Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation shows sweet tooth for IoT with efficiency-boosting SAP implementation
Leading sugar, renewable energy company deploys IoT solution integrated to SAP Leonardo to improve logistics, water management.
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Sony Corp is closing its Beijing smartphone plant, a spokesman said on Thursday, as the Japanese electronics giant cuts costs in an attempt to make the money-losing handset business profitable from next year.
The business is one of Sony…
Facebook Inc on Wednesday banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism, a move that drew qualified approval from New Zealand where a massacre of 50 people in mosques was live streamed earlier this mon…
Liquid Telecom Kenya, part of the pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, and Nokia have announced a two-year partnership to upgrade their existing fiber network to support OTN/DWDM technology with an initial network capacity of 500G.
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Gay dating app Grindr is up for sale by its Chinese parent company, Kunlun Group, media reports say.
The move comes after US authorities expressed concern that the firm's ownership of the US-based firm is a national security risk, sourc…
Collaboration with Philippines’ public weather provider enables faster early warning and new weather data for the country and the broader region
Earth Networks announced today the completion of the Philippines’ first nationwide severe w…
Toshiba’s New Semiconductor Company Will Strengthen Solution Proposals and Bring Greater Efficiency to R&D
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (TDSC) today announced the consolidation of two of its subsidiaries, Toshiba …
Xiaomi is back with another teaser of the foldable concept device it first showed off in January.
This time around, in a video posted to its Weibo account, the Chinese company showed off the device working in tablet mode and, after fold…
The Chinese company Huawei has been strongly criticised in a report by the body overseeing the security of its products in UK telecoms.
The report, issued by the National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, says it can provide…
Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, plans to roll out a commercial 5G mobile network by June, partly using Huawei technology despite the United States’ concerns the Chinese telecom giant’s equipment could be used for spyi…
Netflix Inc is testing a 250 rupee ($3.63) monthly subscription for mobile devices in India, the video streaming giant said, aiming to boost its presence in a price-sensitive market where data consumption on smartphones is surging.
Cali…
Harnessing the latest developments in AI technology, Taulia’s upgraded platform supports simplified, informed decision-making and strengthens the buyer-supplier relationships.
Taulia has upgraded its platform with a set of new world-…
(Reuters) - Spotify Technology SA said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Parcast, the third podcast company it is purchasing in two months, in an ongoing quest to transform itself into the Netflix of audio.
Spotify did not disclose terms …
The U.S. campaign against China’s Huawei is having little impact on the company’s sales and it is unlikely many countries will follow the United States in banning Huawei from building next-generation mobile networks, its rotating Chairman …
Today at Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, Adobe announced some enhancements to its Analytics Suite that are supposed to help marketers understand their customers more deeply, including a new tool to track the entire customer journey, and one to …
Huawei unveiled its brand new flagship phone — the P30 and the P30 Pro — at a press conference today in Paris. In many ways, this year’s update is a continuation of the P20 series — but everything has been upgraded. I played with both devi…
Meaningful conversations spark creative thinking at the Cape Town Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers
Marriott Hotels in partnership with TED, hosted its first TED Fellows Salon in Cape Town, South Africa, sparking conversations around Africa…
Ransomware attacks worldwide rose by 350 percent from 2016 to 2017, says a recent special report by SC Magazine sponsored by Cofense, a provider of intelligent phishing defence solutions.
“Security pros constantly invent better mousetra…
Top level 3-day conference on Skills development, Value chain approach, Circular economy & Finance, start-ups and digitalization
Due to the upbeat market development and an ever increasing interest in the Nigerian market, agrofood & pla…
By 2030, the number of sensors and devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to increase to about 125 billion worldwide
Intelligent Living Summit: GROHE (www.GROHE.com), Miele and Viessmann start cross-industry d…
Finland’s data protection ombudsman said on Thursday he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones had breached data rules after a report said the handsets sent information to China.
Nokia-branded mobile phones are developed under l…
The iPad mini is super enjoyable to use and is the best-sized tablet for everything but traditional laptop work. It’s very good and I’m glad Apple updated it.
Using Apple Pencil is aces on the smaller mini; don’t worry about the real …
Poland will fall behind the rest of Europe on 5G unless it makes regulatory changes, an Ericsson executive told Reuters, raising fresh concerns over the country’s plans as it considers excluding China’s Huawei from its 5G rollout.
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On the outskirts of Oslo, a row of Fiat 500es imported from California stand parked in the snow outside the Buddy Electric dealership, part of a global flow of pre-owned electric cars to Norway powered by green subsidies elsewhere in the w…
Apple has launched a new version of its wireless earphones that allows users to activate the virtual assistant Siri by voice alone.
