Imagine this: your Wi-Fi router knows when you’ve fallen down the stairs, whether you’re having trouble breathing and exactly how many times you’ve visited the loo today. It can also detect when your teenager is sneaking out at night and monitor your elderly parents’ daily routine from across the country. Most unsettling of all, it…
Risk Insights had a deal with the JSE to use AI-powered rating tools to advance ESG reporting for listed companies. The dispute between Risk Insights and the JSE is intensifying, with both parties giving conflicting accounts over the status of a contractual relationship. The disagreement comes amid scrutiny of Risk Insights founder Anushka Bogdanov’s claimed…
Fintechs choose cloud technologies in the hopes that the efficiency and scalability of cloud computing will give them a competitive advantage. But cloud adoption is no silver bullet. If done incorrectly, a migration to the cloud can cause costs to balloon instead of decreasing them, leading to frustration and even lost revenue. Kinetic Skunk is…
Thando Gumede stands next to her robot tutor invention, Iris. As the topic of linguistic diversity in teaching becomes hotly debated, a local innovator has developed a robot tutor that can “master” subjects in 11 of the country’s official languages. Iris, as the robot is known, is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robot tutor that aims…
South Africa’s oldest internet exchange point operator, INX-ZA, has announced a plan to upgrade its infrastructure using high-performance routers from Nokia that offer throughput of up to 400Gbit/s each. INX-ZA, which forms part of the Internet Service Providers’ Association – an industry body that represents most of South Africa’s ISP community – will deploy 400GE…
KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, has released its latest research paper “Financial Sector Threats Report,” uncovering critical insights into the escalating cybersecurity crisis facing the global financial sector. The report shows that financial institutions face a perfect storm of AI-enhanced attacks, credential theft and supply chain vulnerabilities that pose…
The Competition Tribunal has given the green light to a transaction that should help advance a proposed plan to list Cell C on the JSE. The regulator on Thursday said it has given its blessing, without conditions, to a transaction that will see Cell C buying back its contract customer base from its largest shareholder,…
Blue Label holds a non-controlling 49.5% stake in Cell C. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) The Competition Tribunal has unconditionally approved the proposed merger in which Cell C will acquire Comm Equipment Company (CEC) from The Prepaid Company (TPC). This, after the Competition Commission last week recommended that the Competition Tribunal approve the deal without conditions….
JSE CIO Tebalo Tsaoeli Changing the JSE’s operating cycle from the current nine hours (9am-5pm on weekdays) to 24/7 trading would require changes to the local bourse’s operating model to account for the technological resources currently not available after hours, according to JSE CIO Tebalo Tsaoeli. Business Day in July reported (paywall) that the JSE…
Enea Operator. Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) today announced a contract to deploy a new TETRA land mobile radio communications network for one of Poland’s leading energy suppliers, Enea Operator. The solution will provide reliable and secure voice and data communication between personnel, optimise power grid management and enhance service reliability for 2.5 million residents across…
