Nov 15, 2016
Kathy Gibson reports from AfricaCom in Cape Town – Telkom could be on the verge of launching mobile payment services in South Africa. Floris Buys, head of digital at Telkom, strongly hinted during a panel discussion at AfricaCom today that the telco is about to...
Nov 15, 2016
Telkom’s interim results for the six months ended 30 September have shown an increase in revenue of 21% to R20-billion, boosted significantly by its mobile business. In a statement, the company says it has delivered a “solid performance” in a tough...
Nov 15, 2016
The number of financial phishing attacks is expected to rise during the holiday season which starts unofficially on so-called Black Friday and continues through Cyber Monday and Christmas. Retrospective research by Kaspersky Lab specialists shows that, over the last...
Nov 15, 2016
The shortfall in specialised IT security skills is increasing the risk profile of South African organisations, which need to increase focus on developing a skills pipeline within public-private sector partnerships. This is the view of Ron Harris, major account...
Nov 15, 2016
Johannesburg is set to be the most popular destination city in Africa for the fourth year, according to the 2016 Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index, with Cape Town and Durban coming in third and fifth respectively. Joburg is expected to welcome 3.6 million...
Nov 15, 2016
Africa’s largest colocation data centre provider, Teraco Data Environments, has announced the start of construction on a new data centre in River Fields Bredell, 20km north of the current Isando campus. While Teraco finalises the expansion of its Isando campus...
