Clean, reliable power key to Africa’s digital economy
Kathy Gibson reports – South Africa and Africa must drive forward to create a digitally-inclusive environment that creates opportunities for entrepreneurs and lifts people out of poverty. This is the word from Solly Malatsi, minister of communications and digital...
NAPAfrica traffic surges to 4,5Tbps
NAPAfrica, Africa’s leading Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and the seventh largest IXP globally, now drives 4,5Tbps of traffic. Adding to its existing members, including Akamai, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance (TikTok), CDN77, Cloudflare, Facebook (Meta), Google, Microsoft,...
Top priorities for effective chief data, analytics officers
The most effective data and analytics leaders focus on creating business value, nurturing data and analytics talent, and changing culture, according to Gartner. The role of the chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) is growing in influence as it becomes required for...
Update on the Energy Action Plan
The National Energy Crisis Committee (NECOM) has released a six-month progress update on implementation of the Energy Action Plan. This update follows a period of load shedding which was escalated to stage 6 due to a high number of breakdowns across Eskom's generation...
2Africa subsea cable lands in the Eastern Cape
The 2Africa subsea cable, the largest subsea cable system in the world, has landed at the Vodacom network facility in Gqeberha. This is the first submarine cable landing in the Eastern Cape region, promising greater internet capacity and acceleration of connectivity...
Israel, Italy have the lowest mobile Internet costs
Mobile internet traffic almost doubled in the last eight years, and today, more than 60% of all website traffic comes from people using mobile devices. But, as the global mobile data coverage gap continues to narrow, the price gap remains wide. According to data...
WEF wrap: speed, co-operation, resilience can mend a fragmented world
World leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in the first major international gathering of the year to address ongoing economic, energy and food crises while laying the groundwork for a more sustainable, resilient world. While many economists...
Bluebottle cybercrime group is active in Africa
Over the past several months, cybercrime group Bluebottle has been targeting companies in the financial sector in French-speaking African countries with a combination of spear phishing attacks and malware centred around job opportunities, Kaspersky warns. "The...
African economic growth expected to outpace global forecast
Africa is set to outperform the rest of the world in economic growth over the next two years, with real gross domestic product (GDP) averaging around 4% in 2023 and 2024. This is higher than projected global averages of 2,7% and 3,2%, according to the African...
Amid a global energy crisis, the world should look to Africa
Amid the climate, energy and geopolitical crises that have been raging for some years now, it is time the world looked to Africa for energy. This is according to Samia Suluhu Hassan, president of Tanzania, speaking at a session on "Repowering the World" at the 53rd...
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DRS adds Checkpoint Master Technician to its skills set
Specialist security solutions provider DRS has announced that a key technical resource has qualified as a Checkpoint Security Master, one of only two in South Africa and five in the EMEA region. Robert Brown, CEO of DRS, says the Check Point Certified Security Master...
Fortinet’s system-on-a-chip accelerates enterprise firewall
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IFS modernise enterprise applications at Seychelles Petroleum
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Lexmark again tops Quocirca MPS Vendor Landscape
Lexmark International has been positioned for the fifth consecutive year as a leader in managed print services (MPS) by European industry analyst firm Quocirca. The Managed Print Services Landscape report is an independent vendor analysis of the global enterprise MPS...
SAP PartnerEdge Cloud expands channel focus
SAP has announced the availability of SAP PartnerEdge Cloud Choice, profit option that will enable SAP partners to accelerate cloud sales, profit from selling in the cloud and deliver digital solutions to help businesses run live. This is part of SAP's plan to...
RSA unveils new SecurID suite
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, has unveiled its RSA SecurID Suite, a comprehensive identity solution that combines the separate disciplines of access, governance, lifecycle and identity assurance, working together in harmony. As a result, organisations can...
Software licensing programme from BlackBerry
BlackBerry has launched a software licensing program for its Mobility Solutions business by introducing the BlackBerry Hub+ for Android. A suite of BlackBerry applications, BlackBerry Hub+ makes productivity and communication on Android 6.0 Marshmallow smartphones...
Xperien gets global environmental accreditation
Xperien has received Environmental Management System (EMS) ISO 14001:2004 accreditation for refurbishment and redistribution of redundant IT assets and equipment. ISO 14000 is a global series of EMS standards that were developed for organisations to incorporate...
Sophos Intercept will protect against the unknown
Sophos has announced the availability of a beta program for Sophos Intercept, the next generation of advanced endpoint protection in the company's broad portfolio of security solutions. With the steady rise of crippling ransomware, pervasive zero-day exploits and...
Decision Inc attracts strategic investment
Decision Inc, developer of strategic business decision making solutions and technologies, has introduced South African Enterprise Development (SAED) as an investor as part of its long term strategic vision of international expansion, national growth and the...
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