May 29, 2019
Seacom is adding eight new Points of Presence (PoPs) across Africa to enable more African businesses to connect to cloud facilities worldwide, as well as to the continent’s first Microsoft Azure data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. In Kenya, Seacom has...
May 28, 2019
Although consumers are starting to accept artificial intelligence (AI) and automation is increasing, they still prefer dealing with a human being when querying a bill (85%), changing account details (62%), making a complaint (84%), buying a product or service for the...
May 28, 2019
Smartphone unit sales in South Africa declined by about 7% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, while the value of the smartphone market climbed nearly 3% to around R8,6-billion as shoppers splashed out on higher-end models with larger screen sizes. That’s...
May 28, 2019
Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 2,7% in the first quarter of 2019, totalling 373-million units, according to Gartner. Despite its absence from the US, Huawei maintained its ranking as the number two smartphone vendor worldwide and continued to reduce...
May 28, 2019
Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a worrying rise in malware designed to steal credentials and money from users’ bank accounts: in Q1 2019, researchers found 29 841 files of such malware, up from 18 501 in Q4 2018. Overall, attacks on more than 300 000...
May 28, 2019
We are seeing an escalation in the sophistication and impact of cyberattacks across the globe. This, coupled with the fact that organisations need to protect themselves against a plethora of attacks while attackers only require a single vulnerability in an...
