MTN Business, City Lodge Hotel Group partner

MTN Business has signed a deal with the City Lodge Hotel Group to be the group’s connectivity and telecommunications support. This will significantly improve ICT services at the group’s 51 existing hotels in South Africa and one in Botswana, and future hotels that the...

Globalstar expands satellite services

Globalstar has announced that, in partnership with Broadband Botswana Internet (BBI), construction has commenced on a Globalstar gateway in Gaborone, Botswana. This gateway will provide Globalstar’s full line of Simplex services, including its SPOT line of...

Kaspersky demystifies Shellshock

Shortly after the disclosure of the “Bash” bug called “Shellshock”, Kaspersky Lab indicated that it saw first attempts by criminals to take advantage of this widespread vulnerability also known as CVE-2014-6271. The critical vulnerability in...

SAP commits $4m to Global Fund

SAP has announced that it is committing $4-million over a period of four years to the Global Fund, an international financing organisation started in 2002 to fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. Through its partnership with (RED), SAP technology is helping the...

MS asks for input on Windows 10

Microsoft has announced the technical preview of Windows 10, which it is calling a re-invented operating system that embraces the connected world. Zoaib Hoosen, country manager of Microsoft SA, points out that Windows currently serves about 1,5-billion people around...

Why Jobs was so charismatic

Steve Jobs provides business leaders with a perfect template of how to deliver expertly tailored rhetoric, according to new research. The late Apple boss was a master of the art of effective and persuasive speaking, employing various strategies to adapt to differing...