Samsung raises the bar with S8

Samsung raises the bar with S8

Samsung Electronics is wooing consumers back into the fold with its new Galaxy S8 smartphone, featuring an Infinity Display for immersive viewing and launching with a range of services and apps. “The Samsung Galaxy S8 ushers in a new era of smartphone design and...
Machine-brain interface the next step?

Machine-brain interface the next step?

The human brain could be the next networking component if plans to build a brain-computer interface come to fruition. The idea has been promulgated by Elon Musk, the South African-born founder of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, who also imagined the Hyperloop mass transport...

dotAfrica domain set for lift-off …

It’s all systems go for Africa’s new home on the web as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) has approved the launch plan and dates for dotAfrica. “Final and confirmed,” is how the CEO of dotAfrica gTLD (generic Top...

Complexity drives need for integrated security

Organisations in the Middle East and Africa are unlikely to increase the number of vendors they interact with. However, they are likely to increase the number of products in use, which highlights that organisations in the region currently do not tend to follow an...

Industrial companies should brace for attack

On average two-in-five computers, related to the technological infrastructure of industrial enterprises, faced cyberattacks in the second half of 2016. This is a finding from Kaspersky Lab’s report, the “Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems...

Routed debuts vendor-neutral cloud platform

Cloud service provider Routed has launched its vendor-neutral cloud platform to offer what the company believes South Africa needs: a cloud platform that is reliable, scalable and secure. Andrew Cruise, MD of Routed, says the cloud market is on an immense growth curve...