Gender gap in mobile Internet adoption stagnates
Progress in closing the gender gap in mobile Internet adoption across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) stalled in 2024, according to the “Mobile Gender Gap Report 2025” published in London today by the GSMA. The report shows that women are 14% less likely than...
SA’s small businesses are resilient
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Meta payouts help allay metaverse, AI financial fears
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Most South Africans won’t be able to retire comfortably
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Analysts warn of Bitcoin downturn
FBS analysts project a looming downturn for Bitcoin as the market players await the upcoming Federal Reserve's key rate cut in 2024. This tendency signals the rising probability of the BTCUSD's closing bullish trend as rate hikes frequently influence risk assets such...
Be careful sharing personal data with chatbots
Following the news of new ChatGPT functionality - custom GPTs can now be added to the dialogues with the original ChatGPT - Kaspersky experts have stressed the importance of exercising caution in sharing sensitive data with AI chatbots. "As GPTs can use external...
Deepfakes will sow distrust in ID verification, authentication solutions
By 2026, attacks using AI-generated deepfakes on face biometrics will mean that 30% of enterprises will no longer consider such identity verification and authentication solutions to be reliable in isolation, according to Gartner. "In the past decade, several...
Dynamic strategy sees Netflix sentiment soar
Netflix's sentiment soared in 2023, fueled by strategies including a new advertising plan, the introduction of paid sharing options, and a dynamic expansion into the gaming sector - underpinned by a remarkable increase in monthly active users (MAUs) and the successful...
Decline, then growth, forecast for campus switches
Well in excess of $100-billion will be spent on campus switches over the next five years, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group, which says that after three strong years in campus switch sales it foresees a significant correction in 2024, followed by a...
African gains boost Vodacom results
Vodacom has announced that, for the quarter ended 31 December 2023, group revenue increased 26,8% to R38,9-billion, positively impacted by the acquisition of Vodafone Egypt. Group service revenue growth including Vodafone Egypt on a pro-forma basis was 8,8%, at the...
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Etisalat partners with Huawei on 5G network
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Home WiFi performance testing standard launched
Broadband Forum, in collaboration with industry partners, has released the industry's first WiFi performance test standard - the TR-398 Indoor WiFi Performance Test Standard (TR-398) - during Mobile World Congress 2019. TR-398 is the first standard that systematically...
The challenge of powering 5G
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Rakuten Selects NEC’s and Netcracker’s solutions
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Proactive approach to business continuity, operational efficiency needed
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Kaspersky helps secure bionic technologies
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Canon helps partners deliver cloud solutions
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Sasfin takes equity stake in fintech lender Payabill
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Transitioning to a new payroll solution
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New features in Acumatica 2019 R1
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