A bit of Moore’s Law history …

The integrated circuit was only six years old in 1965 when Gordon Moore articulated “Moore’s Law,” the principle that would guide microchip development from that point forward. Moore was director of research & development at Fairchild...

Roaming Mantis spreads outside Asia

On 16 April, Kaspersky Lab researchers reporteda new Android malware distributed through a domain name system (DNS) hijacking technique and targeting mainly smartphones in Asia. Four weeks on, the threat continues to evolve rapidly and has now extended its target...

Call to make water paid-for

If ever there is an eleventh commandment, it should be “water must be paid for”, delegates were told on the last day of the African Utility Week. Chief manager investments and programmes in Kenya’s Water Services Trust Fund Willis Ombai roped in the...

Bitcoin Cash payments coming soon …

Global blockchain leader nChain and South Afrian merchant payment ecosystem Centbee have partnered to ensure the speedy development of a merchant point of sale (PoS) software development kit (SDK) for the worldwide market. The SDK is an open-source set of tools,...

What makes a supply chain leader?

Leading supply chain companies focus on customer experience, are scalable and designed around a circular supply chain. This is according to Gartner, which has released the results of its annual Supply Chain Top 25, identifying supply chain leaders and highlighting...

New blockchain algorithms for IoT

Hong Kong-based AnApp Blockchain Technologies has developed new Proof of Assignment and Micro-mining algorithms that could form the backbone of a game-changing blockchain ecosystem for the IoT world. The founders of AnApp believe that the integration of IoT and...