Space odyssey live on Twitter

In a world first, those people interested will be able to follow the Rosetta space mission live on Twitter as its lander, Philae, attempts to land on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko this evening. Rosetta is the first mission in history to rendezvous...

New iOS bug targets apps

FireEye has uncovered a new bug – the Masque Attack – that could take over iOS apps. The company writes on its corporate blog that it notified Apple back in July 2014 about a vulnerability whereby an iOS app installed using enterprise/ad-hoc provisioning could replace...

Joburg’s network progress slow

Kathy Gibson reports from the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm – Johannesburg ranks 29th out of 40 cities studied for the 2014 Networked Society Cities Index. Despite the relatively poor showing in the Index, Johannesburg has seen increased ICT maturity...

SA set for 7% wage increase

South African employers are forecasting 7% pay rises for staff in 2015 – the same as they received in 2014. This is according to the latest Salary Trends survey by ECA International, which finds that local increases are among the top 20 highest in the survey....

Omni-channel drives IT in retail

By 2017, three times the current number of retailers will succeed in explicitly pinning their customer and operations strategies on 3rd platform technologies. This is one of the findings from an International Data Corporation (IDC) report “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide...

The police car of the future

Vodacom Business and Samsung have partnered to create the police car of the future. This next-generation police car, which uses fixed and mobile network infrastructure in conjunction with the latest hardware, is designed to showcase how innovation and technology can...