Author: Chris Anu
In this episode of ITWeb TV, serial tech entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig Jr, who was involved in organisations like Project Isizwe, Mxit, iBurst and Herotel, discusses the successes and failures he has faced as a businessman and how he learnt from them. Knott-Criag also talks about his new venture fibertime and how it’s planning to bridge the digital divide. #Fibertime #Internet #entrepreneurship #digitaldivideFibertime Group, the pay-as-you-go fibre provider with roots in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch, is targeting more South African townships, with its next destination being Mamelodi.To scale up the business, it plans to list the company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in…
Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today, given its “interdependencies” on other parts of the company, the head of Chrome testified. “Chrome today represents 17 years of collaboration between the Chrome people” and the rest of Google, Parisa Tabriz, the browser’s GM, said on Friday as part of the US justice department’s antitrust case in Washington federal court. “Trying to disentangle that is unprecedented.” Some of the product’s features, such as its safe browsing mode or a system that notifies users if their password has…
The High Court in Pretoria set aside SANParks’ decision to award a 10-year tender to Gijima. IT services firm Gijima is readying to file court papers to appeal the ruling that saw the company lose a R1 billion ICT tender, which had been awarded to it by South African National Parks (SANParks).This, after the High Court in Pretoria recently reviewed and set aside SANParks’ decision to award a 10-year tender to Gijima.The court found the tender process to be flawed and ruled in favour of rival Datacentrix, which had previously held the contract and challenged the recent award.The court then…
New GX Capital, one of the principal investors in Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa parent CIVH, recently announced it was launching a R2.4-billion clean-tech investment fund in partnership with RMB Ventures. To unpack the details of the new fund and why it’s being established, New GX Capital founder and CEO Khudusela Pitje joined TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod in the latest episode of the TechCentral Show for a wide-ranging conversation. In the interview, Pitje chatted about the fund – called the Airnegize Capital Fund – and its plans to invest in renewable energy and water and gas infrastructure across Africa. New…
Panellists engage with delegates about Africa’s opportunities – and challenges – in cementing its digital transformation agenda. Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busisiwe Mavuso has warned that numerous issues undermine Africa’s ability to leverage its status as the fastest-growing population in the world and attract investment.Mavuso was part of a panel discussion at the 45th annual Southern Africa Telecommunications Association (SATA) conference, held this week in Johannesburg.Despite the many aspects in its favour, if Africa doesn’t “have its house in order” it doesn’t make sense to try to position the continent as an attractive growth market for investment, she noted.Mavuso…
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan One of Intel’s biggest missteps over the past decade was the failure to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the fast-growing market for artificial intelligence chips. During his first earnings conference call with analysts as Intel’s new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan outlined how Intel hopes to change that, but warned: “This is not a quick fix.” Tan said he would comb through Intel’s existing products to sharpen them for emerging trends in the AI market such as robotics and agents that can carry out tasks for human users. Intel has a long history of building important new silicon developments…
Smangele Nkosi, GM of Cisco South Africa, and Dr Corrin Varady, education analyst and CEO of IDEA. In light of International Girls in ICT Day, South African firms are ramping up their digital skills training initiatives for girls, to ensure they are not left out of the country’s digital economy.Countries across the globe yesterday celebrated Girls in ICT Day, which was declared by the International Telecommunication Union on 8 April 2011, to encourage young women to pursue careers in information and communication technologies.Hundreds of events took place worldwide, aimed at inspiring a new generation of girls to explore the exciting…
Khusela Diko The chair of parliament’s portfolio committee on communications, Khusela Diko, has taken Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso to task over comments she made suggesting IT procurement in government should be decentralised. Diko’s comments were in response to an opinion piece penned by Mavuso and published by TechCentral last week. In the article, Mavuso argued that efforts to reform the embattled State IT Agency (Sita) – which is mandated by law to procure IT products and services for government exclusively – have failed, largely as a result of parties “politicising the matter”. The ability of government to…
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MTN Group said it has fallen prey to a “cybersecurity incident” that resulted in “unauthorised access to personal information of some MTN customers in certain markets”. In the disclosure, which came late on Thursday evening, MTN said it has found no evidence that any of its critical infrastructure has been compromised. Neither have MTN’s core platforms or services been compromised. “Our core network, billing systems and financial services infrastructure remain secure and fully operational,” it said. Our core network, billing systems and financial services infrastructure remain secure and fully operational “An unknown third-party has claimed to have accessed data linked…