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Cyber-attacks: not if but when
The cost of phishing attacks in South Africa amounted to about $320-million in 2013 alone - and it’s no longer a case of “if” your company is going to be a target, but rather “when”. This is according to Drew van Vuuren, consulting services partner at 4Di Privaca, who...
Airtel debuts 4G in Seychelles
Bharti Airtel has launched Africa’s first 4G service in the Seychelles. The FD-LTE network makes the Seychelles amongst the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to commercially deploy the technology, and marks Airtel’s first commercial LTE network in Africa. The...
WiFi takes off at Lanseria
MWeb has launched its WiFi zone at Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg. “The nature of air travel and time spent in airports highlighted these environments as ideal locations to implement the MWeb WiFi zone solution. As of November 2014 Lanseria International Airport,...
Metacom acquires Multenet
Industrial and commercial communications operator Metacom has acquired 100% of Stellenbosch-based hardware development company Multenet. Metacom MD Réan van Niekerk says the purchase makes Metacom “the strongest player in South Africa in our market niche, serving...
Cost, innovation, agility drive cloud
Global buyers of cloud applications cite cost, innovation and agility as reasons for adoption, according to a recent survey by Gartner. In May and June 2014, Gartner conducted a survey across 10 countries in four regions to examine organizations' adoption and...
Solid growth for WLAN market in Q3
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 7,4% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14). According to the preliminary results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...
Is your car in danger of being hacked?
So far, there have been no known cases of cars being hacked, but hackers on behalf of the US military recently proved that it is indeed possible. Jacques Louw, senior information security consultant at MWR InfoSecurity, comments: “With regards to the attacks that have...
CIOs must adapt or die
Given the connectedness of the world today, CIOs are under increased pressure to evolve as business needs change faster than before. In many respects, this has resulted in them becoming the lynchpins of the modern organisation. Jessie Rudd, BI consultant at PBT Group,...
IT predictions for 2015
The data centre will continue to evolve in 2015, with increased functionality but also more threats. Riverbed’s Brent Lees offers his five prediction for the coming year: * Network functions virtualisation takes off, even without SDN. 2015 will see continued...
Jasco announces DataVoice Libra v8.0
Jasco has announced the availability of the latest update to the DataVoice Libra Voice Recorder solution, a full-featured enterprise-class voice recording, storage and retrieval solution that scales seamlessly for any size of business, from SMEs to large corporates....
IntegriSure releases insurance app
Just when you thought the South African financial and insurance markets had reached a plateau in terms of software development and application offerings, IntegriSure has released a brand new app that surpasses expectations within the insurance field. The company has...
Dell announces new HPC solutions
Dell continues to push the boundaries of high-performance computing (HPC) by unveiling the PowerEdge C4130; the next addition to the Dell PowerEdge server portfolio that is an industry leader in GPU/accelerator density to speed even the most demanding workloads.
OpenWeb opens its doors to partners
Local Internet service provider (ISP) OpenWeb has launched its partner programme, inviting resellers to share in its success. Entrepreneurs can now use a tried and tested ISP model to grow a successful business. Partners can now also take advantage of the low ADSL...
Cyber-attacks: not if but when
The cost of phishing attacks in South Africa amounted to about $320-million in 2013 alone - and it’s no longer a case of “if” your company is going to be a target, but rather “when”. This is according to Drew van Vuuren, consulting services partner at 4Di Privaca, who...
Airtel debuts 4G in Seychelles
Bharti Airtel has launched Africa’s first 4G service in the Seychelles. The FD-LTE network makes the Seychelles amongst the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to commercially deploy the technology, and marks Airtel’s first commercial LTE network in Africa. The...
WiFi takes off at Lanseria
MWeb has launched its WiFi zone at Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg. “The nature of air travel and time spent in airports highlighted these environments as ideal locations to implement the MWeb WiFi zone solution. As of November 2014 Lanseria International Airport,...
Metacom acquires Multenet
Industrial and commercial communications operator Metacom has acquired 100% of Stellenbosch-based hardware development company Multenet. Metacom MD Réan van Niekerk says the purchase makes Metacom “the strongest player in South Africa in our market niche, serving...
Cost, innovation, agility drive cloud
Global buyers of cloud applications cite cost, innovation and agility as reasons for adoption, according to a recent survey by Gartner. In May and June 2014, Gartner conducted a survey across 10 countries in four regions to examine organizations' adoption and...
Solid growth for WLAN market in Q3
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 7,4% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14). According to the preliminary results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...
Is your car in danger of being hacked?
So far, there have been no known cases of cars being hacked, but hackers on behalf of the US military recently proved that it is indeed possible. Jacques Louw, senior information security consultant at MWR InfoSecurity, comments: “With regards to the attacks that have...