Telkom will proceed with the automatic transfer of staff from its call centre, supply chain and IT environments to new employers on 31 March, after unions failed to secure a majority consensus on an additional offer from the company. Persistent industrial action in the form of “go-slows” at Telkom’s call centres also escalated this weekend, with incidents of staff intimidation and walk-outs reported.
TAG Heuer, Google and Intel are partnering to produce a Swiss smartwatch powered by Intel technology and Android Wear. Together, these companies will create a product that is both luxurious and seamlessly connected to its wearer’s daily life. The product will merge the innovation, creativity and design of Silicon Valley with that of the Watch Valley in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) acquired images of the lunar surface before and after the largest recorded explosion occurred on the surface. On 17 March, 2013, an object the size of a small boulder hit the surface in Mare Imbrium and exploded in a flash of light nearly 10 times as bright as anything ever recorded before. This bright flash was recorded by researchers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville.
Hardware and infrastructure giant Huawei has signed a series of strategic partnerships with German technology leaders, paving the way for the Chinese organisation to take a lead role in the development of global technology, particularly Industry 4.0. Huawei signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with research institute Fraunhofer ESK to jointly develop ICT technology for Industry 4.0. Kathy Gibson reports from CeBIT.
Police and FBI are investigating defacement attacks on numerous US Web sites, in which attackers placed an ISIS flag banner on Web site home pages and played an Arabic song in the background. All the affected sites appear to have one thing in common: they are all built on the WordPress content management platform. WordPress is by far the most popular CMS. As of February 2015, more than 23% of the Web sites in the world were built on the WordPress Open Source platform.