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Canon is thrilled to reveal the winner of its  Light in the Dark  themed Redline Challenge photography competition as  Piotr Skrzypiec  from Poland, now living in Slovenia, who wowed judges with his striking photo, Lost Highway. Piotr will receive over  €14,000 worth of Canon kit including the EOS R5 and RF lenses  to help take his craft to the next level along with a personal photography assignment and mentoring session with judge and Canon Ambassador,  Lorenz Holder . Also announced today are the outstanding shortlisted photos.   Commenting on his win, Piotr Skrzypiec said:   “It’s hard to describe how it feels - it is both a big surprise and a huge achievement, especially as when I entered, I submitted three pictures and discovered that all of them had been shortlisted. The prize is the best set of equipment I could imagine, and I can’t wait to get my hands on the Canon EOS R5. It looks like the perfect tool for the kind of pho...

Finnish mobile company HMD Global introduces three new Nokia phones to its refreshed portfolio and significantly expands its audio accessory range   Nokia XR20:   Football legend Roberto Carlos and world champion freestyler Lisa Zimouche pair up to give the new life-proof Nokia XR20 its toughest test yet .  Nokia 6310:  a new member to the Originals family, revamped for the modern day Nokia C30:  bigger and bolder in every direction, this C-series hero arrives with the largest screen and battery yet Audio accessories:  new Nokia audio accessories across four distinct new lines  bring quality you can trust  – Go, Micro, Comfort, and Clarity Watch the ‘Toughest test’  here.   HMD Global ,  the home of Nokia phones, today announces three new phones and a new audio portfolio. Built to survive anything life can throw at you, the  Nokia XR20  can withstand much more than you’ll ever demand of it. The  Nokia C30 , a her...

  Introducing the first ever life-proof Nokia phone, built to withstand life’s rough and tumble    Football legend Roberto Carlos and world champion freestyler Lisa Zimouche pair up to give the new life-proof Nokia XR20 its toughest test yet  Carlos repeatedly boots the new phone across a concrete gravel football pitch in Madrid, Spain and recreates his famous 1997 banana shot in ultimate crossbar challenge with the Nokia XR20   The 5G smartphone is   built to survive everything life throws at it: extreme temperatures from +55C to -22C, 1.8m drops, 1 hour under water, and more  Watch the ‘Toughest Test’  here Footballing sensation Roberto Carlos collides with HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, to reveal a brand-new life-proof  handset, the Nokia XR20.   From lab testing conditions to a football pitch, the brand-new 5G smartphone met its match when Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos and world freestyle champion Lisa Zimouche put it t...

  Vodacom South Africa and Nokia are working together to transform the operator’s nationwide optical transmission network through Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset hardware to deliver high capacity transmission. Through a recent field trial, the companies achieved the highest data transmission rates and performance across their live optical network, demonstrating a significant increase in transmission network capacity for Vodacom South Africa.    The optical transmission network allows the transference of data on different light frequencies in an optic fibre cable. The deployment of the Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch will  assist Vodacom South Africa in maintaining high quality data services across the country, to both address   the ongoing surge in data traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It will also ensure that the optical network is ready for the higher peak network speeds which will result from the expansion of 5G servi...

Remote   working needs digital   sauce   South African enterprises took a step backward in digital   transformation over the first year of the pandemic, as disruptions, lockdowns and staff   unable to maintain operations remotely slowed down roll-out of new systems at head   offices.   This is one of the startling findings of the Digital Corporation in South Africa 2021 research  study, conducted by World Wide Worx with the support of Syspro, Dell Technologies, Intel   and Cycan. The slow-down came despite expectations that remote working would   accelerate digital transformation, due to the demands it placed on companies to be able to      operate   digitally.   As many as two thirds of respondents said they had gone backwards in digital   transformation, an indication that the pandemic slowed efforts to digitalise organisations.   While many of these had slowed only a little, one in five, or 20%,...