OpenAI to pump $400m into new AI data centres
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have announced they will be building five new US data centre sites under OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform Stargate. The combined capacity from the new site, along with OpenAI’s flagship site in Texas and ongoing projects with CoreWeave,...
Africa’s AI ambitions and digital future go global
As global leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly, African CEOs took the opportunity at the Unstoppable Africa 2025 conference to announce major projects and initiatives that are set to position the continent at the heart of global innovation – most...
MTN enhances festive season network capacity
As South Africans prepare to celebrate the festive season, MTN has been capacitating its network in high density areas and tourist hotspots to carry increased voice and data traffic over the festive season. Operations are underway to cater for additional coverage and...
Resellers vote Syntech Distribution best for Customer Care
Syntech Distribution has scooped the Customer Care Distributor of the Year in the 12th annual Channelwise Awards. For the Customer Care Distributor of the Year award, the 2 828 resellers polled in the survey were asked to rate their chosen distributors on a number of...
Pinnacle scoops Channelwise Distributor of the Year 2024 award
Pinnacle has reclaimed the coveted Channelwise Distributor of the Year title, pipping Axiz, Mustek, Tarsus Distribution and Rectron at the post. The prestigious awards are the culmination of the 12th annual Channelwise Distributor of the Year survey. This year, 2 828...
All the top vendors for 2024
The votes are in, and South African resellers have named their favourite vendors for 2024. The 12th annual Channelwise Awards survey attracted a record 2 828 voters, who named their favourite vendors in 10 categories, as follows: Infrastructure hardware Servers...
Businesses are vulnerable to AI-driven cyberattacks
A recent Kaspersky study reveals that businesses are increasingly worried about the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cyberattacks. According to the findings, 56% of surveyed companies in South Africa reported a rise in cyber incidents over the past year,...
Paratus opens Botswana to Zambia fibre route
Paratus Botswana has commenced work on lighting a new fibre route, the SADC Highway, that will connect Gaborone in Botswana, through Zimbabwe, to Livingstone in Zambia. The first section in Botswana, which is from Gaborone to Plumtree, spans approximately 500km and is...
Africa to benefit from Smart LEO networks
Q-KON is extending its collaboration with Eutelsat OneWeb to develop end-user portfolio service sets engineered to meet the needs of niche market sectors in sub-Saharan Africa. Recognising the challenges inherent in the African connectivity landscape, Q-KON is working...
Siemens Healthineers adopts medical imaging AI
About 3,6-billion medical imaging tests are performed annually worldwide to diagnose, monitor and treat various conditions. Speeding up the processing and evaluation of all these X-rays, CT scans, MRIs and ultrasounds is essential to helping doctors manage their...
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Effective customer experience begins with operations optimisation
Many leading brands find that the operational transformation journey is more challenging, costly, and resource-demanding than expected. Haydn Townsend, MD of Accenture Interactive in Africa Organisations must unify their people, processes, and technology around the...
Be mindful with it comes to security
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, this comes at a time when cybersecurity awareness should be on everyone's mind. The risk of attack has soared, according to Atlas VPN - 45% of organisations globally were impacted by recurring cyberattacks, malware up by 358%,...
DPO Group acquired by Network International
DPO Group, Africa's largest and fastest-growing payment service provider (PSP), has finalised its acquisition by Network International, an enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa. Network International has acquired 100% of DPO Group, which will...
Can hybrid working be truly sustainable?
As the hybrid workplace emerges and businesses are continuing to roll out new technologies to provide their employees with the right tools to work from home, there is a growing concern about the damaging impact that this could have on the environment. By Ronald Ravel,...
Private 5G redefines digital efficiency with network modernisation
From the network to the business. From the edge to the cloud. Dr Setumo Mohapi, MEA managed networks and collaboration services executive from Dimension Data, explains why it's time to define success by design, with solutions that meet the demands of the...
Account takeover fraud on the rise
Banking fraud management has always been dynamic, fast paced, and complex, writes Toby Carlin, senior director: fraud, cyber and compliance at FICO. Fraudsters are constantly evolving their tactics to adapt to changes in the banking landscape and exploit weaknesses...
Emerging markets and the bumpy ride to digitisation
Emerging markets have been following the digitisation race. However, a lack of a user-oriented approach when designing e-services has been slowing down their progress, resulting in poor user engagement and unfulfilled expectations of citizens. According to Mindaugas...
Lower sales could mean higher profits
Businesses don't need to sell more products to increase revenues, they should rather focus on selling higher quality products with a longer life. The key lies in the circular economy, writes Wale Arewa, CEO of Xperien, which not only promises higher profits but...
Cellphone snatching on the rise
Opportunistic crime is on the rise and so is the trend of cellphone snatching. Brazen criminals are willing to risk life and limb to snatch a R20 000 smart phone and make off with it - phones left on tables right next to you in restaurants, in vehicles hooked up to...
Truck driver shortage threatens global supply chains
The transportation of goods and products is integral to the functioning of South Africa's economy. As demonstrated during July's unrest, any pause in the movement of essential goods from suppliers could lead to calamitous shortages of vital supplies and food,...
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