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Blue Label Telecoms to change its name
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Logitech for Business looks to SA growth
Kathy Gibson reports - Logitech has successfully reinvented itself in the enterprise space with Logitech for Business offering market-leading accessories and video collaboration solutions. Loubna Imenchal, vice-president and head of Logitech for Business: Africa,...
Apple Intelligence comes standard on new iPhones
Apple’s new iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max feature Apple Intelligence, larger display sizes, new creative capabilities with pro camera features, graphics for immersive gaming, and more, powered by the A18 Pro chip. With Apple Intelligence, the iPhone includes...
Kalane Rampai to leave Microsoft SA
Kalane Rampai has stepped down as MD of Microsoft South Africa. According to a statement from the company , he has decided to pursue an opportunity outside of Microsoft. Lillian Barnard, current President of Microsoft Africa and previous MD of Microsoft South Africa,...
Multimodal GenAI solutions to become the norm
A significant 40% of generative AI (GenAI) solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023, according to Gartner. This shift from individual to multimodal models provides an enhanced human-AI interaction and an opportunity for...
SA gets first bite of new iPhone 16
South Africans will be among the first customers in the world to get their hands on Apple’s new iPhone 16 range of smartphones. iStore South Africa has confirmed that it will be launching the iPhone 16 range on the same day as the US and other major markets. The...
Diversity matters, and improves telco performance
Continued adoption of diversity targets and improved reporting of race, disability, and gender identification is found to be helpful in improving the performance of telecom companies, according to an analysis of UK leading service providers to enterprise customers...
Wrist-worn device shipments slip but China takes up the slack
According to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker data, the global wrist-worn device market shipped 43,7-million units in the second quarter of 2024 (2Q24), a year-over-year (YoY) decrease of 0.7%. China...
WiFi 7 surges as WLAN shows signs of recovery
There was a glimmer of hope in the enterprise class wireless LAN (WLAN) market as revenues increased Q/Q to $2,2-billion, according to a Dell’Oro report. The adoption of Wi-Fi 7 accelerated, with Huawei shipping over half of the world’s units. “While WLAN revenues...
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B-BBEE could be used to unlock job creation
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Top IT security threats in 2021
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Knife Capital launches second 12J venture capital fund
Having deployed most of its first R250-million Section 12J Venture Capital Fund: KNF Ventures, Knife Capital has launched another 12J fund for new investors to participate in this growing and exciting alternative asset class. KNF Ventures II is the second Section 12J...
Workshop 17 wins global startup award
Workshop17 has scooped Best Coworking Space in the 2019 season of the Global Startup Awards (GSA), the world’s largest independent startup ecosystem competition. On outshining the other finalists from around the world, Paul Keursten, Co-Founder and CEO of Workshop17...
DotModus sees dynamic US expansion
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