Tech entrepreneurs key to balancing social inequality

Tech entrepreneurs key to balancing social inequality

While South Africa has made impressive social gains since the end of apartheid, levels of poverty and inequality remain untenably high. If the country is to overcome these difficulties, it must foster an environment that encourages tech-based entrepreneurship....

Beware of insecure World Cup WiFi hotspots

More than 20% of the public WiFi networks in FIFA World Cup 2018 host cities – 7 176 of approximately 32 000 – do not use traffic encryption. This makes them potentially unsafe for use by football fans visiting the cities, according to Kaspersky Lab...

Cell C applies for urgent interdict against ICASA

Cell C has applied for an urgent interdict against the Independent communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), in bid to get the deadline for compliance with the End-User and Subscriber Services Charter extended. The company has issued a statement clarifying...

How security leaders can drive results

The overwhelming demands on security leaders today can have a paralyzing effect. Gartner analysts have provided guidance on how security leaders can be empowered to adapt their people, processes and technologies to address the old and the new; empowered to transform...

Tech improves maths, science in SA schools

In the next decade, 80% of all jobs will require skills in maths, science and technology. In order to keep up with changing times, South Africa needs to invest in methods to drastically improve its current ranking as one of the worst in the world for math and science...

Healthy MEA demand for PCs, but tablets falter

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, declined 5,3% year on year in Q1 2018, according to the latest insights from International Data Corporation (IDC). The global...