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 | Konnect Africa brings Wi-Fi to rural African communities. Company unveils SmartWIFI service offering at AfricaCom 2017... read | |  | Last night, 8 November 2017, saw the 10th AfricaCom Awards held at The Lookout in Granger Bay, Cape Town. 2017 marks AfricaCom's 20th anniversary... read | |  | Ilse van den Berg Emeka Afigbo, strategic products partnerships manager at Facebook, says he is often reminded just how much the technical ecosystem in Africa has grown and how the internet is drastically changing the continent. read | |  | Ilse van den Berg Toby Shapshak, editor-in-chief of Stuff Magazine, shared some thoughts on how innovation is better in Africa at AfricaCom 2017. He highlighted some specific innovations to illustrate how the continent is leapfrogging into the future... (video) read | |  | Issued by AfricaCom First-time visitor to the world's largest Africa-focused technology event, Jassim Juma of New Link, could not be more delighted with his participation at AfricaCom... read | |  | Juanita Pienaar Lillian Barnard, director for the Public-Sector at Microsoft SA, addresses the urgency of digital transformation, gives pointers on how companies can start to embark on their digital transformation journey and shares some of the benefits of doing it before your business is left behind... read | |  | Issued by AfricaCom Nashua-headquartered Parallel Wireless became the recipient of the 2017 AfricaCom Most Innovative LTE Service/Application Deployment Award... read | |  | Nicci Botha Given the proliferation of mobile devices in Africa, it makes sense that digital tools would alleviate many of the healthcare issues in the out-of-the-way places... read | |  | Ilse van den Berg AfricaCom 2017 is once again abuzz with delegates from all over the world and is even bigger and better than ever before - as is customary for events like these... read | | |
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 | Ilse van den Berg The NEC/XON ICT Summit 2017 kicked off on Monday, 6 November 2017. Keynote speakers included the likes of Carel Coetzee, CEO of XON and Hironobu Kurosaki, president and CEO of NEC Europe... read |
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 | Ashley Boag Technology enables African smallholder farmers to access better information, improve crop yields, secure better prices for their produce, and improve their livelihoods... read |
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 | Mobile data prices could start to fall faster as operators invest in their networks, according to Robert Pasley, chief strategy officer at Cell C... read |
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 | Satellite solution provider InterSat and ABS, a global satellite operator, announced the launch of iDirect platforms on ABS-3A C-band and Ku-band beams... read |
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 | According to Erik Jordaan, director of BT-SA, when it comes to infrastructure and operations (I&O), a properly and strategically designed solution will save companies exponentially more money in the long term than this week's discounted deal... read |
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 | GE partners with African Leadership University to empower African professionals with valuable digital skills... read |
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 | Issued by Urban Espresso In playing their part to help create employment, Smartcall, together with Vodacom, has just launched a training centre and distribution hub in Kliptown... read |
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 | FlySafair and Zapper have joined forces to provide travellers with a more feasible flight booking service. Travellers can now use the Zapper app to pay for FlySafair tickets online... read |
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 | Three South African entrepreneurs recently launched an app that connects people to places to work, collaborate and network... read |
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 | Tom Jackson African startups Flare, Snapplify and Flutterwave were among the winners at the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards, which took place in Cape Town last night... read |
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 | Ericsson yesterday, 7 November 2017, in a briefing at AfricaCom 2017 released its Ericsson Middle East and Africa Mobility Report 2017, which predicts that LTE subscriptions will expand by 47%... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews The MTN App of the Year awards were a success a few weeks ago, but have you ever wondered about the tech-savvy system behind the awards? Mike Lysko, CEO and founder of Flock Eventing Platform explains the connectivity, convenience and entertainment opportunity of the delivery mechanism... read |
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 | Iniel Dreyer Not only is data essential for the smooth operation of any business, but perhaps more so is the protection and backing up thereof. Most organisations have - or should have - a data protection and business continuity policy in place... read |
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 | Dan Marcus Remote working is the way of the future, and with the rise of the gig economy, driven by an ever-growing freelance workforce, comes the challenge of project managing a team working from different locations... read |
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 | Peter Alkema New customer preferences threaten the traditional business models of financial services companies and large banks... read |
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 | The first AfricArena took place this week and welcomed over 450 delegates, 100 entrepreneurs, 80 startups, 22 exhibitors, 42 speakers, 67 investors It also witnessed more than 40 live startup pitch battles. read |
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 | Jacques Plaut Before I say anything else, let me first say this: I do not know where the price of Bitcoin is going... read |
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 | Hisense Electric, the publicly listed subsidiary of Hisense Group, has agreed to purchase 95% of the shares of Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation for 12.9 billion Japanese Yen... read |
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 | Issued by EOH MC Solutions Technology service provider EOH Coastal is making greater use of their CX offering to better understand target markets and ultimately deliver the best possible products and services to them... read |
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 | Calestous Juma Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and the rapid adoption of robots across diverse industries are stalking the fear of jobless growth... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Ian Russell, CEO of BCX, shares the importance of conferences like BCX Disrupt taking place later this week, as well as the power of sharing the impact of technology and innovation with the youth... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg Mark Hosking from Juniper shared some thoughts on the journey from automation to autonomy in his presentation, 'The self-driving network: From automation to autonomy', at the sixth annual NEC/XON Summit... read |
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 | Arno Hattingh, Issued by Smartlink Securing a home is easy because there's always only a couple of people that work with the security system. Securing a commercial property is another story... read |
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 | Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science New transformative digital technologies hold substantial promise for South African companies and the economy... read |
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 | Colin Thornton More than ever before, technology drives our world. It powers businesses, cities and governments, and shapes individual lives in a hugely impactful way... read |
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 | Nick Hedley MTN's $1bn fine in Nigeria contributed to a slashed corporate social investment budget for the MTN SA Foundation in the 2017 financial year... read |
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 | The BPI Network has launched a new report entitled Gain the Ability for Cloud Agility: Assessing Enterprise Capacity to Embrace a Multi-Cloud Strategy, which examines the growing shift of enterprises to a cloud-first IT strategy... read |
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 | The Huawei Mate 10 Pro and the Porsche Design Huawei Mate 10 have arrived in South Africa... read |
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 | As Egypt's mobile operators thrive, state-owned Telecom Egypt is entering the market in an effort to boost state revenues... read |
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 | African countries have a long road to travel to advance to the level of technological capacity common in the developed world... read |
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 | South Africa's 9th annual Top 20 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Award winners have been announced by the NSBC, in association with World Famous Events... read |
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