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Huawei P9: Ground Breaking Dual Lens, A Historic Pairing
Huawei Technologies, a leading mobile manufacturer, have unveiled the much anticipated P9, the world’s first co-engineered Leica dual-camera smartphone, to its South African consumers. The P9’s ground-breaking dual-camera, subject to the industry’s most stringent quality screening requirements, specialises in capturing…
Resolve Solution Partners & SJS Energy partner for a new era in energy
In an effort to capitalise on the significant opportunities that exist in the fuel industry, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, Resolve Solution Partners (an Imperial company) has partnered with SJS Energy to form a new business unit called Resolve Energy Solutions.…
The age of the app: How small business owners can earn time
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) provide enormous value to South Africa’s economic growth and development. Their financial contribution to GDP (estimated at 52%) and job creation is crucial to help overcome the country’s staggering unemployment rate of 26.7%. Macro benefits…
Fighting back with technology to combat fraudsters
Technological advances provide more powerful tools in strengthening companies’ defences against fraud, as well as a means for the fraudster to find areas of vulnerability to penetrate. As much as technology helps the company combatting fraud, the fraudster also capitalises…
How African banks are losing their hold on the payment space
Traditional banks are poised to lose as much as 50% of their ownership of the payment space by the end of 2016. Their hold on the space began plummeting in 2014 from 100% to 75%, and will continue to fall…
What are the “things” in the Internet of Things?
User-based devices that communicate, consume content, and create and publish content for other people to utilise have dominated our current version of the Internet. The developing Internet of Things (IoT) is about to change that. While it will include the…
Mafia III – The Heist – Official Gamescom 2016 Trailer
2K and Hangar 13 have released the Mafia III – The Heist – Official Gamescom 2016 Trailer. The Mafia took so much from so many in its rise to power in New Bordeaux. When Lincoln Clay came back from Vietnam,…
Africa’s youth need to become techpreneurs
Africa’s youth need to move from being technologists to techpreneurs, fintechonlogist to fintechpreneurs, thereby releasing the true value of Africa’s communities, businesses and people. This was the message from Khonology to more than 3000 youths who attended The Standard Bank…
African Fintech innovation is about improving client access rather than experience
Logistics and infrastructure challenges, together with high business start-up costs, have in the past prevented many financial institutions from establishing themselves in developing markets. Thanks to technology and mobile phones, this is no longer the case. So just how are and…
Google’s latest video calling app launches globally
Google has unveiled its latest video calling app, which has been dubbed by the company as “Duo.” According to Google, the app has gone live globally and is available on either Android or iOS devices. Google revealed that Duo works…
How apps can boost small African business profits and productivity
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), labour productivity in South Africa has trended downwards since 2011 – and, in the 47 years between 1967 and 2014, it’s declined by 41%. While this is concerning, it hasn’t…
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review
Lenovo has yet again built another superb laptop that not only looks sleek and stylish, but also packs in a plethora of powerful tech under its hood. When taking a closer look at the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, we found…
Battlefield 1 open beta set for August 31 2016
DICE and Electronic Arts have revealed that the Battlefield 1 Open Beta will begin on August 31st on Xbox One, PC via Origin, and on the PlayStation 4. Players who sign up as a Battlefield Insider and choose their platform…
Balancing agility and increased complexity for effective data management in the cloud
Ask any CIO today what their primary motivations are behind a move to the cloud, and increased agility is frequently in the top three. While cost savings still drive a significant proportion of cloud adoption, the flexibility to respond quickly…
South Africa: New online banking platform for entrepreneurs unveiled
Entrepreneurs have demanding schedules and the growth of their businesses is a lifelong project and a top priority. The right technology can help ensure that they are able to spend more time on those things that are key to their…
Fallout 4: Nuka-World Official Trailer
Hop on the Nuka-Express for a trip to Nuka-World… America’s Favorite Vacation Destination! Fallout 4’s latest DLC will be available from August 30th 2016 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Nuka-World is a vast amusement park featuring Raider…
