Boost for .africa domain registrations

Domain name Registrars and Resellers (RaRs) who are not currently accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) to register new dotAfrica (.africa), dotJoburg, dotDurban and dotCapetown generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) can now...

Jasco warns of lower revenues

Jasco Electronics has released a trading statement, warning shareholders that its revenue for the financial year ended 30 June will be down. The statement reads: “During the year ended 30 June 2017, the group operated in continued adverse trading conditions in...

BT announces business platform-as-a-service

BT has announced details of its new Business Platform-as-a-Service, which it believes is the first of its kind to be widely available. The platform, called BT Personalised Compute Management System (PCMS), is designed to help companies speed up time-to-market for new...

Ropemaker adds insecure email links

A common belief is that email is immutable once delivered, like a physical letter. But a new exploit turns that assumption on its head, undermining the security and non-repudiation of email; even for those that use SMIME or PGP for signing. Mimecast has revealed the...

SA goes crazy for mental health …

The first few steps were taken in a campaign to elevate awareness of mental illness today. The “Crazy for Walking” campaign has a group of walkers walking a crazy distance of 1 500km from Pretoria to Cape Town in a period of just over five weeks, planning...

NRF approves R35m nuclear spectrometer funding

The National Research Foundation (NRF) has approved the funding of R35-million for a Nuclear Spectrometer. GAMKA, which stands for GAMma-ray spectrometer for Knowledge in Africa as well as from the Khoisan word for “lion”, will bolster the country’s...