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Measures to protect the new Zimbabwe dollar - including sky-high interest rates - is coming to naught.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Monitor] The Judiciary yesterday unveiled a Shs9b digital system to auto-track all case files during the trial and update relevant players on the progress of the cases.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from MyBroadband » Business
WeWork pushed back its much-awaited initial public offering as the company seeks more time to allay investor doubts over its governance, slashed valuation and business prospects.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from IT News Africa news alert
Jumbo Group, a technology company based in Dubai, recently announced that it has chosen Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 as an important tool on its digital transformation journey. Jumbo has said that its options for digital transformation...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[The Herald] Ordinary Zimbabweans and economic experts have raised a red flag over excessive premiums charged by EcoCash agents when withdrawing cash, saying this was unlawful, inflationary and eroded recent salary increases awarded to...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from MyBroadband » Broadcasting
Showmax told MyBroadband that mobile viewing has drastically increased in popularity on its platform.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from IT News Africa news alert
On 17 September 2019, Telkom, the official gaming and connectivity partner of Comic-Con Africa, announced that $77,074 is the combined prize pool for the teams partaking in the Telkom VS Gaming Masters tournament with each tournament...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Capital FM] Nairobi -Safaricom has unveiled a program that will empower and train employees who are looking to shift to new digital careers.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from IT News Africa news alert
According to Gartner, the CIO must be the culture change agent to enhance digital dexterity as a competency that applies to individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole. Helen Poitevin, research vice president at Gartner revealed...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from BiztechAfrica News updates
Airtel Networks Zambia Plc has today launched the 077 network code to add to its existing 097 numbering.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from IT News Africa news alert
Electronics company, Acer announced on Tuesday, 17 September 2019, that De Villiers Wolhuter has been appointed as the new Commercial and Southern African Development Community Lead based at Acer’s Head office in Sunninghill,...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Ghanaian Times] The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has applauded the Helping Africa Foundation for building more ultra-modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) laboratories to complement efforts of promoting free...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Premium Times] A subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, Y'ello Digital Financial Services, last month launched its super-agent network service named 'MoMo Agent.'Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Observer] -- Says World Bank ReportTuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[CAJ News] SOME 25 international and local speakers will converge in Johannesburg mid-October to explore the use of technology to address the most pressing issues facing African continent.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
US enterprise software giant Oracle has listed South Africa as one of the countries where it plans to invest in cloud data centre facilities before the end of next year.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[New Dawn] - World Bank ReportTuesday, September 17, 2019 from IT News Africa news alert
On 16 September 2019, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) hosting provider announced the launch of its next-generation anti-DDoS platform equipped with ‘intelligent’ clustering techniques and a multi-tiered architecture to...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
The JSE warned on Tuesday that Blue Label Telecoms failed to submit its annual financial results on time and that if it fails to do so by month-end, its shares may be suspended from trading.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
WeWork pushed back its much-awaited initial public offering, and said it now expects to complete the listing by the end of this year as concerns mount over the company’s governance, valuation and business prospects.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from MyBroadband » Business
New smart terminals are aimed at providing South Africans with convenience and flexibility when sending or receiving packages.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
Promoted | In this podcast, Seacom head of engineering Mark Tinka explains why how Africa is falling behind the rest of the world in implementing IPv6 and why this is potentially a very serious problem.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from MyBroadband » Business
The 2019 MyBroadband Conference will host 3,000 ICT executives and decision-makers on 17 October, and feature excellent exhibitors and speakers.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from BiztechAfrica News updates
West Africa’s largest independent fibre optic infrastructure and telecommunications services provider, Phase3 Telecom, has announced that in addition to previous network scalability measures, it has commenced a strategic network...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from IT News Africa news alert
On 11 September 2019, video compression technologies company V-Nova announced a new partnership with OTT TV company Simpestream to launch new streaming service MVMO. This new streaming service is set to launch in Africa in late 2019. The...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Ghana Govt.] The Council of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Ghana has, since its inauguration, instituted measures to achieve the strategic objectives of the Institution.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[New Era] Windhoek -Minister of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Stanley Simataa yesterday said he is deeply confounded by the continued theft and vandalism of information communication technology-related infrastructure...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from IT News Africa news alert
Digital transformation company, CyberMAK Information Systems announced on Monday, 16 September 2019, that it has signed a partnership agreement with Automation Anywhere. The partnership aims to enable CyberMAK clients to accelerate...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
Facebook is once again defending libra - this time against fears that the envisioned cryptocurrency could replace sovereign currencies from the US dollar to the euro.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from MyBroadband » Business
VAST Networks is facing big financial problems, with its shareholders considering pulling the plug on the Wi-Fi network provider.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
The high court judgment has found sections of Rica to be unconstitutional and invalid, starting with the fact that the act does not prescribe a process for people to be informed about state surveillance.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from BiztechAfrica News updates
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has welcomed the official certification of Wi-Fi 6, the newest generation of Wi-Fi connectivity.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[New Zimbabwe] THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) Monday announced it had opened investigations into Econet's mobile money transfer subsidiary, Ecocash.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Botswana Daily News] Maun -Botswana has been hailed for leading the way in ensuring the success of Africa Code Week.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Botswana Daily News] Maun -Ministry of Basic Education has taken a deliberate decision to mainstream Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning, especially in this era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
The relatively new South African stock exchange ZAR X has launched what it’s calling the country’s first distributed settlement system for unit trusts.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[East African] Tanzania and Kenya raised the region's banner high at this year's Africa Tech Challenge held in Nairobi, scooping manufacturing contracts and scholarships.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from MyBroadband » Business
The ISPA today announced that it has introduced a Fellowship Programme with the aim of improving South Africa’s ICT skills base.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from IT News Africa news alert
The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2019 kicked off on Monday, 16 September at the CTICC. This year, the conference delved deeper into the role of the CIO, the origin of the digital society and unpacked the term TechQuilibrium. Brian Burke,...Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
Bill Gates, who knows a thing or two about antitrust investigations, doesn’t think it’s a good idea to break up the biggest US technology companies as some politicians have suggested.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from MyBroadband » Gaming
Google is planning to add support for its Stadia game streaming service to its Android TV platform.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from MyBroadband » Gadgets
The SA Post Office recently "misplaced" the package of a MyBroadband reader who had ordered a product from an international retailer.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom
[Premium Times] An additional 6.7 million mobile telephone lines (SIM cards) have been properly registered out of the estimated 9.2 million 'not properly registered' as recently disclosed by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC).Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
Oracle has unveiled an operating system that runs without the need for human oversight, part of a raft of new software tools meant to ease the company’s rocky transition to cloud computing.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
Promoted | We’ve come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell’s historic call on the first-ever telephone. Today, one underrated technology has evolved beyond recognition - GSM cellular.Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from TechCentral
In IBM’s vision of cloud computing, Amazon.com and Microsoft will be allies rather than rivals.Monday, September 16, 2019 from TechCentral
South Africa’s Rica legislation, which governs the ability of the state to spy on the electronic communications of citizens, is unlawful, the high court in Johannesburg has ruled.Monday, September 16, 2019 from TechCentral
A senior software developer is out of pocket to the tune of R2 000 after his card details were compromised in a malware attack on Garmin South Africa's website.Monday, September 16, 2019 from TechCentral
A plan to establish the world’s largest green energy financing initiative is being threshed out in South Africa.Monday, September 16, 2019 from MyBroadband » Telecoms
SEACOM has implemented a new peering policy which means many South African ISPs are no longer able to peer directly with the company.