Smart home revenues will exceed $57 million by 2024, up from $18 million in 2019; driven by smart security solutions. Data from Juniper’s new research, Smart Homes: Strategic Opportunities, Business Models & Competitive Landscape 2019-2024, found the ‘Do It For Me’ model, with vendors offering advice, installation, maintenance and cloud storage on monthly/yearly subscriptions, is […]
Read MoreIt is only 100 days since I took up the post of VP for Africa at Oracle, but already it is clear why the continent is such a priority for the company, and why it is considered a land of opportunity in the tech space. Consolidation of Modernisation Africa is seeing huge population growth, and […]
Read MoreHuawei and the African Union have signed through Amb. Thomas Kwesi Quartey, the Deputy Chair Person of the African Union Commission and Philippe Wang, Huawei’s Vice-President for the Northern African region, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to consolidate their collaboration and establish the necessary arrangements to ensure an effective cooperation on ICT matters. The main […]
Read MoreTwo organisations in the private and public sector of Nigeria’s technology industry have advocated for the deployment of technology in the nation’s tourism and travel space as a panacea for boosting businesses in the tourism and travel sector. In two separate keynote address delivered at the Maiden Edition of Tourism and Technology Summit held in […]
Read MoreMainOne, West Africa’s premier connectivity and data centre solutions provider is playing a role in providing support towards the capacity development of Nigerian youths with the successful completion of the second batch of its Bright Minds Graduate Trainee Programme. The 2-month intensive training session was deliberately designed to groom recent Nigerian graduates into highly skilled […]
Read MoreNon-governmental organisations (NGOs) would better achieved the objectives of their focus areas if the huge data at their disposals are effectively collected and analyse. Seamfix, a data solution management company that provides industry software solutions to address data capture and identity management, across various sectors of the economy made this observation at a seminar organised […]
Read MoreThe United States has temporarily eased trade restrictions on China’s Huawei to minimize disruption for its customers, a move the founder of the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker said meant little because it was already prepared for U.S. action. A Huawei store is seen at a commercial area in Wuhan, Hubei province, China March 30, […]
Read MoreThe Trump administration on Thursday officially added China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to a trade blacklist, immediately enacting restrictions that will make it extremely difficult for the telecom giant to do business with U.S. companies. The Commerce Department issued a rule, promised on Wednesday, putting Huawei and 68 affiliates in more than two dozen countries […]
Read MorePresident Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms posing a national security risk, paving the way for a ban on doing business with China’s Huawei, three U.S. officials familiar with the plan told Reuters. The order, which will not name specific […]
Read MoreThe Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Pantami, has challenged Nigeria to refocus its economy in tandem with global economic growth. Pantami said Nigeria is part of the “hyperconnected world” of the internet community in which “data is the most valuable asset”. He said the new economic reality “poses a […]
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