original or Made for Xperia accessories through Takealot. Sony Mobile users will receive their device/s…
The cloud is nice, but local is “lekker”
Companies are buckling under the strain of ever-burgeoning enterprise data volumes. Cloud based storage trumps traditional storage infrastructure because it enables companies to accommodate expanding data volumes without buying new servers, scrounging for rack space in the server room or…
Global WAF report underscores F5 as key player in web application firewall security
F5’s position as a dominant player in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) market has been underscored by its participation in ‘Global Web Application Firewall Market Research Report 2017 to 2022’, which presents an in-depth assessment of the WAF market including…
Deputy Minister Magwanishe to launch a First Black Industrialist`s Brand
The company progressively grew and gained experience to the point of creating its own brand Cloud Nine which is currently sold in various South African supermarkets The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Bulelani Magwanishe will launch a multi-million-rand…
LG’s latest smartphone designed to be a ‘brighter,’ smarter device
LG has just launched its latest flagship, the G7 ThinQ, with functions that promise brighter photography and enhanced AI. The LG G7 ThinQ is bigger than its predecessor, featuring a larger screen of 6.1-inches, with a super-wide 19.5:9 aspect and…
Why AI looks set to take smartphone photography to the next level
AI has been making its presence felt in almost every arena of our lives and is now also taking the lead role in our smartphone cameras. While our previous demands of our mobile cameras focused mainly on the number of…
‘Most Wanted’ malware and vulnerabilities revealed
Check Point Software Technologies has published its latest Global Threat Index for the month of March, revealing a surge of cryptomining malware attacks, both globally and in South Africa. An endpoint cryptomining malware known as the XMRig variant has been…
Parrot helps ICT start-ups all over Africa
Agriculture is a key, fast-growing industry in Africa – and Parrot, the European drone group, is offering business solutions, covering drones and software, to professionals in this business sector. Parrot-AIRINOV teamed up with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural…
Top 10 fastest growing economies in Africa 2018
Africa’s economy is projected to continue to rise to 3.2 percent in 2018 and to a further 3.5 in 2019, this is according to the latest World Bank report released early 2018. According to the report, non-resource intensive countries are…
Why banks are using satellite services
Satellite connectivity is commonly considered the last mile solution only for areas where there is little or no coverage of other networks such as fibre or 3G. However, its high reliability and ubiquitous coverage have resulted in the banking sector…
New Kaspersky Password Manager now available
Kaspersky Lab has introduced the new generation of its freemium solution Kaspersky Password Manager. Now, the solution not only stores login/password pairs but also payment data – which gets an extra layer of protection when entered automatically on sites –…
Trust & compliance: customer relationship challenges for financial services providers
When the General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect on May 25th, financial services firms will face a new potential threat to their on-going challenges with building strong customer relationships. The regulation – dubbed GDPR for short – is aimed…
Industry 4.0 in the Logistics Industry
Recently, Trackmatic CEO David Slotow spoke at the 7th Annual Eurasian Supply Chain Congress. Supply chain executives gathered from several diverse industries to listen to a broad range of topics, all with a common theme: How do we improve the…
Italian StreetLib and Nigerian Publiseer partner to distribute more African literature
Publiseer, a Nigerian digital book publishing platform, and StreetLib, an Italian ebook aggregator, has concluded a partnership that will see more African literature and non-fiction books published and distributed across more global book platforms worldwide. Both companies, which are…
Facebook is launching a new dating feature
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday the world’s largest social network will soon include a new dating feature – while vowing to make privacy protection its top priority in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook will launch a…
How the IoT enables frictionless, automatic services
For the past couple of years, we’ve been hearing about the wondrous possibilities of the Internet of Things (IoT): vast networks of sensors and connected devices that stream information to us and help us to better control the world around…
