South African IT firms asked to disclose foreign trade
IT companies will have to reveal foreign trade to SARS. In what is seen as a major development, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has tightened up its criteria for what multinational businesses...
View ArticleSA Company To Use Artificial Intelligence To Predict Crime
Solution House Software director, Tiaan Janse van Rensburg. Stop crime before it even happens? Sounds a bit far fetched due to the unpredictable nature of the beast but Cape-Town based software and...
View ArticleTour to Raise €20M for African Tech Start Ups
Applications Open for African Start-Ups to Join Inaugural Tour of Five European Cities. Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), a technology innovation centre in Nigeria and Google for Entrepreneurs, have announced...
View ArticleInterview: Rack Centre MD believes in Nigeria's growth potential
Ayotunde Coker, Rack Centre Managing Director. In another interview which showcases the innovation and development taking place on the African continent, IT News Africa spoke to Ayotunde Coker, the...
View ArticleEntertainment the focus with new Dell releases
VR, Gaming & Top Performance Go Mainstream with New Dell Inspiron AIOs & Gaming Rig. Yesterday at Computex 2017, Dell revealed two new all-in-ones (AIO) and a new gaming desktop to round out...
View ArticleThe future of business: technology-led or soon-to-be-dead
Cameron Beveridge, Director: Cloud, SAP Africa. The future of business is in the cloud. That is the message from global analysts as the latest IT sales figures show a marked shift away from hardware....
View ArticleDigital transformation helping businesses to thrive
John Tadman, Country Manager for Avanade South Africa. Digital transformation is no longer hype. Companies now realise that in order to keep up with their competitors, streamline their costs and...
View ArticleWannaCry might be the tip of the iceberg
There may be more to come after WanaCry. The attack on 200,000 plus computers across more than 120 countries around the world by the WannaCry ransomware certainly got the attention of governments,...
View ArticleMTN kicks off continent wide share knowledge programme
MTN kicks off their Yello Care Programme (Image Source: MTN Group is inviting social media users across Africa and the Middle East to join its employees in a virtual campaign to break down traditional...
View ArticleNew e-learning platform for agriculturalists
AGRICOLLEGES international has established a cloud-based e-learning platform, where students can study on computers and mobile devices. (image: E-learning Industry) A new modern cloud-based e-learning...
View ArticleAfrica's demand for fibre is set to boom
Mobile broadband has an important role to play, but fibre-based fixed-line infrastructure is also vitally important in connecting mobile towers and giving users affordable last-mile access to...
View ArticleWhy WiFi as a service is the future of business, retail and marketing
WiFi as as service will greatly impact business, retail and marketing in the near future. As the information age continues to deliver on innovation, constant change, and continuous improvement, tech...
View ArticleRisky business for mobile merchants
Schalk Nolte, Entersekt CEO. South African financial institutions are under severe pressure to better secure their mobile services. Fraud and increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks are massive...
View ArticleHow to Identify an Insecure Website
Users without proper Secure Sockets Layering (SSL) technology are at a high risk of privacy concerns such as cybercrime. If you think that simply because a website indicates ‘a secure pop-up’ you are...
View ArticleHow software developers can accelerate career growth
Ross McLaren, redPanda Software Senior Development Manager. Few could argue that the corporate environment has become an ultra-competitive, high-pressure world. Across industries and within businesses...
View ArticleSouth Africa: New online real estate platform launched
Marcél du Toit, Leadhome CEO. Leadhome, a South African real estate agency has announced the launch of Simpli, a new platform that aims to make buying or selling a home easy and stress-free. The...
View Articleiflix to take on Netflix with African expansion
iflix will be looking to expand their global reach through African expansion (Image: Ohsem.me) In an attempt to grow their global footprint and take on industry giants such as Netflix, iflix...
View ArticleThe era of the conscious app
Martin Walshaw, Senior Engineer at F5 Networks. The era of the app is on the up. There are no more limits. Programming and development are no longer restricted to technological tools – it is purely...
View ArticleAttendees give Education Innovation Summit 2017 the thumbs up
A packed Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel conference hall for the Education Innovation Summit 2017. (Image: Dean Workman) This years edition of the Education Innovation Summit took place on the 31st of May...
View ArticleGartner: Mobile app development is not accelerating
Gartner survey reveals the number of enterprise mobile apps Is not accelerating. A Gatner survey has revealed that more than a quarter of organisations globally have not built, customised or...
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