Triple bottom line takes off

As corporations of all sizes increasingly choose to monitor and report on their social and environmental impacts, a growing number of mostly small- and medium-sized companies are going even further: they are volunteering to be held publicly accountable to a new triple...

iStorage signs up Bridgeworks

Bridgeworks, a leading storage protocol bridge manufacturer, has announced its partnership with iStorage Data Networks Corporation, a South African distributor with more than 120 selected resellers and VARs. This is the first channel partnership in sub-Saharan Africa...

UAE, Africa investment urged

More global investment and trade between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Africa is urged, partly to assist Dubai’s bid for the World Expo 2020. This is the word from Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, CEO of Etisalat Group, speaking yesterday at the opening panel of African...

Backdoor affects thousands of servers

Eset researchers, together with their counterparts at Web security firm Sucuri, have been analysing a new threat affecting Apache Web servers, the most well-known and widely-used Web server in the world.  The threat is a highly advanced and stealthy backdoor being...

Mobile development will move to the cloud

By 2016, 40% of mobile application development projects will leverage cloud back-end services, causing development leaders to lose control of the pace and path of cloud adoption within their enterprises, predicts Gartner.  Cloud mobile back-end services provide a...

ISPA launches iCode against malware

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has announced that its iCode became effective yesterday (1 May 2013).  The iCode is a voluntary code of practice designed to make it safer for South Africans to work and play online by encouraging Internet service...