Jul 17, 2019
Worldwide shipments of devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones — will total 2,2-billion units in 2019, a decline of 3,3% year over year, according to Gartner. The mobile phone market is set to record the worst performance of these device types, declining...
Jul 17, 2019
An international team of mathematicians has hailed the end of a variant of a code that is widely used to protect online transactions. These algorithms, which stretch to hundreds of digits, are created to help protect banking details, but these can be broken if...
Jul 17, 2019
Kaspersky researchers have discovered that the Russian-speaking threat actor Turla has revamped its toolset, wrapping its famous JavaScript KopiLuwak malware in a new dropper called Topinambour, creating two similar versions in other languages, and distributing its...
Jul 17, 2019
Today (17 July) is World Emoji Day, celebrating the estimated 5 billion emojis that are sent daily on Facebook Messenger by 4-billion Internet users online. Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013, the word emoji literally means “picture” (e) +...
Jul 16, 2019
3 … 2… 1 … we have a lift-off! Fifty years ago today (16 July 1969), three astronauts blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and became the first human beings to land on the moon and return home safely. The Apollo 11 space vehicle was...
Jul 16, 2019
Customers with a R5 500 net monthly income spend an average of R200 worth of prepaid services every month (data, voice, SMSs), which equates to over 4% of their income, according to data from FNB. Pieter Woodhatch, chief executive of FNB Easy Subsegment, says tough...
