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Disruption will go beyond IT, says Gartner
Gartner’s top predictions for IT organisations and IT users for 2014 combine several disruptive topics - digital industrial revolution, digital business, smart machines and the Internet of things - that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT function....
Cell C lodges complaint against Vodacom, MTN
Cell C has formally lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission against mobile operators MTN and Vodacom, alleging anti-competitive conduct. The crux of the complaint relates to the manner in which the two telcos discriminate between their on-net and off-net...
Telkom warns of new phishing scam
Telkom has warned customers to be on the lookout for a new phishing scam aimed at defrauding them of cash or at acquiring their personal details or internet usernames and passwords under false pretexts. “The latest modus operandi that fraudsters are using to target...
Phishing, spam levels rose in August
During August, unsolicited e-mails made up 67,6% of all global e-mail traffic, according to Kaspersky Lab figures, making August 3,6 percentage points lower than July. However, the rate of phishing messages rose more than 10 times compared to July, while the volume of...
Westcon, gateprotect partner in Africa
German IT security specialist gateprotect has partnered with the Westcon Group in South Africa and Africa in a bid to strategically enhance its presence in the region. With the integration into the Westcon-Comztek data security portfolio, the company now has access to...
Cost benefits from modular data centres
Modular data centres may cost as much as 14% less to deploy than traditional "bricks and mortar" data centres, indicating that the industry could be wasting much-needed capital on data centre deployment, according to research from DCD Intelligence, a division of...
Zetes to produce Gambian passports
Zetes has been awarded a 15-year contract to implement biometric electronic passports for Gambia. It is estimated that 40 000 passports will be produced each year as part of the subcontracting contract, in which the primary contractor is Africard. Implementation has...
Rectron, Samsung clean up print environment
Rectron South Africa, a leading distributor of computers, peripherals and accessories have introduced an exclusive trade-in promotion with Samsung, where Rectron customers and resellers will receive a R500 discount voucher off any Samsung printer, when they bring in...
PRISM break: US cloud customers defect
In June, thanks to one of its now former and very famous employees blowing the whistle, the news broke that America’s National Security Agency (NSA) was using a programme, code-named PRISM, to spy on e-mails, Internet phone calls, file transfers, photos, videos and...
WiFi will be the next corporate must-have
WiFi is not new. Although it’s hard to track its origins, it’s safe to say WiFi was being used on a large scale for the first time in the late 1990s, which probably qualifies it as being prehistoric in tech terms. But there has been renewed interest in the technology...
Survey aims to define skills gaps
It’s well-known that there are major skills shortages in South Africa but, as the country is about to embark on a massive infrastructure build, it’s vital to understand exactly what skills we have, and where the gaps are. The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA)...
Counting the real cost of cyber-attacks
The cost, frequency and time to resolve cyber-attacks has risen for the fourth consecutive year, according to Ponemon Institute research for HP Enterprise Security Products. The 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study found that the average annualised cost of cybercrime...
SA contestant aims for Samsung island prize
South African Jo Cranshaw is one of the eight global contestants still in line to win their own island in Samsung’s online, competition series, SOS Island: Survival of the Smartest, which combines live programming, online video streaming and social media. The original...
Disruption will go beyond IT, says Gartner
Gartner’s top predictions for IT organisations and IT users for 2014 combine several disruptive topics - digital industrial revolution, digital business, smart machines and the Internet of things - that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT function....
Cell C lodges complaint against Vodacom, MTN
Cell C has formally lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission against mobile operators MTN and Vodacom, alleging anti-competitive conduct. The crux of the complaint relates to the manner in which the two telcos discriminate between their on-net and off-net...
Telkom warns of new phishing scam
Telkom has warned customers to be on the lookout for a new phishing scam aimed at defrauding them of cash or at acquiring their personal details or internet usernames and passwords under false pretexts. “The latest modus operandi that fraudsters are using to target...
Phishing, spam levels rose in August
During August, unsolicited e-mails made up 67,6% of all global e-mail traffic, according to Kaspersky Lab figures, making August 3,6 percentage points lower than July. However, the rate of phishing messages rose more than 10 times compared to July, while the volume of...
Westcon, gateprotect partner in Africa
German IT security specialist gateprotect has partnered with the Westcon Group in South Africa and Africa in a bid to strategically enhance its presence in the region. With the integration into the Westcon-Comztek data security portfolio, the company now has access to...
Cost benefits from modular data centres
Modular data centres may cost as much as 14% less to deploy than traditional "bricks and mortar" data centres, indicating that the industry could be wasting much-needed capital on data centre deployment, according to research from DCD Intelligence, a division of...
Zetes to produce Gambian passports
Zetes has been awarded a 15-year contract to implement biometric electronic passports for Gambia. It is estimated that 40 000 passports will be produced each year as part of the subcontracting contract, in which the primary contractor is Africard. Implementation has...