New CFO for Cell C

Cell C today announced that Tyrone Soondarjee will be joining the company as its new chief financial officer from 1 July. “We are excited to welcome such an esteemed member of the financial services industry to lead Cell C into its next phase as a...

Vodacom opens IoT lab at Vodaworld

Vodacom has opened a Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) laboratory at its Vodaworld campus in Midrand to incubate and commercialise machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems using narrowband networking. Vodacom announced late last year that it...

Significant jump in SA’s risk profile

South Africa has been ranked number nine in the world in the Global Threat Impact Index released for May 2017 by Check Point Software. The country has jumped 13 places up the risk rankings in just one month.   The Index also revealed that more than one in four...

Guarding against invoice fraud

With worsening economic conditions, invoice fraud is becoming more common in South Africa. Detecting and successfully prosecuting this type of crime is difficult, but the losses can be very high.This is one case where prevention really is better than cure, says John...

News network commits to transparency

The Decentralized News Network, an independent, blockchain-powered news-and-information service, will unveil an alpha version of its flagship political news platform during the week of June 26. For the first time, the news platform’s users can use DNN tokens to...

Another SA first in education

South Africa has become the first country outside of the US to be accredited for digital training for teachers In a study run by Via Afrika, less than 35% of South Africa’s teachers had been trained in basic digital and ICT skills by 2011. Five years later, the...