Maureen Costello, VP for UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa at Google Cloud, with Discovery founder and group CEO Adrian Gore. Google’s Johannesburg Cloud Region is expected to contribute $90.6 billion (R1.7 trillion) in additional gross economic output and support almost 315 000 jobs in SA by 2030. This, as African businesses accelerate the adoption of…
Universities around the world – and in South Africa – are having an identity crisis, and generative AI is the trigger. More than three years after ChatGPT walked into the lecture hall, the debate has moved well past cheating. In a recent piece in New York magazine, a Columbia undergraduate boasted of using AI to…
Steve Jobs famously declared that touchscreens on laptops were “ergonomically terrible” and simply “don’t work.” For over a decade, Apple stood firmly by that philosophy, steering users who wanted a touch interface toward the iPad. However, the company has apparently changed its tune. Read: Rocket Lab acquiring Iridium for $8 billion to challenge Starlink A…
Left to right: Shareholder Mutapa Investment Fund, represented by Mr. Tinashe Yafele (Head of Energy and Trading); Powertel Board Chairperson: Mrs. Miriam Chahuruva; Powertel Acting Managing Director: Mr. Willard Nyagwande; Paratus Group CCO: Mr. Martin Cox. Powertel Communications and Paratus Zimbabwe announce today that the first phase of their landmark cross-border fiber project is now…
From left, shareholder Mutapa Investment Fund, represented by Tinashe Yafele (head of energy and trading); Powertel board chair Miriam Chahuruva; Powertel acting MD Willard Nyagwande; and Paratus Group chief commercial officer Martin Cox Powertel Communications and Paratus Zimbabwe have announced that the first phase of their cross-border fibre project is now live and carrying traffic…
Meta has quietly soft-launched a new standalone mobile application called Pocket, a text-to-game creative platform designed around the emerging development trend of “vibe coding.” The application empowers users to build, play, and share interactive mini-games and digital experiences entirely through generative AI prompts; no coding knowledge required. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday:…
There is a growing demand for hybrid cyber security skills, according to digital tech professionals. Cyber security and digital technology specialists say there is a growing demand for hybrid cyber security talent – people who can connect cyber security to business strategy, communicate risk clearly and guide decision-making – in addition to a general shortage…
BlackBerry didn’t lose because it ignored ordinary customers. It lost while it was winning them over. Its cheap prepaid data plan, launched by Vodacom in December 2008, opened BlackBerry to millions of South Africans who couldn’t afford a monthly contract. Then Apple built a general-purpose phone on infrastructure that already existed, with an ecosystem BlackBerry…
Many contact centres are moving to cloud-based solutions and opex models. (Image source: 123RF) South Africa’s contact centre industry is growing fast, and BPO services are looking to agile, reliable cloud platforms to help them scale up. So says Nazeer Adam, founder and CEO of wholesale telecoms provider iMobility, whose unified multi-tenant, redundant and extremely…
Enrico Ferigolli Pick n Pay has switched on an AI shopping companion called Penny inside its asap! app, and in this episode of the TechCentral Show, retail executive for omnichannel Enrico Ferigolli takes editor Duncan McLeod through what it does and why it matters. Built on Google’s Gemini models, Penny lets customers build a grocery…
