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Mobile technology proven to address challenges around healthcare
ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist HIV company, announced jointly with its global partners, Vodafone Foundation, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, ELMA Philanthropies and the United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the launch of the…
Huawei unveils P9 smartphone
Huawei Consumer Business Group has unveiled the company’s latest device, the P9 Smartphone. The latest device from Huawei has been created in partnership with Leica Camera AG and is, according to Huawei, the world’s first Leica dual-camera smartphone. Huawei also used the…
Orange completes acquisition of Liberian mobile operator Cellcom
Orange has revealed that it has completed the acquisition of 100% of Cellcom through its subsidiary Orange Côte d’Ivoire. Less than three months after signing the agreement with Cellcom Telecommunications Limited for the acquisition of its Liberian subsidiary, Orange has obtained…
Uber South Africa reveals reasons behind rate cuts
This past week Uber had recently revealed that, as of Thursday 07 April 2016, the company would be reducing rates on UberX in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban by up to 20%. While this does make the service more attractive to consumers, more…
South African Uber drivers angry over rate cut
Uber recently revealed that, as of Thursday 07 April 2016, the company will be reducing rates on UberX in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban by up to 20%. While this does make the service more attractive to consumers, more than 200 Uber…
Uber slashes rates on UberX in South Africa
As revealed by Uber, as of Thursday 07 April 2016, the company will be reducing rates on UberX in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban by up to 20%. This means that not only will riders pay less for their trips…
Taking a closer look at the Enterprise Network of the future
To keep pace with evolving customer needs, companies are adopting cloud, big data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobility to drive business efficiency and performance. However, as they move to these new IT models, many companies are challenged with…
WhatsApp implements full end-to-end encryption
WhatsApp has revealed, via a company blog post, that it has rolled out full end-to-end encryption across its messaging app. Essentially, this means that every call, message, photo, video, file and voice message sent over the app is encrypted by default,…
Mobile users in Africa view online comms methods as unsecure
Most Internet users consider online communication channels to be unreliable, but still use them regularly, including to discuss private topics. These were the findings of a joint survey by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. According to the joint research, users…
SA online retail to pass 1% of total retail in 2016
For the first time since the dawn of e-commerce in South Africa, online retail in this country will reach 1% of overall retail during 2016. This is the most significant finding of the Online Retail in South Africa 2016 report,…
Is Nigeria undermining its Digital Economy with bad policy decisions?
Nigeria’s government and economy has come under enormous pressure recently, due principally to the cratering of oil prices. Unfortunately, in its search for alternative sources of growth and revenue, Nigeria’s government has doubled down on misguided protectionist policies in the…
South Africa: LG G5 launch date and pricing revealed
As revealed by LG Electronics (LG) at a press conference held in Johannesburg, the company is expecting to launch its latest device – the LG G5 Modular Smartphone – from the 15th of April 2016 in South Africa. The latest…
Own disaster recovery at a business level or risk failing
Organisations need to move away from treating business continuity and disaster recovery as isolated IT conversations. Unless businesses ensure they also take people and processes into account when planning for disasters, they run the risk of not surviving them. This…
Applying new tech in the security sector is a way to cut costs
In South Africa security has become a necessity and is no longer a luxury. While an indispensable commodity, the security industry is still subject to the same challenges that every other industry is facing: growing economic pressures, rising costs, increased…
Orange invests in Africa Internet Group
Orange has announced the acquisition of a 75 million-euro equity interest in Africa Internet Group, joining AXA, Goldman Sachs and longstanding investors MTN Group, Millicom and Rocket Internet. Through this investment, which will be accompanied by a series of strategic partnerships…
Facebook to use Artificial Intelligence to Help Blind People ‘See’ Social Media
Every day, people share more than 2 billion photos across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. That’s a lot of photos! While visual content provides a fun and expressive way for people to communicate online, consuming and creating it poses challenges…
