A new ITU standard states that compliance with the Paris Agreement will require the ICT industry to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45 per cent from 2020 to 2030. The standard will support ICT [c]
Kaspersky has announced a new partnership with Arctic Security. Through this collaboration, Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds will be available out-of-the-box, on Arctic Security’s Arctic Hub platform. These feeds will help organisations with Security Operation Centers, [c]
Kenyan industries are set to benefit by saving a minimum of 30% on their current cost of grid power consumption following a partnership between Distributed Power Africa (DPA) and Canadian Solar company. Currently, Kenyan companies [c]
Google has issued grants worth US$1.93 million to media related projects across Africa, Middle East and Turkey. Among the beneficiaries is Ghana’s news portal, GhanaWeb, which has won the first Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation [c]
Orange will be the first global telecom operator to integrate satellite-based terabitscale O3b mPOWER communications system in its network, to support the growing demand for connectivity in Africa. As part of the deal, Orange, with [c]
Vivo has unveiled the third generation of its APEX range of smartphone, the APEX 2020. APEX 2020 builds on the success of its previous generations to present the user with more advanced feature. APEX 2020 [c]
The Internet Society, together with its partners, is set to organize the Ethiopia Internet Development Conference 2020 as a multi-stakeholder event to enable the local community prepare for this new era and start developing the [c]
Microsoft, through its Microsoft for Start-ups initiative, has announced the launch of its Global Social Entrepreneurship programme at the Sankalp Africa Summit 2020. The Global Social Entrepreneurship programme has benefits aimed at elevating start-ups addressing [c]
The German Bundesliga has kicked-off its Youth Ambassador Program in Kenya to develop a group of 35 young adults aged 18-25 into self-asserted community leaders as part of a long-term commitment to grow football internationally. [c]
Sophos has released the SophosLabs report on Cloud Snooper, a sophisticated attack that uses a unique combination of techniques to allow malware on servers to communicate freely with its command and control servers through firewalls. The [c]
The government of Rwanda has signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Eastern Ventures, a local Special Purpose Vehicle in partnership with Vitronic, a firm based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to help improve road safety [c]
By Leonid Grustniy We reveal the best settings for protecting your profile from hackers, haters, and spammers. Every day, millions worldwide watch short-form videos on TikTok and share their own clips. Some do it to [c]
He first gained major recognition with his film Zilizala which won Best Indigenous Language Movie (Swahili) at the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards 2017. In 2019, he got his biggest break yet in television when [c]
Rain, a South Africa-based mobile broadband provider, has announced that it has partnered with Huawei to build a 5G transport network using Huawei’s optical cross-connect (OXC) and 200G solution, leveraging Huawei’s latest all-optical switching product, [c]
Sage, the vendor of cloud business management solutions, has appointed three Authorised Sage Distributors in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), East Africa and West African regions to serve as valued-added distribution partners for its [c]
Summary: It’s easy to see the appeal of the virtual financial advisor business model. You get to work wherever you can put up a laptop and connect to the Internet. You can fill your practice [c]
Libya’s Assaray Trade and Investment Bank (ATIB) has selected Temenos Infinity and Temenos Transact to power its digital transformation. Temenos’ cloud-native, cloud-agnostic banking platform will enable the bank to quickly launch new digital products for [c]
The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has operationalized a new parking management system at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). Managed by KAPS, the new system, aimed at improving passenger experience at the airport, comes ahead [c]
IBM Security has released the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020 which highlights how cybercriminals’ techniques have evolved after decades of access to tens of billions of corporate and personal records and hundreds of thousands [c]
The seventh edition of Sankalp Africa Summit, expected to engage over 1,000 different stakeholders from across the development sector ecosystem, to discuss, define, and drive forward the critical levers of entrepreneurial success for the Sustainable [c]
GeoPoll has released select TV viewership data from Kenya for October through December of 2019. The report represents a small portion of the data collected daily by GeoPoll on trends in TV and radio audiences. [c]
After unveiling its new device, the Samsung Galaxy S20, on February 11, 2020, Samsung has announced that the phone is now available for pre-order. The Galaxy S20 has various unique features including 100X Space Zoom. [c]
PayTV firm StarTimes Kenya has introduced six additional entertainment channels on its platform with a key focus on enriched documentary, sports and entertainment content. The introduction of the six channels which include National Geographic Channel, National Geographic [c]
Safaricom walked away with two category awards from this year’s Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards which recognise and showcase companies and individuals that are driving innovation in the evolving mobile industry. The Kenya-based telco was voted [c]
Uber users in Kenya will from this week have the option to receive a four-digit PIN code to provide to their driver before starting a trip. This added layer of verification can help ensure users [c]
Altron Bytes Document Solutions (ABDS) has announced the appointment of Sales Divisional Executive, Warren Mande to MD of Altron Arrow from March 1, 2020. Both operating companies are subsidiaries of JSE-listed technology company Altron. Warren has had [c]
We are living in a world of brands, irrespective of the reviews, we believe in brands. But do we even realize that these companies have excellent branding strategies for their promotion? The brand name carries [c]
Organizations that are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies in finance and operations are growing their annual profits 80 percent faster, according to a new study from Enterprise Strategy Group and Oracle. The global study, Emerging Technologies: [c]
By Willie Oosthuysen IOT is expected to drive the proliferation of connected devices from about a billion plus today to over 50 billion in the next decade. While the Internet of Things (IoT) may still [c]
The elusive and wildly popular Burning Man Festival, a weeklong community and art celebration held annually in the Nevada desert, launches its official ticket sales on February 26, 2020. However, Kaspersky experts have uncovered a [c]
Carbon, the pan-African digital financial services company, has introduced a USSD service to its platform, making it even easier for individuals that have little or no access to smartphones or the internet, to access the [c]
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