Curiosity snaps high-resolution panorama

Curiosity snaps high-resolution panorama

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface. Composed of more than 1 000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled over the ensuing months, the composite contains 1,8-billion...

NAPAfrica reaches 1Tbps milestone

Teraco has announced that NAPAfrica, Africa’s largest Internet exchange point (IXP) and seventh largest in the world, has reached a landmark with 1 Terabit per second (Tbps) of peak traffic. According to Andrew Owens, manager of interconnection and peering at...

Canon could cut HP Inc ties if Xerox acquisition succeeds

It’s been reported that Canon will cut its ties with HP Inc if the hostile takeover bid launched by Xerox is successful. Canon chairman and CEO Fujio Matarai is quoted in Nikkei Asian review as saying that a takeover by Xerox would create a company rivalling...

SA fintech startup breaks R10bn barrier

South African fintech startup Ozow has processed more than R10-billion in payments. Ozow is an online banking payment solution that enables merchants to receive and process payments from any South African with a bank account across all payment environments, allowing...

Customer services technology trends for 2020

A recent survey of nearly 250 customer service and support leaders across the globe revealed five emerging trends in technology adoption and where service organisations are getting the most return on investments (ROI) today, according to Gartner. “Technology...

MTN fights back against battery theft syndicates

MTN reports that it is continuing to make inroads in the fight against battery theft at base stations. Seven individuals have been arrested, a total of 55 batteries were recovered, and four vehicles with tools were confiscated in a series of operations across the...