Vodacom chairman steps down

Peter Moyo, independent chairman of Vodacom, will retire and step down from the board at the forthcoming annual general meeting on 18 July 2017. He will join Old Mutual Emerging Markets as its CEO in June 2017. Moyo joined Vodacom at the company’s listing in May...
April Fools comet flyby

April Fools comet flyby

Over the weekend (1 April), comet 41P passed closer than it normally does to Earth. It is expected to reach perihelion, or its closest approach to the sun, on 12 April. Officially named 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák to honour its three discoverers, the comet was first...

Record number of leaks disclosed in 2016

The number of records compromised grew a historic 566% in 2016 from 600-million to more than 4-billion. These leaked records include data cybercriminals have traditionally targeted like credit cards, passwords and personal health information, but the 2017 IBM X-Force...

Man electrocuted by charging iPhone

Putting his iPhone on to charge next to his bed while he was sleeping almost cost a man his life. Wiley Day, based in Alabama, US, went to bed with his iPhone plugged in at his bedside. The net morning, as he was getting up, his neck chain became entangled at the...

How to measure the impact of CX on revenue

Customer experience (CX) is gaining significant traction as companies looked for ways to improve their customer engagement and boost profits. However, many CX professionals are having a hard time showing the connection between better CX and revenue growth in order to...

Free data for Telkom’s Internet customers

Telkom Internet customers can stay connected wherever they are with Telkom’s Integrated Data Service (IDS), available from 1 April. With IDS, customers can access their Telkom Internet SoftCap data bundle from any smart device via a Telkom Internet SIM, even if...