Austria has opened a police station in the house where Adolf Hitler was born in the town of Braunau am Inn. It follows years of controversy about what to do with the 17th-Century former inn, where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in April 1889. The building has now been substantially refurbished and its facade…
Orange is backing a new 20,000-kilometer subsea cable that will connect Nigeria and almost 20 other countries across Africa and Europe, as demand for data and cloud services rises across the continent. The project, called Via Africa, is being developed by a consortium led by Orange. It will run across the Atlantic corridor and is…
AI adoption across the jobs value chain is causing a seismic shift in the education-to-jobs pipeline, with students, teachers and companies changing their behaviours. Speaking at a public sector CEOs roundtable at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday, Du Min, vice president of global public sector and president of higher education at Huawei, said…
Microsoft South Africa CEO Vukani Mngxati Microsoft South Africa CEO Vukani Mngxati believes government is missing out on the opportunities presented by the AI revolution because cloud adoption in the public sector is lagging the private sector. Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on the sidelines of the Johannesburg leg of the Microsoft AI Tour…
Domains.co.za has once again set the standard for local innovation by launching South Africa’s first Link in Bio tool. This affordable and clever solution empowers social media users to share all their essential links through one branded domain name. Beyond that, it can also double as a mini one-page website that doesn’t need any additional…
Identity is one of the most under-secured and over-exploited layers in cyber security. Identity has been the backbone of enterprise IT for more than 25 years, yet it remains one of the most under-secured and over-exploited layers in cyber security. While networks, endpoints and cloud security have gone through cycles of reinvention, the identity layer…
Michael Langeveld, HPE. Modern retailers must move faster, think smarter and put customer experience at the centre of everything they do. And in an industry that runs on data, this means bringing information closer to retail operations. Speaking at an HPE and Microsoft retail executive event at Chefs Warehouse in Cape Town yesterday, Stephan Steyn,…
Remember walking into a grocery store 15 years ago? You’d see a mix of people at the till, some with cash pulled from purses or wallets, others with cheques or debit cards, often leading to clunky delays at checkout. There was no tap-to-pay, no mobile wallets and no seamless apps linking bank accounts to phone…
Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and other climate hazards, highlighting the urgent need for global action to address the issue. That’s according to a report released on Friday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford University…
Yinchuan, China — Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Wednesday declared that Somalia is positioning itself as a strategic hub connecting Africa, the Arab world, and Asia, as he addressed the opening ceremony of the 7th China-Arab States Expo in Yinchuan, northwest China. In a keynote speech highlighting Somalia’s development vision and investment potential,…
