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Ghana: NCA appoints new Deputy Director General
Ghana’s telecom regulator, the National Communications Authority (NCA) has announced the appointment of Olivia Okailey Quartey as its new Deputy Director General. Quartey is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon and Mountcrest College, a bilingual secretary with professional…
Google Chrome gets redesigned for its 10th birthday
Ten years after first launching, Google’s Chrome browser is getting a new look and features. The first version of Google Chrome was released on September 2nd, 2008, and in honour of its tenth birthday, this new UI is being rolled out…
Predicting the big data election race
With digital personalised targeting using machine-based learning posing big implications for politics and elections of the future, we take a look at how data miners are able to influence a voter’s behaviour. With the recent Zimbabwean election and well ahead…
Sneak Preview of the iPad Pro 12.9
There is just a little over a week to go until Apple’s official event where the brand will reveal its newest devices, and there has already been leaked videos of how the new iPad will look like. It’s expected to…
WorldRemit launches digital money transfers within Africa
Leading international money transfer company WorldRemit has launched a new digital service within Africa, making it easier to send and receive money across the continent. The new digital service will reduce the cost of sending money across borders. The prohibitive…
Signal Alliance and Microsoft launch Clouds Fast Track program in Nigeria
Signal Alliance (SA) and Microsoft have launched the FastTrack Partner Program in Nigeria. It is an exclusive group of partners across the globe approved by Microsoft to accelerate the migration of its platforms to the cloud. This is a customer…
Bitcoin: Mining for Answers
By now, most people know what Bitcoin, or cryptocurrency, is. Some have even bought and sold a few and more impressively, some have found out how to turn cryptocurrencies into a business. Then, there are the “miners”. Following a process…
Safaricom faces $4.47 million fine by telecom regulator
One of Kenya’s largest telecoms faces a fine of 0.2 percent of its gross revenue for the last financial year, equivalent to 449 million shillings ($4.47 million), official documents seen by Reuters on Monday, September 3, showed. The regulator, Communications…
Customer experience will drive SME success
The challenge of customer service in SMEs has never been greater as technology threatens to replace or overtake human interaction. While there is a strong case for the role of technology, Mike Anderson, Founder and CEO of the National Small…
Garmin Pay contactless payment feature is now live
Garmin Southern Africa is excited to announce the Garmin Pay contactless payment feature that is now live on a range of Pay-enabled Garmin watches in South Africa. The feature is currently available to Visa-enabled cardholders of First National Bank (FNB)…
redPanda Software urges retailers to prepare early for Black Friday
redPanda Software, an enterprise retail software development company, is urging retailers to prepare earlier for Black Friday, to scale their systems, leverage big data analytics and tools and capitalise on an exceptional customer experience. “Many local retailers under-estimated…
South African software distributor trumps global companies at IoT awards
Success on a global scale by South African IT organisations is a reminder of the remarkable strides of the South African IT industry. It also re-enforces that a committed team guided by a strong mission is a force to be…
Enterprising solutions for an insurance software provider
Although an enterprise app wasn’t on the cards for Acturis, an insurance software provider based in London, the BBD Acturis team knew that there was a way to develop an app that would meet their requirements while adding the value…
Interview: Gartner’s Mike Walker Identifies 5 Emerging Technology Trends
The 35 must-watch technologies represented on the Gartner Inc. Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2018 revealed five distinct emerging technology trends that will blur the lines between humans and machines. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) play a critical role in enabling companies…
The big misperception: Funding leads to business success
Supporting your start-up business through the challenging first year is certainly easier if you have access to funding In fact, the ‘The Hidden Factors: SA Women in Business’ research report, carried out by the Sage Foundation and Living Facts, found…
MainOne and Minkels announce expansion of West Africa’s full scale data centre
Connectivity and data centre solutions provider in West Africa, MainOne, and data centre supplier Minkels announced the second phase of the MDXi project. MainOne constructed West Africa’s largest Tier III+ Data centre company (MDXi) in 2015. MainOne has announced plans…
