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South Africa: Gijima to provide Metro Police with comms solution
The City of Johannesburg has commissioned Gijima, NEC System Integration Business Partner in South Africa, to provide – in partnership with Dimension Data – a completely new Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) solution for its Metro Police offices in Martindale.…
Dynamic Unified Communications: Ensure your solution is fully integrated
South African companies in every industry are becoming enchanted by the possibilities of Cloud-based architecture and services. One area of the organisation that is perfectly primed for migration to the Cloud is that of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) –…
Ghana: Tigo empowers pupils on WTISD
To mark World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), which was held on May 17, 2016, Tigo together with its Digital Change leaders, Marie Godwyll of Young @ Heart and Hayford Siaw of E-Library on Wheels visited two Shelter 4…
Scaling up solar power to meet Africa’s energy needs
In Niger’s eastern region of Diffa in the south of the Ténéré Desert — a vast sandy area across Niger and Chad up in the Sahara desert — are the ruins of a century-old colonial fort. The area around it,…
South Africa: Xbox Live Gold sees price hike
Xbox Live subscribers in South Africa have been notified, via Microsoft, that the company will be implementing a price hike. Microsoft revealed that the price of a one-month subscription will increase from R50 to R159. In addition to the month-to-month…
Changing Always-On expectations in the public sector
The public sector has moved beyond a backup-only approach towards embracing true business continuity thereby enabling an Always-On environment. This is according to insights shared at the Veeam V-Club event held in Pretoria recently. Gregg Petersen, regional director for the…
Intel ISEF 2016: UAE students showcase outstanding innovations
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2016), which was held in the United States in Phoenix Arizona, saw approximately 1,700 high school students from over 75 countries in attendance. Among these individuals were two students, Maryam Alhashmi…
M2M technology driving agriculture’s industrialisation
The agriculture and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sectors are heading for a union that is being brought about by natural calamity, economic developments and changes in the ICT space. Natural disasters such as drought, coupled with farmers’ security and…
The rise of African fintech is changing the way Africans transact
Fintech is disrupting the way ordinary Africans manage and use money. And these fintech players are standing up to traditional institutions as a force to be reckoned with. Accenture estimates that over one-third of mainstream financial services’ revenue is at…
Top 5 tips on how to spot a Facebook scam
Hoaxes are all over Facebook and with users often encouraged or forced via hijacks and hacks to share and like content, it will often seem like the hoax has been personally vouched for by your friend, says Carey van Vlaanderen,…
Etisalat Nigeria upgrades EasyMobile App
Etisalat Nigeria has launched a revamped version of its EasyMobile App. According to the company, among features, the new EasyMobile App enables customers on the network to get things done by eliminating the trouble of having to remember, text or…
Africa’s brightest students shine at Intel ISEF 2016
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2016), which was held in the United States in Phoenix Arizona, saw approximately 1,700 high school students from over 75 countries in attendance. Among these individuals were students from Nigeria, South Africa,…
Intel ISEF 2016: Microbiologist converts organic waste into electricity
Intel Corporation and the Society for Science & the Public today announced that Han Jie (Austin) Wang, 18, of Vancouver, Canada, is the recipient of the first place Gordon E. Moore Award and US$75,000 for developing microbial fuel cells (MFCs)…
African Start-Ups encouraged to participate in VIVA Technology Paris
African-born global ad-tech company, Popimedia is encouraging African tech start-ups to participate in VIVA Technology Paris. Co-hosted by Publicis, the inaugural event, running from 30 June to 2 July 2016, aims to provide a “real-time platform for collaboration and a…
MTN Group appoints new group executive
MTN Group has announced the appointment of Babak Fouladi as Group Executive: Technology and Information Systems. In this role, Fouladi will lead the delivery of MTN’s network and information technology strategy across the Group. On joining MTN, he will temporarily…
The Uber Era: Using Cloud Solutions to Avoid Disruption
The advent of the ‘Uber era’ has traditional businesses running scared. While business disruption isn’t new, the world is now seeing a perfect storm of accelerated technology innovation and rapidly changing consumer expectations that’s bringing unprecedented disruption and threatening established…
