Pan African financial institution the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, have launched the Africa Trade... 

Communications group Cell C has completed its network migration ahead of schedule, opening access to about 14 000 towers countrywide, 12 000 sites of which are fourth-generation and long-term... 

Analogue services above 694 MHz will be switched off effective July 31, 2023, as the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) progresses towards a final switch off date of... 

The evolved long-term evolution (eLTE) broadband private network that Chinese information and communication technology company Huawei installed for the Bui Power Authority’s (BPA’s) hydropower... 

Ghana’s Bui Power Authority (BPA), with the collaboration of the grid operator, is planning on constructing a new 50 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm, in Dagbon, in the north of the country. This is... 

Telecommunications group Cell C has appointed Jorge Mendes as its new CEO, effective July 1, 2023. Mendes’ appointment comes at a pivotal time for the company with increasing competition in the... 

Endeavor South Africa, which offers venture capital and mentoring support to domestic and African entrepreneurial enterprises, is targeting to invest in up to 30 tech and tech-enabled companies... 

Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong on Tuesday said that the struggling group does not need a “knight in shining armour” to save it. “In the past few days there has been a lot of communication in the... 

To continuously improve its service offering and align with customer needs, software solutions giant AVEVA says it is going increasingly “hybrid” across the board with its services, meaning... 

Pan-African technology group Liquid Intelligent Technologies subsidiary Liquid Dataport and fixed network operator Angola Telecom have established a new terrestrial fibre route from Luanda, in... 

Local viral consumer rewards application Maholla and Internet service provider (ISP) ikeja have partnered to deliver high quality, cost-effective Internet services to youth across South Africa’s... 

JSE-listed Telkom on Monday confirmed it has received an unsolicited non-binding indicative letter from a consortium for the acquisition of a controlling stake in the telecommunications group. As... 

Telecommunications giant MTN has kicked off the first series of its Net Zero projects in a six-month plan to unlock off-grid, clean and reliable energy alternatives. The first series of projects... 

Kenya is a rapidly developing market for industrial software solutions, says Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³) MD Dion Govender. Although South Africa has a mature industrial base,... 

Telecommunications solutions company Paratus Botswana has completed its new metro fibre ring around Gaborone. The fibreoptic network will provide secure, high-speed connectivity to businesses and... 

Enterprise open source platform company Red Hat has launched a range of new application (app) management platforms and tools that are powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to... 

A survey of 13 000 employees, managers and leaders in large companies in 13 countries about their perceptions of the benefits of, and concerns over, artificial intelligence (AI) has highlighted... 

As the world transitions to cleaner energy systems and industries start to decarbonise, it is vital to keep sustainability top of mind. Software giant AVEVA is seeing many opportunities to aid... 

Many of the challenges being faced in industrial environments can be solved by upscaling, software company Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³) MD Dion Govender has said. In an address to... 

In addressing future “digital champions” at the X-Change 2023 conference on June 5, AVEVA digital portfolio strategy director Tim Sowell said industries globally are racing to break down silos in... 

Building on last year’s theme of “creating digital champions”, software company Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³) has turned its focus to sustainability at this year’s X-Change 2023... 

Cybersecurity multinational Trellix aims to grow further in Africa by deploying its scalable extended detection and response (XDR) cybersecurity platform and providing companies with... 

With South Africa lagging behind in issuing identity documentation to all citizens, there are various economic and social gains that could be leveraged by using biometrics for identity validation.... 

Although the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) as an organisation was, and senior SANDF officers individually were, aware of the importance of cybersecurity, awareness of, and education... 

Smart technology and innovative telecommunications solutions provider Corridor Africa Technologies is developing solutions to safeguard mobile network operators (MNOs) against the adverse impacts... 

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has established a Council Committee to determin the impact that ongoing loadshedding is having South Africa’s electronic... 

The organisers of Commercial UAV Expo, the world’s leading commercial drone trade show and conference, have announced an impressive list of more than 135 top unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)... 

Defence and manufacturing company Airbus Defence and Space and its wholly-owned subsidiary Airbus UpNext, have achieved in-flight autonomous guidance and control of a drone using an A310 MRTT. In... 

With 2023 marking 30 years of Securex South Africa and 13 years of A-OSH EXPO, this year’s events – to be held at the Gallagher Convention Centre from June 6 to 8 – will showcase various security... 

Today’s manufacturers are under pressure to be more flexible, reduce downtime, increase efficiency and, above all, keep personnel safe. These efforts are complicated by yet another requirement: the... 

A prominent South African property development firm has opted to use technology and connectivity provider Lighter Than Air Network’s (LTA’s) devices to monitor and capture critical environment... 

Amid the emergence of Industry 4.0, the need for smarter and more proactive fire detection systems to monitor assets and mitigate fire hazards is continuously increasing. These systems have become... 

Various technologies, such as tracking tags, closed circuit television cameras and thermal cameras, Wireless Sensor Networks, mobile apps and drones, are being used for intelligence and... 

German developer Wingcopter, an operator of delivery drones, and Hamburg-based ZAL Center of Applied Aeronautical Research have announced a development partnership. Together, they intend to explore... 

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has opened up the lower 6 GHz, which is the radio frequency range of 5925 MHz to 6425 MHz spectrum band, for the provision of WiFi...