Despite knowledge gap, most people are keen on 5G

People are excited about the future of 5G-enabled entertainment and are willing to pay more – but there is still much the industry needs to do to create anticipation and close the 5G knowledge gap. This is one of the findings from a new Intel study, “5G...

Poor BI, analytics maturity stymies modernisation

More than 87% of organisations are classified as having low business intelligence (BI) and analytics maturity, according to a survey by Gartner. This creates a big obstacle for organizations wanting to increase the value of their data assets and exploit emerging...

Half the world’s population is on the Internet

By the end of 2018, 51,2% of the global population, or 3,9-billion people, will be using the Internet, according to the ITU. “ITU’s global and regional estimates for 2018 are a pointer to the great strides the world is making towards building a more...

Europe and the African opportunity

Africa is a continent of great change and opportunities – however, Europe finds it difficult to understand that its future lies in the south. This is the word from Giovanni Tria, Italian minister of finance and economy, speaking in Rome at a conference on...

Africa security token framework launched

Raise, a Bahamian and Kenyan technology company, has announced a partnership with Kenyan corporate law firm ALN Kenya Anjarwalla & Khanna (A&K) to create what it believes to be the continent’s first security token framework. Security tokens, sometimes...

Huawei executive appears for bail hearing

Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei and daughter of the company’s founder, appeared for a bail hearing in Vancouver on Friday, where the reasons for her arrest were finally made public. Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on the request of the US on...