Vehicle tracking solutions firm Tracker has launched its Sayf personal safety and tracking app. Vehicle tracking solutions company Tracker has unveiled Sayf, a personal safetyand tracking app. Tracker’s Sayf app joins other personal safety apps in the market. These include Eyerus, Netstar’s Companion app, the CrimeSpotter app, as well as crime-fighting safety app Namola. The…
The department of communications & digital technologies is under fire for allegedly lying to parliament about the state of discussions with broadcasters to resolve the legal impasse over digital television migration. The department claimed in parliament on Friday, 12 September that it was collaborating “regularly” with broadcasters regarding the broadcast digital migration project, and the…
CIVH is the parent company of fibre network operators Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa. Community Investment Ventures Holdings (CIVH), the parent company of fibre network operators Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), has posted a loss. This emerged when JSE-listed Remgro, which owns CIVH, today announced its annual financial results for the year ended 30…
Newly appointed MultiChoice Group CEO David Mignot. Image: (c) Aurelien Pierron MultiChoice Group announced a raft of executive leadership changes on Monday. Following the conclusion of its acquisition by France’s Groupe Canal+, the JSE-listed pay-television group has a new CEO, David Mignot, who replaces incumbent Calvo Mawela. Many are asking who Mignot is and what…
Five national government departments have returned to National Treasury’s eTenders Portal to advertise their technology needs. After several weeks of ICT opportunities on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal being dominated by state-owned entities and municipal-level requirements, five national departments return to advertise their technology needs. The Department of Defence opens the issue with its wish to…
Despite important progress in diversity, the payments industry continues to face a persistent gender gap. These statistics are not abstract, they directly affect how talent is developed, how innovation is nurtured and how the payments ecosystem evolves. Addressing this gap is both a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative. Across tech and payments, women continue…
AGPM was built for a different era of IT. Microsoft’s Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) tool is officially being retired. For IT leaders dependent on Active Directory and Group Policy Objects, this is an opportunity to redefine how policies are controlled, audited and secured, turning the loss of AGPM into a catalyst for better governance….
Not every organisation that has migrated to the cloud has reaped the rewards promised in terms of faster development and deployment cycles, simplified infrastructure management, and most importantly, a reduction in costs. Some are going as far as repatriating their infrastructure back into on-premises environments, perhaps because they understand it better and they find they…
Abu Dhabi’s TII and NVIDIA Launch Middle East’s First Joint ‘AI & Robotics’ NVAITC Research Lab (Photo: AETOSWire) The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has joined forces with NVIDIA, the world leader in accelerated computing and AI, to launch the Middle East’s first Joint…
US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a staggering US$100 000 fee on new H-1B visas is a spectacular own goal for America and its technology industry. It is a hammer blow to the very sector that built Silicon Valley’s dominance. For South Africa, though, the move opens a small but potentially meaningful window: an…
