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Warning: SA Cybercrime Bill Will Endanger your Freedom!
How the Cybercrimes Bill will affect you. (image credit: inspireinsurance.co.uk) South Africans have just a few more days to air their views on the 2017 version of the Cybercrimes Bill. The Bill was...
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Kenya: Safaricom Launches M-pesa API for Business
Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore. (Image Source: squaddigital.com) Safaricom has announced the release of a feature-rich M-PESA Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) portal for businesses in Kenya....
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Tracy Surkont Named New TotalSend MD
TotalSend's new Managing Director, Tracy Surkont. TotalSend, an email, sms and payments specialist, announced today that Tracy Surkont has been named as the new Managing Director of the company. The...
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Gilat Telecom, Cisco Partner in African POP Upgrade
Gilat Telecom Chooses Cisco To Upgrade Its POPs in DRC, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia as part of ongoing investment in pan-African fibre and satellite networks Gilat Telecom, a communications...
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Rwandan entrepreneurs offer free app development training
Three young technology entrepreneurs in Rwanda are providing free app development training. Three technology entrepreneurs, Ildephonse Mungwarakarama, Theogene Niyonsenga and Jerome Habimana, have...
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Using AI to Manage the Talent Lifecycle in a High Attrition Environment
Joel Stransky, director and co-founder of Pivotal Talent, a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for talent management. Technology-mediated disruption in the workplace has a...
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Goethe-Institut launches Library–Gamebox–Hub in Johannesburg
Goethe-Institut opens Library-Gamebox-Hub in Johannesburg. Goethe-Institut, a cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany has launched a Library–Gamebox–Hub in Johannesburg, which consists...
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Interview- "Biometrics to make payments secure and convenient"
Xavier Larduinat on how biometrics will change the payment space. Recently IT News Africa caught up with Xavier Larduinat, Head of Banking and Payment Innovation at digital security company Gemalto....
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Combating Cloud Sprawl: why it’s now a critical need for today’s enterprise
Brendan McAravey, Country Manager, Citrix South Africa. Not long ago, cloud was seen as a fad—something for start-ups to take a chance with, but hardly a serious choice for enterprise IT. Now, it’s...
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Facebook takes action against fake news in Kenya
A tool that will help Kenyans spot fake news on Facebook has been launched today. With the recent spate of fake news reports circulating on social media in Kenya, Facebook has today rolled out an...
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How the mobile experience is shaping customer expectation
Remi de-Fouchier, VP Marketing Communications at Gemalto. Our lives have become, in many ways, a ‘mobile experience’. We’ve become inseparable from, dependent on and emotionally attached to our...
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Can industrial and manufacturing security drive ops, productivity and...
Neil Cameron, Johnson Controls Area General Manager, Building Efficiency – Africa. With so many moving parts, industrial and manufacturing concerns have a broader risk profile. This means their...
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Credit Card vs Cash in Africa – on the verge of convergence.
Simeon Tassev, Managing Director and QSA at Galix Networking According to a recent study conducted by Mastercard, over 50% of the South African population still transact using cash on a daily basis....
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Hackers leak Game of Thrones fourth episode script
Hackers threatened to leak full episodes of HBO upcoming shows along with written material from next week’s episode of “Game of Thrones.” Written material that is allegedly from the fourth episode of...
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Taxify, Didi Chuxing partner to support Cross-Regional Transportation Innovation
Taxify, today announced a strategic partnership with Didi Chuxing. Ride sharing company, Taxify, today announced a strategic partnership with Didi Chuxing, a Chinese mobile transportation platform....
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All you need to know about data protection
Gary Alleman, MD at Master Data Management and Attorney Alan Warrener. The mess that is the Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), Net1 and South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA) data debacle serves as a...
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How much memory do you really need in a smartphone?
The new LG G6 smartphone features an SD slot and comes with a 64GB SD card (for a combined total of 96GB of internal and expandable memory. When you’re searching for the ideal smartphone to suit your...
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Harnessing the power of technology in SA’s broken education system
Technology plays an important role in addressing critical education challenges, but equipped educators are needed to guide the process. While it’s misguided to start hailing technology as the silver...
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AI To Be In All Software By 2020- Gartner
Gartner predicts that AI will be in all software by 2020. Market analyst firm, Gartner, predicts that Artificial Intelligence will be a constant in every software by 2020. In January 2016 the firm...
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Internet The Key To Unlocking Economic Access- Report
Arthur Goldstuck, MD of technology market researchers World Wide Worx. The recently released Internet Access in South Africa 2017 study, produced by World Wide Worx, a market research firm, with the...
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