New challengers set to disrupt mobile phones

Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2015, to be held from 2 to 5 March in Barcelona, Annette Zimmermann, research director at Gartner, discusses the future of the mobile phone industry and shares her outlook for wearables in 2015 and beyond. Q: The mobile phone is over 30...

IBM extends hybrid cloud offerings

IBM has announced new hybrid cloud technology and investments that will tackle the biggest challenges enterprises face as they adopt cloud and integrate existing applications, data and services across a multitude of traditional systems and clouds. IBM is delivering a...

Higher earnings expected for EOH

EOH Holdings is expecting to report higher earnings for the six months ended 31 January 2015. The company today issued a trading statement to this effect. The earnings per share is expected to be between 275.8 cents and 298.7 cents, reflecting an increase of between...

Cyber-attacks now politically motivated

Following last year’s much publicised Sony cyber-attack, in which executives were left red-faced following the leak of sensitive company information into the public domain, Richard Keymer, head of presales at SecureData Africa, predicts a marked increase in...

SSL certificates boost Google rankings

Greater adoption of secure socket layers (SSL) certificates is essential if Web site owners want to better their Google search engine rankings. This is according to Domains.co.za which highlighted Google’s recent announcement that it would start placing greater...

Iran is learning cyber-warfare from the US

The US National Security Agency believes that the US’ cyber-attacks against Iran may have helped to raise Iran’s cyber-warfare capability. A report from “The Intercept” cites a secret document from the National Security Agency that warns of Iran studying and...