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Overcome load shedding this Festive Season with these top tips
The festive season has officially begun; however, it looks as though South Africans will be celebrating the holidays without electricity, at certain times of the day and night, as South African power utility Eskom has implemented load shedding. As load…
Nigerian Communications Commission suspends frequency spectrum allocation
The Nigerian Communications Commission has suspended the allocation of frequency spectrum likely to be approved by the International Telecommunications Union for 5G services. NCC had planned to offer frequencies in three different bands ahead of the 5G roll-out in 2020.…
Load-shedding expected for large parts of South Africa
#PowerAlert : #Eskom will implement stage 2 #loadshedding today from 09:00 to 22:00 due to a shortage of capacity. We apologise for the inconvenience. @CityPowerJhb @City_Ekurhuleni @CityofCT @CityofJoburgZA @eThekwiniM @CityTshwane @TrafficSA — Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) December 6, 2018…
Rwanda signs nuclear deal with Russia
Russia and Rwanda have signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. It was signed on Wednesday, 5 October 2018 in Moscow by Alexey Likhachov, director general of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom,…
WATCH: Intel launches AI-powered wheelchair controlled by facial movements
On Monday, November 3 we celebrated International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In part of the celebration, technology company Intel revealed the Wheelie 7 kit, technology that allows motorized wheelchairs to be driven with facial expressions. In collaboration with HOOBOX…
Skills development is key to Industry 4.0
The Fourth industrial revolution has the potential to disrupt every industry in every country through large-scale automation, adoption of emergent technologies, big data and artificial intelligence. According to Chief Director of Future Production Technologies at the Department of Trade and Industry…
South African smaller merchants are cashing in online
Despite the lackluster macro-economic indicators, South African tenacity showed itself once again as retailers – especially smaller stores – cashed in on the online space over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend says Payment Service Provider, DPO PayGate. The…
Watch: Lenovo SA’s Country Manager discusses the company’s future plans
Jim Holland is the Country Manager for Data Center Group, Lenovo South Africa and the SADC Region. He is responsible for improving Lenovo’s channel coverage and focus. Positioning Lenovo Data Center Group’s solutions to the channel partners, distributors and end…
61 percent of consumers say social media sites pose greatest risk for exposing data
A majority of consumers are willing to walk away from businesses entirely if they suffer a data breach, with retailers most at risk, according to the research from Gemalto. Surveying 10,500 consumers globally, Gemalto found that, across all ages, 93%…
Huawei’s CFO arrested in Canada
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer and daughter of Huawei founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, has been arrested in Vancouver at the request of US law enforcement on suspicion of allegedly violating U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. According to Canada’s…
South Africa gets digital asset trading platform
VALR, a digital asset platform has announced plans to launch a new digital asset trading platform in South Africa, leveraging Bittrex’s technology, to offer customers a trading option. Registrations to be part of a limited-access launch open on Thursday, 06…
Festive fraud: this time it’s personal
It’s a few weeks before Christmas. You want to surprise a family member with a new laptop, but you can’t decide which one. To find the right brand, you innocently reach out to your social media community to crowd-source some…
Painting a brighter future with AkzoNobel
What if paint could clean the air; withstand extreme heat; reduce drag and fuel consumption; cope with conditions on Mars. AkzoNobel products already do this – now the plan is to go even further. That’s why the company is ready…
AirPods with wireless charging case expected to roll out in 2019
Apple’s popular wireless earphones “AirPods” are expected to launch with wireless charging support in the first quarter of 2019 and an upgraded design is set to roll out in 2020, says KGI securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to Kuo, the…
Biometrics has a keen stake in the war on identity fraud
Identity fraud remains one of the most prominent cybercrime threats of modern society today. Global research notes that on average businesses loose over US$ 200 billion every year – while consumers loose more than US$ 16 billion due to identity…
BankservAfrica reveals Black Friday card sales
According to BankservAfrica, Debit and credit card transactions reached 4.8 million during this year’s Black Friday. This represents a 4% year-on-year growth on 2017’s 4.7 million. BankservAfrica’s figures, which covers all in-store card transactions (excluding ATM) by BankservAfrica between 00:00…
