Kaspersky patent suit dismissed

Kaspersky Lab was been vindicated in a lawsuit initiated by Lodsys, a company located in Texas that operates as a Patent Assertion Entity. Kaspersky Lab, along with 54 other companies including Atari, Symantec and Estee Lauder, were originally named in Lodsys’...

Lily Collins most dangerous in 2013

Lily Collins, star of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and Mirror, Mirror, has replaced Emma Watson as McAfee’s most dangerous celebrity to search for online. For the seventh year in a row, McAfee researched popular culture’s most famous people to reveal the...

Firms choose hybrid cloud

Nearly half of large organisations will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017, according to Gartner. In the past three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of large organisations. Hybrid cloud...

IS calls for strategic communications action

When Internet Solutions makes its presentation this week to the parliamentary committee working on the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) Amendment Bill, it will be calling for far-reaching, strategic rather than incremental changes. “The...

SA city traffic compares favourably

Research from Castrol and TomTom reveals that drivers in Cape Town could experience 8 760 stop-starts a year, compared to the highest ranked city, Istanbul, where drivers might experience 31 200 stop-starts. The study was carried out for Castrol by TomTom, using...

Affordable 3D printing comes of age

Worldwide shipments of 3D printers (3DPs) priced less than $100 000 will grow 49% in 2013 to reach a total of 56 507 units, according to Gartner’s first forecast of the less than $100 000 consumer and enterprise 3D printer market. Rapid quality and performance...