Standard Bank Announces Data Free Mobile Banking
Standard Bank to offer zero-rate data charge on their mobile banking app. Standard Bank, announced today that they have dropped their data charges on their mobile banking app. This means that Standard...
View ArticleVR’s Healthcare Revolution: Transforming Medical Training
VR could revolutionise the healthcare industry. Oculus, Facebook's Virtual Reality (VR) division, is looking to provide a new immersive approach to healthcare education. Oculus advanced this approach...
View ArticleTop 10 African Countries Committed to Cybersecurity
Governments in developing countries need to adopt a national cybersecurity strategy. (image: Yu Samoilov) The second edition of the Global Cybersecurity Index 2017, released earlier this week by the...
View ArticleGemalto Wins Encryption and Data Protection Award
Neil-Cosser-Identity-and-Data-Protection-Manager-for-Africa-at-Gemalto. Gemalto, a digital security company, announced today that the company has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2017 Encryption...
View ArticleAdvancing Digitalisation In Africa
Angola Cables begins construction on Brazilian data centre. Angola Cables, a multinational telecommunications company, announced today that construction has begun on its South American data centre,...
View ArticleOracle ERP named leader in Gartner's 2017 cloud report
Oracle ERP Cloud named a leader in 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites. (Image Source: ). Oracle has been named as a Leader in Gartner’s 2017 “Magic Quadrant for...
View ArticleThe customer service journey of the future
Michelle Osmond, 1Stream. In the movie Big Hero 6, the inflatable Baymax robot is a healthcare companion who can diagnose and suggest treatment based on the 10,000 medical procedures he has learnt,...
View ArticleNetworks Unlimited brings Rubrik’s award-winning remote Cloud backup to SA
Anton Jacobsz, Managing Director of Networks Unlimited Networks Unlimited, an African value-added distributor of converged technology, data centre, networking, and security technology solutions, has...
View ArticleTeachers will be the true heroes of Africa’s success story
While technology has an important part to play in solving education challenges in Africa, it will not be the silver bullet, says Justin Reilly, CEO of Mwabu. As South Africa bids goodbye to Youth...
View ArticleWhat Is Going On With Etisalat Nigeria?
Etisalat Nigerian Circus Continues (image: Charlie Fripp) After a turbulent start to 2017, Etisalat International announced on Monday that the telecommunications service provider will be pulling out...
View ArticleXpress Money, Terrapay ink mobile money partenrship
Initial service rollout includes remittances to all mobile wallets in Tanzania and all mobile numbers in Nigeria. (image: Whiteafrican) Xpress Money has partnered with TerraPay to enable international...
View ArticleSouth Africa: SAP in alleged R100m Gupta 'kickback' scandal
Ajay and Atul Gupta (Image Source: Mail & Guardian) The South African office of German Software Giant SAP, have found themselves in the middle of the ongoing corruption scandal involving the...
View ArticleAvailability to accelerate for rest of 2017
Claude Schuck, regional manager at Veeam Africa. Following recent news that Microsoft will bring two Azure servers online in South Africa next year, the local market has been abuzz with excitement....
View Article4 ways eCommerce can boost your business
eCommerce could provide the perfect platform to grow your business. In the age of ever-evolving digitalization, a number of brick and mortar stores are having to look at changing the way they do...
View ArticleSAMED Named Strategic Partner For HISA2017
The Healthcare Innovation Summit will take place on 29 and 30 August at the Vodacom World in Midrand, Johannesburg. SAMED, a medical device industry association has been named strategic partner for...
View ArticleDigital Transformation in Africa: Potential or Rhetoric?
Mike Perk, Managing Director at African Innovation Consultancy, WWC. The buzz around Digital Transformation has never been greater. Fact is, the talk in boardrooms across the continent is increasingly...
View ArticleHuawei to offer WorldRemit's international money transfer service
Dr. Bello Moussa, Director of Innovation and Industries Relations Huawei(Right) and Alix Murphy, Director of Partnerships WorldRemit(left) Huawei, an ICT solutions provider, and WorldRemit, a digital...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s data centre investment to boost SA cloud adoption
Robert Marston, Global Head of Product at SEACOM. Microsoft’s announcement that it plans to build hyperscale datacentres in Cape Town and Johannesburg to deliver a range of cloud services, is set to...
View ArticleSA must invest in cyber security or risk being crippled by cyber attacks
Vikas Kapoor,Saurabh Kumar, Vishal Barapatre. The spate of cyber-attacks such as the recent Petya ransomware and the related WannaCry a few months ago, have left many organisations in Europe and Asia...
View ArticleDell EMC Launch Next Generation Portfolio Servers
Dell EMC's new range of portfolio servers. Dell EMC, the IT solutions arm of Dell Technologies, has announced the worldwide availability of their next generation servers. These servers aim to help...
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