SA contestant aims for Samsung island prize

South African Jo Cranshaw is one of the eight global contestants still in line to win their own island in Samsung’s online, competition series, SOS Island: Survival of the Smartest, which combines live programming, online video streaming and social media. The original...

Disruption will go beyond IT, says Gartner

Gartner’s top predictions for IT organisations and IT users for 2014 combine several disruptive topics – digital industrial revolution, digital business, smart machines and the Internet of things – that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT...

Cell C lodges complaint against Vodacom, MTN

Cell C has formally lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission against mobile operators MTN and Vodacom, alleging anti-competitive conduct. The crux of the complaint relates to the manner in which the two telcos discriminate between their on-net and off-net...

Telkom warns of new phishing scam

Telkom has warned customers to be on the lookout for a new phishing scam aimed at defrauding them of cash or at acquiring their personal details or internet usernames and passwords under false pretexts. “The latest modus operandi that fraudsters are using to target...

Phishing, spam levels rose in August

During August, unsolicited e-mails made up 67,6% of all global e-mail traffic, according to Kaspersky Lab figures, making August 3,6 percentage points lower than July. However, the rate of phishing messages rose more than 10 times compared to July, while the volume of...