Airtel debuts 4G in Seychelles

Nov 28, 2014

Bharti Airtel has launched Africa’s first 4G service in the Seychelles. The FD-LTE network makes the Seychelles amongst the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to commercially deploy the technology, and marks Airtel’s first commercial LTE network in Africa. The...

QlikView SA debuts Qlik Sense

Nov 28, 2014

QlikView South Africa used its annual user conference at Vodaworld, Midrand on 11 November to introduce the latest member of the Qlik product family – Qlik Sense. The next-generation data visualisation and analytics application wowed the audience of 700 users and...

Huawei debuts new smartphones

Nov 12, 2014

Huawei has announced the launch of two new smartphones, the 6-inch Ascend Mate 7 and the 5,5-inch Ascend G7, set to hit the African market early in 2015.

IBM’s Watson makes African debut

Oct 9, 2014

IBM and Metropolitan Health today announced the first commercial application of Watson in Africa. IBM’s Watson is a ground breaking computing platform able to interact in natural language. By tapping into the power of Watson, Metropolitan Health aims to...

Oracle debuts cloud application suite

Sep 30, 2014

At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle introduced Oracle Applications Cloud Release 9, including significant additions and updates to its full portfolio of software as a service (SaaS) offerings. To help customers adopt its cloud applications, Oracle has expanded the Oracle...