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The future won’t have stop signs
What earth dweller is unfamiliar with a stop sign? Its signature eight sides and fire engine red colour have been ingrained like golden arches onto our collective subconscious for the past century. Those four octagon-encased letters spell out a powerful…
New Pan-African Data Centre Association launched in Morocco
The Africa Data Centre Association (ADCA), a non-profit, Pan-African professional association, which will foster the development of the data centre industry in Africa, launched at BroadGroup’s inaugural Datacloud Africa Leadership Summit held in Marrakech, Morocco on 28 September 2018. During…
Data and tech to transform Nigerian retail market
The convergence of AI, tech, and data on Nigeria’s multi-billion dollar plus retail market – will be a strategic focus to local & international developers, investors and retailers at the 4th annual West Africa Property Investment Summit taking place on…
Woman Technical Programme opens new paths to employment
In 1956, 20,000 women marched on the Union Buildings. Sixty-two years later, South Africans both celebrate and honour this important milestone in the nation’s history, by recognising the essential part women play in creating powerful and healthy communities. While there…
Software AG a “Strong Performer” in IIoT
Software AG revealed its positioning as a “strong performer” with the highest current offering score among other strong performers in a 24-criteria evaluation of Cumulocity IoT (Internet of things) in The Forrester WaveTM: Industrial IoT Software Platforms, Q3 2018. In…
GE Healthcare, Society of Radiography in Kenya partner to enhance radiography training
GE Healthcare and the Society of Radiography in Kenya (SORK) announced a 2-year partnership to train a minimum of 140 radiographers on the latest medical imaging technologies and techniques. The partnership will build on efforts to achieve Universal Healthcare through…
Mimecast launches global citizenship program
Mimecast Limited recently announced the launch of its Global Citizenship program that aims to support charitable organisations that are building resilience in communities. Global Citizenship formalizes the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts and encourages all Mimecast employees to actively…
Commvault unveils new appliances aimed at scaling-out data management
Commvault, a recognised global backup, recovery, the cloud and data management company, recently announced two additions to its family of cloud-ready appliances – the Commvault HyperScale Appliance (model HS3300), an innovative scale-out infrastructure for managed service providers (MSPs) and large…
PayJoy, Baobab+ democratise mobile Internet for African countries
In an effort to expand access to high-quality solar home system solutions and smartphone technology to a billion people worldwide, Baobab+ is licensing PayJoy’s Checkout platform including its proprietary Lock technology. This will allow consumers to purchase a smartphone on…
Pundi X unveils blockchain-powered XPhone
On Wednesday, October 10 2018, Pundi X announced the development of a blockchain-based OS and communication protocol for mobile devices, allowing users to make calls, send messages and transmit data via a fully decentralized blockchain network. Powered by Function X, an…
Meeting the digital expectations of mobile customers in Africa
With multinational cloud service providers investing in South Africa and other infrastructure providers expanding data centre operations across Africa, the hyper-availability future is looking bright for the continent. This has resulted in an evolving environment focused on intelligent data management…
Aerobotics launches industry firsts at major precision agriculture event
Aerobotics launched five new innovations that have never been seen before in the agriculture industry. These innovations were designed with the farmer in mind to build on top of Aerobotics’ solutions that have been helping farmers with early pest and disease…
Data Management – are you seeing the real value?
The business value of data is unquestionable. The Economist went so far, last year, as to claim that data has overtaken oil as the world’s most valuable commodity. Despite controversy surrounding how to define the value of data, and whether…
The impact of video surveillance in healthcare
Last year, in a written reply to a question in the Legislature, Gauteng health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa revealed that 107 nurses had been attacked in hospitals between January 2016 and September 2017. According to the MEC many of the attacks…
Fitbit announces global availability of Charge 3
Fitbit, today announced the availability of Fitbit Charge 3 at select local retailers, for R2,999.00*. Charge 3, the latest evolution of the best-selling Charge family of devices, delivers a premium swim-proof design with a large touchscreen display, our most advanced…
NEC XON 2018 summit explores Industry 4.0 in Africa
The 7th annual NEC XON ICT summit took place at Sun City on 11 October 2018. This year, NEC XON looked at how the Fourth Industrial Revolution can serve Africa and overcome some of the continents socio-economic challenges. CEO of…
