New player enters SA telecom market

African telecommunications company Paratus Telecom has entered the local telecoms market by acquiring full-spectrum end-to-end connectivity solutions provider Maxwell Technology. Paratus Telecom South Africa aims to be the connectivity solutions facilitator of choice...

OpenStack takes off, moves into production

OpenStack production deployments have more than doubled in 2016, according to a Red Hat survey. Last year, the Red Hat OpenStack Platform team surveyed its customer base on their use of OpenStack and found that, while interest was high, most of the respondents were...

Under the covers with the Google Pixel XL

The cost to manufacture the Google Pixel phone closely matches that of its intended rivals – a logical and expected move, especially since Google’s new offering figures to target the same class of high-end users that normally flock to flagship smartphone...

FNB increases WiFi access and Digital Zones

FNB branches with active connection to WiFi have increased from 132 in June to 255 today, as the bank moves to bulk up its digital offering at branch. The bank will also increase Digital Zones at branches from 222 to 438 in the coming months. Lee-Anne van Zyl, CEO of...

Telkom fibre connection a boon for CiTi

Big data analysts and online gamers alike had reason to celebrate last week with the launch of a 300Mbps, uncontended, low-latency fibre connection at The Basement co-working space and innovation lab in the Woodstock Exchange, Cape Town. The fibre link is powered by...
Who watches the watchers …?

Who watches the watchers …?

Last week’s massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has highlighted a fundamental issue concerning the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT): are there enough standards, checks and balances to secure the millions of devices that are accessing our...