6m Instagram accounts hacked

A hack believed to target only celebrity accounts on Instagram has also accessed millions of users’ private data, says ESET South Africa. The warning comes just days after singer, Selena Gomez, appeared to be one of the first celebrity accounts to have been...

Liquid Telecom upgrades East African fibre

Liquid Telecom today announced it has completed 100G upgrades to key routes on the East Africa Fibre Ring. The upgrade to 100G wavelengths takes advantage of the latest DWDM technology from Ekinops, allowing Liquid Telecom to offer the largest lit backhaul capacity in...

MEA computing device market declines

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, suffered a decline of -7,3% year on year in Q2 2017, according to IDC. The global technology research and consulting...

Rectron strengthens cloud portfolio

Leading IT distributor, Rectron, has teamed up with Intel and OnApp to provide resellers with a turnkey, hyper-converged cloud solution. The tri-partite relationship will leverage off of existing partnerships between Rectron and Intel. While Rectron has long been a...

SAB aims at job creation

South African Breweries (SAB) is looking to create thousands of jobs in South Africa and increase opportunities for entrepreneurs to become part of its supply chain through a series of key entrepreneurship programmes. From rural entrepreneurs to big business, SAB has...

Certification first for DPO

Direct Pay Online group (DPO) is the first payment service provider (PSP) in Africa to receive the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 1 certification in 12 African countries. This comes after the successful completion of comprehensive audits...