240 ShopriteX, the innovation arm of the Shoprite Group, has launched Pixie, an AI-powered shopping assistant inside the Sixty60 app — starting with Xtra Savings Plus members. Pixie is a personalised recommendation…
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Modernising legacy systems – without the downtime
183 Across industries, critical operations still run on longstanding platforms. Core banking engines, policy administration systems, trade platforms and public sector registries continue to process transactions reliably, underpin compliance and hold decades…
Why South Africa’s EV market is going nowhere slowly
184 Audi South Africa’s Asif Hoosen South Africa’s electric vehicle market is failing to grow and Audi says import taxes and a lack of consumer incentives are largely to blame, with the…
Why South Africa’s EV market is going nowhere slowly
174 Audi South Africa’s Asif Hoosen South Africa’s electric vehicle market is failing to grow and Audi says import taxes and a lack of consumer incentives are largely to blame, with the…
Major boost for Starlink
208 The US Federal Communications Commission is set to approve rule revisions this month to ease power limits on satellite spectrum use, giving a major boost to space-based broadband services such as…
M-KOPA’s 2025 impact: women at the heart of digital inclusion
213 For millions of South Africans, access to opportunity is still determined by access to tools, particularly smartphones and digital financial services that allow for participation in the modern economy. M-KOPA South…
Africa switches on as Europe dims the lights
179 Daily satellite observations have revealed a continued nighttime brightening globally due to artificial lighting, with important regional variations including a surge in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia alongside a deliberate dimming…
MVNOs take centre stage in legislative shake-up
230 Dominic Cull South Africa’s burgeoning mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) space is set to take centre stage as parliament discusses proposed amendments to the country’s most important piece of ICT sector…
Why Apple is sitting pretty
190 The consensus a year ago was that Apple had fumbled the AI moment. Apple Intelligence launched late, shipped half-baked and the promised “new Siri” has been delayed for years. And yet,…
ICT sector BEE code under the microscope as Starlink circles
185 The B-BBEE ICT Sector Council has launched a formal review of the 2016 ICT sector code and published an updated framework governing equity equivalent investment programmes (EEIPs) – the very mechanism…