SA at the forefront of tech adoption

South African companies are among the fastest adopters of new technology in the world. This is one of the findings of a survey by fleet management provider TomTom Telematics, which revealed that 66% of companies across the UK and Europe are early adopters, whereas 82%...

AWS to open SA data centres

Amazon Web Services has formally announced it will open an infrastructure region in South Africa in the first half of 2020. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) region will consist of three availability zones. Currently, AWS provides 55 availability zones across 19...

Network nirvana is about openness, says Nokia

In tomorrow’s ultra-connected world everyone and everything will require their own gigabit to support both new ultra-broadband services. This is the word from Nokia’s president of fixed networks Federico GuillĂ©n, speaking during a keynote conference...

IoT set to drive ambient commerce

Ambient commerce is an important use case for the Internet of Things (IoT) and promises to be a game changing retail technology. According to the latest report from GlobalData’s Thematic Research Team, Ambient Commerce – which combines technology with the...

R100m investment spurs high-impact job creation

With youth unemployment at 52%, the Jobs Fund is supporting the national drive for sustainable employment and inclusive growth with a R100-million matched grant to Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator to scale up a social impact bond for jobs. South Africa’s...

Significance of the iPhone Xr in a maturing smartphone market

Toward the end of the Series 4 Apple Watch and updated iPhone Xs launch event in September, and after the initial fanfare of the introductions, CEO Tim Cook mentioned there was “one more thing” to be revealed. By Wayne Lam, principal analyst: mobile...