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Meet Penny, Pick n Pay's new AI shopping companion
Pick n Pay's asap! app is adding Penny, a Gemini-powered assistant that builds your basket by conversation.
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@techcentral 4 hours ago
The hidden risks of fragmented IT and unenforced SLAs
ITC Systems offers a complimentary IT and cybersecurity assessment for South African businesses.
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Why AI-powered customer experience will decide South Africa's festive retail winners
This festive season, fast and helpful customer service may matter as much as discounts, writes CM.com's James Bayhack.
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Vodacom targets satellite-to-phone service in South Africa next year
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub says AST SpaceMobile is the likely partner, and that the service won't work on 2G and 3G phones.
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@techcentral 6 hours ago
Vodacom eyes SA and Kenya for AI data centre hubs after Egypt
Vodacom Group CEO Joosub has put a price on the Egyptian venture and says South Africa and Kenya are likely to follow.
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South Africa's first new nuclear reactors could be online by 2036
Government will publish its evidence-based case for 5.2GW of nuclear power at the end of November.
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Traditional QA undermines modern customer experience
Contact centres still judge customer experience on a fraction of calls, and it shows, says Telviva's Martie de Beer.
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@techcentral 10 hours ago
You do not have a data estate. You have copies of one
Every extract, warehouse load, import and vendor feed is another copy of the same data – stored again, secured differently and billed monthly under a name nobody has given it yet.
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One festival, nine stages: what to expect at Africa Tech Festival
In November, Cape Town hosts the first Africa Tech Festival built as a single, connected programme. The 29th edition runs at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 17-19 November 2026, with VIP and partner events from 16 November. The festival began life in 1997 as AfricaCom. Over the last 29 years, the conversations on [...]
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Comsol's 5G network pricing comes into view
Home-Connect and Afrihost charge the same prices and apply the same fair-use limits on Comsol's new network.
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Safaricom ruling tripped default clauses in Vodacom's loans
Vodacom has since secured waivers from its lenders, but its appeal against the ruling has yet to be heard.
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Egypt's biggest data centre will have Vodacom money behind it
Vodacom's Egyptian unit will co-invest through a joint venture with Elsewedy Electric and Cassava Technologies.
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Vodacom gets prepaid growing again as MTN's shrinks
Vodacom South Africa's prepaid revenue accelerated in the second quarter, and its margin hit its highest level since FY2023.
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Egypt's biggest data centre will have Vodacom money behind it
Vodacom's Egyptian unit will co-invest through a joint venture with Elsewedy Electric and Cassava Technologies.
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