TECHNOLOGY

Pan-African IT services company, Apotica, has successfully renewed its status as a Cisco Gold Partner in English West Africa. In May last year, Apotica became the first (and remains the only) IT solutions provider in Ghana to attain this highest Cisco certification. As a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, the company has again met the requirements for having the broadest range ...

Peter Beck is a space entrepreneur with a rocket and launch pad in New Zealand that has permission for flights “every 72 hours for the next 30 years”. The 25 satellites his firm Rocket Lab has launched include one from a US high school, which designed a spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of Jupiter. Mr Beck has no plans for ...

Mobile telecommunications giant, Vodafone Ghana, is offering its Fixed Broadband customers, four days of unlimited browsing during this Easter festive period. The special promotion dubbed Unlimited Internet, will provide Fixed Broadband (FBB) customers an opportunity to enjoy limitless browsing from Good Friday to Easter Monday, in addition to a free weekend browsing. It also offers FBB users an opportunity to ...

Russian state news channel Rossiya 24 has introduced a robot presenter for some of its bulletins. ‘Alex’ has already caused a stir, with some viewers complaining about his appearance and accusing him of peddling political propaganda. The robot was developed by Promobot in the city of Perm. His silicon head is modelled on the face of the company’s co-founder Alexei ...

A British man hailed as a hero for stopping a global cyber-attack that was threatening the NHS has pleaded guilty to US malware charges. Marcus Hutchins, 24, has pleaded guilty to two charges related to writing malware – or malicious software – court documents show. Writing on his website, Hutchins said he regretted his actions and accepted “full responsibility for ...

Each year, countries around the world – Africa, specifically, spend huge sums of money on mosquito control programmes and mosquito bite treatment. Amid several interventions meant to eliminate the deadly insect, there are concerns about the chemicals’ toxins that are released into the environment. There are even suggestions totally getting rid of mosquitoes will create imbalance in nature. So what ...

Apple’s next iPhone will be able to charge other Apple gadgets by placing them back-to-back with one another, according to a new report. A new investor note from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, seen by 9to5Mac , states that all three new iPhones in 2019 will support “bilateral wireless charging”. This means that users will be able to place wireless ...

Microsoft in partnership with Innovare Learning hosted a workshop with the purpose of demonstrating that the standards of both organizations are compliant with Ghana’s cybersecurity directive. The directive sets to ensure that institutions create a secure environment within cyberspace for the financial services industry. It is also to generate adequate trust and confidence in ICT systems as well as transactions ...

FinTechs in both the credit and pensions space have bemoaned the challenge of existing regulations governing some aspects of financial services transactions in the country. This, they believe is stifling growth within the sector and negatively impacting efforts being made to achieve financial inclusion. This was brought to the fore at a stakeholder forum co-hosted by the Ghana Technology Chamber ...

The CEO of IT Consortium Limited, Mr. Romeo Bugyei, has called for closer collaboration between government, regulatory bodies and FinTechs in Ghana to push informal pensions to citizens. He indicated that in order to achieve successful financial inclusion in the county, FinTechs must be supported to enable them efficiently deliver Digital Financial Services (DFS) to Ghanaians. He made this call ...