It means that the assistant can now be reached without any buttons having to be pressed - users just utt…
Apple has just announced the second-generation AirPods.
The new AirPods are fitted with the H1 chip, which is meant to offer performance efficiencies, faster connect times between the pods and your devices and the ability to ask for …
Toyota Motor Corp and Suzuki Motor Corp on Wednesday said they planned to produce electric vehicles (EVs) and compact cars for each other to better compete with fast-changing technologies in the global auto industry.
The agreement follo…
Swedish carmaker Volvo hopes to reinforce its reputation for safety-first driving by installing cameras and sensors in its cars from the early 2020s, monitoring drivers for signs of being drunk or distracted and intervening to prevent acci…
EU antitrust regulators handed down a 1.49 billion euro ($1.69 billion) fine to Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, marking the company’s third penalty in two years.
Last year, the EU competit…
A group of MPs is calling for a tax on social media companies' profits, saying the firms are operating in "an online wild west".
Its report, which follows a year-long inquiry into the health impact of social media, says the industry sho…
One of the world's biggest aluminium producers has switched to manual operations at some smelting plants following a "severe" ransomware attack.
Hydro, which employs more than 35,000 people in 40 countries, says the attack began on Mond…
Staying ahead of today’s accelerated cybercrime trends requires adding artificial intelligence (AI) to an organisation’s network security strategy
As the threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly, it now includes increasingly sophist…
Facebook says it has deleted more than 1.5 million copies of the video of the mosque attacks in New Zealand in the first day after the incident.
In a tweet, it said that 1.2 million of those copies were blocked while they were being upl…
Apple has replied to claims by Spotify that App store policies gave it an "unfair advantage".
Spotify made its comments as it filed an official anti-trust complaint against Apple in Europe saying it "limited" consumer choice.
Apple t…
The government has been told there are "failings" in the way it is planning to protect the UK's critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks.
The warning came in a National Audit Office (NAO) assessment of the UK's national cyber-defence …
Tesla has launched its latest car, the Model Y, its second mass-market electric vehicle.
The car was unveiled at an event in Los Angeles. The firm will first release a long-range version of the vehicle with a price tag of $47,000 (£35,4…
The value of the number pi has been calculated to a new world record length of 31 trillion digits, far past the previous record of 22 trillion.
Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee from Japan, found the new digits with the help of the co…
Google is a tech powerhouse in many categories, including advertising. Today, as part of its efforts to improve how that ad business works, it provided an annual update that details the progress it’s made to shut down some of the more ne…
China’s customs authority has lifted its suspension on imports of Tesla’s Model 3, an official in the authority’s news department told Reuters on Thursday.
“We can confirm that the warning notice on Tesla has been canceled,” said the …
Facebook appears to be recovering from a more than 14-hour disruption to all of its products that left them mostly inaccessible across the world.
The company's main social network, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram…
Verizon Communications Inc beat rivals AT&T and Sprint in the race to launch the first fifth generation mobile services in two cities in the United States at an additional cost of $10 for customers with existing unlimited plans.
Users i…
The UK needs to tackle "bullying tactics by market leaders" and the other consequences of a lack of competition in the technology sector, according to a new report.
A six month review of the sector has concluded tech giants like Faceboo…
Children aged four to seven are being targeted in a new online video campaign from the National Crime Agency (NCA).
The series of videos called Jessie & Friends is intended to teach children how to keep themselves safe online, with a vi…
IBM has been accused of using Flickr photos for a facial-recognition project, without the full consent of people in the images.
The company extracted nearly one million photos from a dataset of Flickr images originally compiled by Yahoo…
A new tool for spectrum management makes wireless connectivity faster and more affordable, says Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
Washington, DC, 12 March 2019: Automated spectrum management databases and algorithms have reached a tipping point…
German industrial group Siemens filed the most patent applications in Europe last year, pushing China’s Huawei [HWT.UL] into second place, the European Patent Office said on Tuesday.
Siemens filed 2,493 patent applications in 2018, the …
The first details of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite have been revealed.
It's made by Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go.
Wizards Unite is an augmented reality game you play on your mobile phone, putting animation into real life view…
Global action is required to tackle the web's "downward plunge to a dysfunctional future", its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC.
He made the comments in an exclusive interview to mark 30 years since he submitted his proposa…
China is getting serious about the way live-streaming videos affect tens of millions of youngsters, so much so a top authority has proposed to tighten restrictions on underage use.
According to a report from the China Youth Daily, the C…
Security researchers have found dozens of companies inadvertently leaking sensitive corporate and customer data because staff are sharing public links to files in their Box enterprise storage accounts that can easily be discovered.
The …
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