SA’s first solar façade skyscraper is generating power
Energy Partners, in collaboration with Fairvest, has completed the Metalbox skyscraper solar project in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, featuring building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) that generate up to 300MWh annually, making it South Africa's first solar facade...
Intel AI pioneers 8K OTT broadcast at Paris Olympics
Watching live Olympic sport from the comfort of your home in 8K video resolution - the highest broadcast-grade viewing quality - would, before today, have been something of a pipe dream. At the Olympic Games Paris 2024, Intel will demonstrate how this vision is...
As power declines, InSight is still hunting marsquakes
NASA’s InSight Mars lander is gradually losing power and is anticipated to end science operations later this year. By December, InSight’s team expects the lander to have become inoperative, concluding a mission that has thus far detected more than 1 300 marsquakes –...
How scammers leverage crypto hype in liquidity mining
Sophos has released threat research about nascent cybercrime, lifting the lid off scammers who are taking advantage of the hype about cryptocurrency trading and the vast sums of digital wealth users have made (and lost) in crypto markets to lure in and swindle...
$100m facility aims to unlock African supply chain finance
British International Investment (BII), the UK's development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, has signed a $100-million risk-sharing facility for supply chain finance with Citi, a global leader in trade and supply chain finance solutions. The new...
Insurance ombuds give almost R400m back to consumers
The insurance ombuds put almost R400-milion back in the hands of consumers who complained in the past financial year. In a joint 2021 annual report, the ombudsman for long-term insurance (OLTI) noted that R200-million was recovered for complainants while the ombudsman...
Big growth for end user spend via carrier billing
The value of end-user spend on digital goods via carrier billing will exceed $74-billion by 2026, up from $54-billion in 2022, according to a new study from Juniper Research. This growth of over 37% reflects the increasing relevance of carrier billing as an option for...
Airport digitalisation could boost African economic recovery
Critical airport worker and capacity shortfalls in Africa that threaten to keep flights and passengers grounded and impede the continents' economic recovery can be rapidly and affordably addressed with the adoption of trusted, secure cloud-based solutions. This is...
AI-generated endangered species mingle with the nightlife in Times Square
Bengal tigers, red pandas and mountain gorillas are among the world’s most familiar endangered species, but tens of thousands of others — like the Karpathos frog, the Perote deer mouse or the Mekong giant catfish — are largely unknown. Typically perceived as lacking...
Metaverse could add $3trn to global GDP
The metaverse has the potential to add an estimated $3-trillion to the global economy in a decade if adoption and growth are similar to mobile technology. Estimates are that the metaverse could add $40-billion in sub-Saharan Africa alone - a 1,8% contribution to...
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Clean data needed for loyalty insights
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Integration key to work/life balance
Instead of focusing all one’s energy on separating and individually balancing each facet of life, rather concentrate on integrating these different areas. This is the essence of work/life balance, says Andre Louw of Mobile Data. There is a substantial amount of...
Fujitsu expands Lifebook range
Fujitsu has expanded its popular Lifebook notebook and Stylistic tablet range with new devices featuring the latest 5th generation Intel Core vPro processor family. With this line-up Fujitsu responds to the continuing trend of companies offering their workforce the...
Mobile comms as an alternative to post
Regardless of the South African Post Office’s four month strike coming to an end, organisations should step up their use of mobile communications to get their bills, statements and other vital communications to their customers. That’s the word from Jacques Swanepoel,...
Thermal imaging cameras cut illegal mining
In Ghana and Tanzania, incidents of illegal mining have been cut by more than 50% for one pan-African mining company. The use of thermal imaging cameras in security vehicles and at high sites, along with the capability to record and view each incident live – from...
Hughes Electrical rolls out Ruckus solution
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How the channel can capitalise on IoT
Gadgets are becoming increasingly "smarter". Some of today's cellphones pack more processing power than desktops of a decade ago. Even those devices and objects that never had to be particularly clever – such as smoke alarms, house alarms and thermostats – now contain...
IDC lauds DiData
Dimension Data has been announced as the leading IT services provider, in South Africa in 2013 by the International Data Corporation (IDC). The report, South Africa IT Services Market 2014-2018 Forecast and 2013 Analysis (IDC #ZS04W), provides a detailed overview of...
ERP must be flexible to survive
An ERP system that is not sufficiently flexible to meet changing business demands is an anchor not a sail, holding the business back, not driving it forward. This is according to a Gartner report that now defines legacy as "any system that is not sufficiently flexible...
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