Technology News
International MTN calls start at 75c
MTN contract customers can now make international calls to over 200 international destinations at reduced rates. “MTN knows that this time of the year and the fast approaching festive season is the time when MTN customers want to connect with loved ones and share...
Cyber-threats move to digital signatures
Cyber-crooks are coming up with new ways of circumventing digital signature app validation on both PCs and Android-based devices. This is one of the findings of the McAfee Labs Threat Report: Third Quarter 2013, released this week. The McAfee Labs team identified a...
Kaspersky patents new emulation technology
Kaspersky Lab has patented a system which helps to prevent malware from detecting emulation during antivirus analysis. Patent 8555386, issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office, describes methods of improving the emulator in such a way as to make its work...
Special deals on takealot Tuesday
Takealot.com will be hosting its largest ever one-day sale today (26 November), with free delivery on all orders. They have dubbed the day “takealot Tuesday”. Declan Hollywood, chief marketing officer at takealot.com, comments: “As the brand that introduced Black...
Aspect Software introduces Zipwire
Aspect Software, a leading provider of fully-integrated customer interaction management, workforce optimisation, and back-office solutions, and drawing on 40 years of delivering enhanced customer experience solutions has announced a feature-rich, cloud-based contact...
Pragma academy offers new certificate
The Pragma Academy, which has been in existence for the last eleven years, has recently offered the Certificate in Physical Asset Management (CPAM). The three-year certificate is divided into three streams and can now effectively be used as a road map for career...
Don’t be a hostage to ransomware
Latest-generation ransomware can permanently encrypt business files, unless you pay to free them. Doros Hadjizenonos, Sales manager at Check Point South Africa takes a look at how ransomware is on the rise, and how firms can defend their data against being taken...
XON establishes storage division
XON, the BBBEE South African ICT solutions business, has completed building its end-to-end ICT solutions offering with the creation of XON Storage, Compute and Availability, which will be headed up by industry veteran Jason Barr. XON Storage, Compute and Availability...
Powering skills development with technology
As high end ICT skills become increasingly in demand, a partnership between the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Department of Computing Sciences and SYSPRO is using new technologies in innovative ways, to address the ICT skills shortfall. With a focus on...
Stratus releases OpenStack cloud software
Stratus Technologies, the leading provider of availability solutions, today launched a beta program aimed at improving the reliability of cloud infrastructures. The program will test Stratus’ next-generation suite of software solutions that enable always-on clouds...
IBM beats supercomputer record with Sequoia
Scientists at Swiss university ETH Zurich and IBM Research, in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), have set a new record in supercomputing in fluid dynamics using 6,4-million threads on LLNL’s 96...
ConvergeNet warns earnings to decline
ConvergeNet Holdings has issued a trading statement, warning shareholders that it will probably increase its loss per share by about 20% for the 12 months ended 31 August 2013 compared to last year. A decrease in the basic and headline earnings per share for the year...
Global processor market on track for growth
The global market for processors is set to finish 2013 on a strong note, helped by a splashy across-the-board increase in chip shipments to smartphones, tablets, PCs and servers compared to last year’s levels, according to a new report on the subject from HIS....
International MTN calls start at 75c
MTN contract customers can now make international calls to over 200 international destinations at reduced rates. “MTN knows that this time of the year and the fast approaching festive season is the time when MTN customers want to connect with loved ones and share...
Cyber-threats move to digital signatures
Cyber-crooks are coming up with new ways of circumventing digital signature app validation on both PCs and Android-based devices. This is one of the findings of the McAfee Labs Threat Report: Third Quarter 2013, released this week. The McAfee Labs team identified a...
Kaspersky patents new emulation technology
Kaspersky Lab has patented a system which helps to prevent malware from detecting emulation during antivirus analysis. Patent 8555386, issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office, describes methods of improving the emulator in such a way as to make its work...
Special deals on takealot Tuesday
Takealot.com will be hosting its largest ever one-day sale today (26 November), with free delivery on all orders. They have dubbed the day “takealot Tuesday”. Declan Hollywood, chief marketing officer at takealot.com, comments: “As the brand that introduced Black...
Aspect Software introduces Zipwire
Aspect Software, a leading provider of fully-integrated customer interaction management, workforce optimisation, and back-office solutions, and drawing on 40 years of delivering enhanced customer experience solutions has announced a feature-rich, cloud-based contact...
Pragma academy offers new certificate
The Pragma Academy, which has been in existence for the last eleven years, has recently offered the Certificate in Physical Asset Management (CPAM). The three-year certificate is divided into three streams and can now effectively be used as a road map for career...
Don’t be a hostage to ransomware
Latest-generation ransomware can permanently encrypt business files, unless you pay to free them. Doros Hadjizenonos, Sales manager at Check Point South Africa takes a look at how ransomware is on the rise, and how firms can defend their data against being taken...