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Mobile is no longer inferior to Wifi, study reveals
5G will accelerate the advantage of mobile technology because of the pace of mobile innovation and the dependency of Wifi network experiences on the quality of fixed network broadband deployments which are slow and expensive to upgrade with fibre to…
Smartcall invests R10 mln into SA gaming and esports industry
Prepaid cellular services and products provider, Smartcall, has announced a R10 million investment into Mettlestate in a bid to drive growth within the South African gaming and esports industry. This investment, one of the biggest into SA gaming and esports…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Review
Developed by Treyarch and published by Activision, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is officially out on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. This year’s Call of Duty title is not the norm that we get to experience every year… not only is…
Microsoft launches phone usage tracker
Microsoft is bringing a new location tracking feature to its Android launcher app. Microsoft recently launched the beta version of Launcher 5.1 which features a phone usage tracker. As smartphones are further being integrated into nearly every aspect of our…
Nigeria: Smile offers customers all-in-one SIM
Smile Nigeria has introduced the All-in-One SIM offer, providing free voice and video calls and what it claims are the best rates to call any local operator, alongside an affordable data plan. To enjoy these benefits, new customers need to…
Don’t forget about physical security in the digital age of banking
Where there is money, there is a motive for theft and banks will never be the exception to this rule. Although banking is steadily becoming more digitised, there is still a need for cash, which means that physical security cannot…
Over 500,000 Android users accidentally downloaded malware
When it comes to the security of our personal devices, phones drop down to the bottom of the list almost every time. We’re far too trusting of app developers and stores like Google Play to even consider that there might…
AfricaCom 2018 shows us that technology really is the key to African growth
As Green, we were privileged to be the only Namibian ICT-company to be an exhibitor at AfricaCom 2018, just as we had been last year. We shared the booth with Submer whose Submer Smartpod is a green (environmentally green) solution…
Rwanda gets first centralised telephone booking system for taxis
Yego Innovision has officially launched Yego 9191, Rwanda’s – according to the firm – first centralised booking system for Car and Motorcycle Taxis. As revealed by the company, Yego 9191 has been developed with the support and approval of Rwanda’s…
East Africa to integrate ICT sector to attract foreign investment
Officials from Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) has plans to harmonize the information communication technology (ICT) sector in order to attract more foreign direct investments (FDI) into the region. Francis Wangusi, director general of Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) told…
Managing the impact of the global digital component shortage
Technological development inevitably brings with it unexpected consequences, and the advent of the fourth industrial revolution is no exception. Fuelled by rapidly increasing demand for technologies such as smartphones, new generation vehicles and advanced defence hardware, as well as by…
Discussing the General Data Protection Regulation in Africa
In May this year, the European Commission’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. The GDPR is a new data privacy and protection framework aimed at improving Europe’s data privacy laws, and which could be described as a…
IT News Africa: Top Stories of the Week
This week was yet again filled with tech news stories that grabbed the headlines both across Africa and around the world. This week was dominated by Black Friday. The sales frenzy, which kicked off on Friday 23 November 2017, grabbed…
The WeChat hotel experience of the future
WeChat recently partnered with InterContinental to open a smart hotel in Shanghai. What makes this hotel “smart” is that users can book rooms, check-in remotely, and use their phones as key cards – all on the WeChat app and without…
Google’s Duplex AI starts rolling out to Pixel phones
In May 2018, at the Google I/O developer conference Google announced the Google Duplex – a new technology feature behind, Google’s assistant. Ever since, users have been anticipating the roll out of the Google Duplex-powered calls. As Google already outlined…
The rise of the millennial workforce has driven the evolution of tech
With the war for eyeballs, attention spans and airtime ongoing, the media has taken to broadly denouncing this group in clickbait articles; generous with accusations yet economical on facts. Millennials are scathingly labelled as flaky, cellphone-obsessed navel-gazers; unwilling to pay…
