Half the world’s users offline in outage
In what has been described at the biggest Internet outage ever, 500-million Chinese users were unable to load sites for about eight hours on Tuesday. It is now believed that the culprit was China’s own security system – dubbed the Great Firewall – that was to blame,...Online transactions top Internet concern
Almost 98% of computer users enjoy the ease and convenience of shopping and banking on their PCs, Macs, tablets and smartphones, according to a global survey from B2B International and Kaspersky Lab. That means just 2% of respondents say they never use their PCs or...The mystery of the Mars rock
NASA’s Curiosity rover has pictured a rock on the Mars surface – on a piece of ground where a previous photograph showed nothing. Before-and-after pair of images of the same patch of ground in front of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity 13 days apart...Neotel invests in reducing network latency
Neotel has made significant investments to reduce network latency between South Africa and other BRICS countries. Network latency determines the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to get from one point to another. According to Abid Qadiri, chief of Business...Intel to transition McAfee to Intel Security
Intel has announced its intention to rebrand the McAfee business under the Intel Security brand. Speaking at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said Intel plans to offer elements of McAfee mobile security products for free to help guard...