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By Guido Verweij The whole notion of what today’s hyperconnected travellers want, and what they value, has changed. While cost, choice and convenience are still significant, booking decisions are now based on the experience. Right from […]
Ecobank has been able to drastically improve its business analytics needs with the help of Microsoft Power BI. The bank, which has operations in 33 countries across the continent, chose the solution due to it being […]
Oracle held its Impact Technology Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, an event geared towards driving awareness of emerging technologies and their impact on business. “Emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and […]
By Eyal Benishti Artificial intelligence is something we continue to see discussed – Elon Musk believes it will be the downfall of humanity, many are concerned its implementation could leave thousands out of jobs, and some […]
Opera and Worldreader, the global nonprofit that believes everyone can be a reader, have announced ahead of the International Literacy Day that African mobile users have spent more than 4 millions hours of reading books […]
MultiChoice recently completed a 4K/UHD streaming test of the last four matches of the FIFA World Cup on the DStv Now platform. The test posed a number of technical challenges, including achieving frame rates of […]
Findings from RSA’s recent survey in the UK showed that 28 percent of customers have elected to boycott companies that have been shown to mishandle personal data. RSA is a global cybersecurity leader with consulting and technology […]
As part of the Kenya Resilient Arid Lands Partnership for Integrated Development (Kenya RAPID) under the coordination of the Millennium Water Alliance (MWA), IBM scientists in Kenya have unveiled a water management service platform (WMaaSP) […]
The claim that cloud computing is radically transforming the way organisations (both big and small) do business, for better, agile and faster results, has become fact. However, there are still numerous scares denting the confidence […]
Unmanned systems are finding a growing number of applications in the maritime sector, and have the potential to make a significant contribution to safety and risk management, according to an industry report, Safety and Shipping Review […]
Equity Group has launched its fintech subsidiary, Finserve, signaling a future defined by disruptive innovation beyond the Group’s current financial services. Finserve will operate as an autonomous commercial enterprise, delivering solutions not just for Equity […]
By Kaspersky Team When you visit a website, you can open your computer to a lot more danger than you might think. All sites load their own content, some load ads served by an ad network, […]
Industrial and energy enterprises, as well as transport and logistics companies, have different opinions regarding the negative effects of cyberattacks on their industrial networks according to Kaspersky Lab’s State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2018’ (ICS) survey. […]
When it comes to the school holidays, most parents have mixed feelings: Relieved to have a break from the routine of early school drop offs, homework and extra murals, as well as dreading having to […]
IRONSCALES, the automated phishing prevention, detection and response platform, has announced the results of a recent survey of security professionals at Infosecurity London, Europe’s largest information security conference drawing 15,000 attendees from around the world. […]
By Geoffrey Shimanyula Africa’s Internet life began as an outpost on the world network. Any Internet user in Nairobi calling up, say, a website in Kampala would trigger a data signal that travelled all the […]
DStv subscribers are in for a super treat as the new football season begins this second weekend of August. MultiChoice, through DStv, is set to deliver some of the most action-packed football leagues in the world beginning Friday, […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving a paradigm shift in how nations prepare for the digital economy and could almost double the value of the global digital economy to $23 trillion by 2025 from $12.9 trillion […]
After more than 6 months of work trying to comprehensive look at the SamSam ransomware, its peculiar attack method, and its sky-high ransom demands, SophosLab researchers have released their report on the malware. A post […]
Global smartphone shipments declined by 2% annually in Q2 2018 according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service. The top 10 brands now capture 79% of the market thereby leaving over 600 brands to […]
Businesses around the world have been deploying an early adopter version of Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service, which becomes generally available today. The service allows organizations to easily build blockchain networks to drive more secure and efficient […]
Sophos has announced Sophos Intercept X for Server, a next-generation server protection with predictive deep learning technology that provides constantly evolving security against cyber threats. Sophos’ deep learning neural networks are trained on hundreds of […]
Large shipping losses have declined by more than a third (38%) over the past decade, according to Allianz’s Global Corporate & Specialty SE’s (AGCS) Safety & Shipping Review 2018, with this downward trend continuing in 2017. […]
Visa, selected as the official payment services partner of FIFA, has released an analysis of spending inside the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia stadiums from the opening match on June 14 through the semi-finals on […]
Whether your focus is connectivity infrastructure, disruptive technologies, digital services or ICT strategy, the 2018 edition of AfricaCom – set for November 3 to 15 at the CTICC in Cape Town, South Africa – will be the […]
US President Donald Trump is the most followed world leader on Twitter, with 52 million followers on his @realDonaldTrump account which has more than doubled since taking office on January 20, 2017, according to the […]
Malware sophistication is increasing as adversaries begin to weaponize cloud services and evade detection through encryption, used as a tool to conceal command-and-control activity. To reduce adversaries’ time to operate, security professionals said they will increasingly […]
The key barriers to entry in the IoT space – battery power and cost – have fallen away with the arrival in South Africa of revolutionary low-cost, low-power solutions. “While machine to machine (M2M) solutions […]
While in still in campus, he had a lucky break and was employed by KenGen as a procurement officer. But since the business and entrepreneurship bug had bitten him much earlier in life, he always […]
Joel Chacha joined Ogilvy PR as an Account Director from Tell-Em exactly one year ago. Chacha’s move followed the departure of Cosmas Butunyi, the Lenana Road-based PR firm’s former Account Director who had left in […]
ESET researchers have discovered a new family of Android RATs (Remote Administration Tools) abusing the Telegram protocol for command and control, as well as data exfiltration. Investigating what at first seemed like increased activity on […]
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