WiFi takes off at Lanseria

MWeb has launched its WiFi zone at Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg. “The nature of air travel and time spent in airports highlighted these environments as ideal locations to implement the MWeb WiFi zone solution. As of November 2014 Lanseria International Airport,...

Metacom acquires Multenet

Industrial and commercial communications operator Metacom has acquired 100% of Stellenbosch-based hardware development company Multenet. Metacom MD Réan van Niekerk says the purchase makes Metacom “the strongest player in South Africa in our market niche, serving...

Cost, innovation, agility drive cloud

Global buyers of cloud applications cite cost, innovation and agility as reasons for adoption, according to a recent survey by Gartner. In May and June 2014, Gartner conducted a survey across 10 countries in four regions to examine organizations’ adoption and...

Solid growth for WLAN market in Q3

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 7,4% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14). According to the preliminary results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...

Is your car in danger of being hacked?

So far, there have been no known cases of cars being hacked, but hackers on behalf of the US military recently proved that it is indeed possible. Jacques Louw, senior information security consultant at MWR InfoSecurity, comments: “With regards to the attacks that have...