Data use just keeps on growing

By Kathy Gibson in Stockholm, Sweden – The number of mobile subscriptions in the world already exceeds the number of people – a trend that is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. One of the major growth areas for new subscribers is Africa, which in...

Sweden is serious about business in Africa

By Kathy Gibson in Stockholm, Sweden – As Africa emerges as one of the world’s few growing economies, Sweden is moving to increase its trade on the continent – with a focus on ensuring that benefit flows both ways. State secretary of the Minister of Foreign...

Banking Trojans dominated in July

The results of spam monitoring in July point to a lack of variety among malware targets — nearly every malicious programme launched during the month was after personal user data. Most cases involved malicious programmes from banking Trojan families that use personal...

Deadline looms for would-be entrepreneurs

South African small and medium-sized businesses and individuals over the age of 17 have only one month left in which to enter their new or existing innovative business concepts into the Step-Up Technology Innovation Competition. South Africa’s newest technology...

Telkom switches on IMS core

Continuing on its quest to transform to an all IP network through its Network Transformation programme, Telkom’s new Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core has now been switched on. The company says that this move towards an all IP Converged Core Network is...