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With enormous potential to better human lives, the dawn of the connected technological age has placed telecommunications companies at the foreground of advancement of society. The onus is on companies within the 4IR value chain to take the lead in ensuring that the...

Having adequate levels of education and digital skills capacity and capability is pivotal in ensuring that South Africa maximizes the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). However, this is a major challenge that South Africa faces while trying to meet...

The term technology is wide and far reaching – it refers to a plethora of things.  It can refer to manufacturing technologies, process technologies, and building technologies, for example. This article focuses on the technology that is today and for the...

The latest Strategy Analytics Global Mobile Workforce Forecast Update predicts that the mobile workforce will be 1.87 billion strong by 2022 – over 40% of the world’s total number of workers. That is close to 2 billion people who will need to be constantly connected...

Dark Fibre Africa sees fifth-generation (5G) wireless broadband networks as a big growth opportunity as the infrastructure needed to power these networks will require extensive fibre backhaul to connect a much denser network of base stations. DFA CEO, Thinus...

Wearable technologies offer enormous potential to a wide range of industries – provided they make use of fast, high-quality connectivity. When wearable technologies first began to enter the mainstream, the professional view was that they were mere novelties or...

The idea of wearable technology has been with us since at least as far back as the original Star Trek TV show and films like Forbidden Planet. However, as often happens in science-fiction, it eventually becomes a reality in some shape and form, and the concept of...