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Liquid Intelligent Technologies announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Cysiv MEA, a technology company that was formerly SecureMisr, headquartered in Cairo. The business specialises in providing enterprise cloud and cyber security services to some of Egypt’s leading companies, particularly in the financial services sector. The acquisition allows the London-based group with operations in Africa, UK, the US and Latin America, to bring some of the best global cloud and cyber security products to the Egyptian market. Liquid is a recognised integrator on behalf of some of the biggest technology companies in the world. The organisation will rebrand Cysiv MEA to…
MTN GlobalConnect and BICS today announced the renewal of their partnership to collaborate in international mobility and connectivity for Africa. This partnership will see the complementary strengths of both companies coming together to accelerate the growth of mobile and digital services in Africa. MTN GlobalConnect, a pan-African digital wholesale and infrastructure services company, and BICS, an international digital communications platform business, through this partnership, will extend affordable international communication across Africa. With expertise in innovation and digitalization, African operators & service providers will benefit from a Next-Gen technology-powered bouquet of services. “It’s important that we form strong partnerships to provide…
Eskom says loadshedding will continue to be suspended until 05:00 on Monday. Thereafter, Stage 1 loadshedding will be implemented from 05:00 until 16:00 on Monday. The companys said stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented from 16:00 on Monday until 05:00 on Tuesday. It added that loadshedding will be again suspended from 05:00 until 16:00 on Tuesday. Then Stage 2 loadshedding will be implemented from 16:00 on Tuesday until 16:00 on Wednesday. Eskom will publish a further update as soon as any significant changes occur. Please refer to the table below for the schedule: Breakdowns are currently at 15 645MW of…
MTN Group today alerted the public to beware of a new scam where the Group’s Chairman of the Board, Mcebisi Jonas, is being impersonated to solicit money. Today the group announced that it will be commencing an Internal Audit and Forensic process in an effort to weed out an organised crime syndicate after been made aware of incidents related to the false solicitation of funding under the guise of requests for sponsorship towards the company’s Corporate Social Investment (CSI) projects. “We have been made aware of an increasing number of incidents where our Group Chairman of the Board, Mcebisi Jonas,…
Huawei this week held an event at its Johannesburg campus honouring the winners of the South African iteration of its annual Huawei ICT Competition. At the same event, it kicked off the programme for its 2023 ICT Academy. The 2022 – 2023 ICT Competition is an ICT talent exchange event developed by Huawei for global college and university students. More than 5 000 students from South African tertiary institutions enrolled in the competition, with the top 53 students awarded during this ceremony. The national finalists come from some of South Africa’s top universities such as the University of the Witwatersrand…
Nigeria is at an inflection point where it needs to adopt enabling technologies at scale to support high growth in the telecommunications and digital sectors. Using the right technology as a catalyst, these sectors can support financial inclusion and widespread economic growth. Gur Geva, founder and CEO of iiDENTIFii, a world-leading biometric authentication platform, says, “Biometric technology is a crucial consideration in Nigeria’s ongoing digital expansion. If financial institutions, telecommunications companies and the public sector adopt enterprise-grade biometric authentication, they can provide services to Nigerian consumers safely, efficiently and at scale.” iiDENTIFii is in the process of rolling out its…
Telkom and the University of the Witwatersrand today signed a partnership agreement to establish the new Telkom Industry Solutions Lab. This is a commercial research and development (R&D) facility designed to accelerate synergistic collaboration between industry and academia. This collaboration will bring together multidisciplinary teams from Wits, the Telkom Group and beyond, and will pave the way for cutting-edge innovation in telecommunications and the development of transformative digital solutions for various industries. The new initiative was officially launched today at a ceremony where Jonas Bogoshi, Telkom’s BCX CEO, and Wits University Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, signed the agreement…
UiPath, a leading enterprise automation software company, has collaborated with the Media, Information and Communication Technologies Sector Education and Training Authority (MICT SETA) in South Africa to develop the first national qualification in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. The initiative aims to provide the workforce of the future with valuable tech skills and will potentially have a positive impact on youth unemployment by creating new jobs in software development, setting up for further growth the expanding automation ecosystem in South Africa. “South Africa has seen the emergence of a strong automation ecosystem, which…
South Africa’s long awaited and highly anticipated rapid payment programme (RPP), PayShap, offers huge potential to boost digital payments and, when used in conjunction with technologies such as Chat Commerce, could serve as a real game changer for businesses. But the disparity in launch pricing from local banks could hinder uptake, blunting the effects of the initiative, says Chat Commerce and mobile messaging leader, Clickatell. “Instant account-based payments like PayShap are designed to help individuals and businesses improve cash flow by cutting the time to process payments from days to seconds. Who would say no to instant access to funds?…
Since its launch in November last year, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT has had a massive impact in just a few short months. Already, some schools have banned it as students quickly employed the bot to take shortcuts in their schoolwork, while debates rage on whether the bot will or won’t replace copywriters. It can also write code – so well, in fact, that when Google fed it a series of coding interview questions, its answers would have qualified it for an entry-level engineering position with annual compensation of $183,000. But Saša Slankamenac, Architect at Dariel Software, doesn’t agree…