Aug 2, 2017
New research from MWR InfoSecurity, reveals how the team have successfully compromised the Amazon Echo by exploiting a vulnerability in the device to turn it into a ‘wiretap’, without affecting its overall functionality. The company has released a bulletin...
Aug 2, 2017
On 1 August 1971 – 46 years ago – the second Apollo 15 moonwalk took place. Apollo 15 was the fourth crewed mission to land on the Moon and the first to visit and explore the Moon’s Hadley Rille and Apennine Mountains which are located on the...
Aug 2, 2017
MTN is extending its partnership with energy and financial services firm Fenix International to launch pay-to-own solar home systems in Zambia. The Swedish Embassy in Zambia is committing nearly $3-million to Fenix in Zambia between now and 2020, with USAID...
Aug 2, 2017
Small Domestic Appliance (SDA) sales in South Africa declined 17% to $228-million (about R3-billion) in 2016, with kettles and irons accounting for 43% of market value. Newly released data from GfK South Africa shows that is the first time the SDA market has shrunk in...
Aug 2, 2017
Industrialisation will raise the living standards of the people of the SADC region. This is according to the acting director of Industrial Development and Trade at the South African Development Community (SADC), Dr Lomkhosi Mkhonta-Gama, speaking during Africa...
Aug 2, 2017
Taxpayers have been reminded of the looming deadline for the Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme (SVDP) on 31 August 2017. SVDP is a window period for individuals and companies to regularise undisclosed or unauthorised foreign assets and associated income. It came...
