Nokia unveils new, affordable smartphones
Nokia has announced the arrival of its first 6-inch Lumia smartphone in South Africa. The Nokia Lumia 1520 is now available in black, yellow and white on contracts starting at R449.00 per month. The new large screen Lumia is joined by three affordable smartphones in...Intrusive security in a post-Snowden world
Many organisations are rightly concerned about the wave of revelations since mid-2013 that US agencies are spying on just about all forms of global communications. Since whistle-blower Edward Snowden went public with details of the US National Security Agency’s...High alert warning over DDoS as a service
A high alert DDoS threat advisory has been issued for the DNS Flooder v1.1 toolkit that makes it faster and easier for malicious actors to launch crippling reflection attacks and will likely be widely adopted in the DDoS as a service market, potentially increasing the...Telecoms trends to watch in 2014
The Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) believes there are four trends and technologies in the telecommunications space that will drive the market in 2014. These are: * Penetration of and sophistication of smartphone and mobile applications; * Converged...Symantec, Pamoja partner on cloud rollout
Pamoja Africa, the cloud services business unit of Seacom, has entered into a partnership with Symantec to distribute Symantec’s suite of cloud services in sub-Saharan Africa. The alliance will ensure that Pamoja’s expanding channel and service provider ecosystem has...