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Seacom 2.0 sets Africa up for an AI, cloud future
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Denmark to grant citizens copyright over their own features
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Stanford sues Xerox over PARC neglect
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Europe faces sharpest rise in mobile data costs
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Customer experience BPO to hit $296,29bn
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Almost half of agentic AI projects will fail
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Nokia slashes power consumption with Xeon 6
Intel and Nokia are expanding their long-standing and strategic collaboration to advance core network infrastructures with the deployment of Intel Xeon 6 processors with Efficient-cores (E-cores) in the Nokia NFVI v5.0 and Nokia Core Networks Applications. With better...
Manufacturing sentiment looks up
The Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for June 2025 points to a tentative improvement in manufacturing sentiment. The seasonally adjusted PMI increased by 5.4 points to 48.5 in June, marking an eighth consecutive month in contractionary territory. This suggests...
How to anticipate the need for quantum skills
The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) has released a new report that looks at ways to strengthen the quantum industry’s talent pipeline and bridge the gap between classroom formal education and hands-on experience required for quantum-related roles....
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