Channel must advise customers correctly

Resellers who fail to add real value to their customers are less likely to retain those customers in the medium to long-term. That’s the view of Zuraida Smail, channel manager at MWEB Business, who points out that it is far more cost effective to retain and grow...

The universe after the big bang

Scientists have captured pictures of what they believe the universe looked like shortly after the “big bang”. Acquired by ESA’s Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background is thought to be the relic radiation from the...

Tshwane taps into WaterWatchers app

 On World Water Day, IBM in collaboration with the City of Tshwane, will launch a crowdsourcing project to help capture, share and analyse information about the water distribution system in South Africa. The project will be driven by a new mobile phone application and...

North Korea suspect in cyber-attacks

This week’s cyber-attacks on South Korea could well be the work of North Korea, according to UK-based British IT security firm MWR InfoSecurity. “Many of the cyber-attacks we have seen to date are a lot more covert than this,” says Alex Fidgen, director at MWR...