Unemployment could destabilise SA economy

Lindani Dhlamini, CEO of professional services firm SekelaXabiso, examines the problem of unemployment in South Africa. Whenever South Africa’s latest unemployment statistics are released, I’m struck by how easily our very high levels of unemployment could destabilise...

System vulnerability is on the rise

Data centres around the world are facing more threats than ever before, with the total number of vulnerabilities on the rise, according to the HP 2012 Cyber Security Risk Report. The annual report reveals that disclosures grew 19% from 6 844 in 2011 to 8 137 in 2012,...

FNB wins innovation award

FNB has been voted as the most Innovative Bank in the 2013 Banking Innovation Study Results report.  Carried out by the Innovative Agency (Systemic Logic), based in the UK and South Africa, findings were produced on the levels of banking innovations in South Africa....

Fundamo exec named future mobile leader

Gavin Krugel, head of customer strategy and market activation for emerging markets at Visa company Fundamo, has been included in Global Telecoms Business’ 40 Under 40 list. The list identifies the most exciting young people in the mobile industry aged under 40 today...

Spam levels stabilise in March

After a sharp increase in spam volumes in February, March saw the flow of junk mail stabilise at a level of 70,1%. Despite this reduction, however, users could not afford to relax since at the same time the share of malicious attachments in unsolicited e-mail...

Telkom Mobile, MTN cut data rates

Both Telkom Mobile and MTN have announced new data rates. MTN has introduced new MTN Anytime Contract packages, which now offer contract customers more talk time through a combination of more anytime value and free MTN-to-MTN minutes, more text time through increased...