FNB customer wins big in PowerBall

One FNB customer will walk away with R62-million after winning the PowerBall jackpot in the draw that took place on the 16 September 2016. The latest jackpot winner brings the total amount won by FNB clients to over R160-million since Lotto and PowerBall purchases...

Teraco invests in new technology for NAPAfrica

Teraco has made a significant investment in a new, programmable switching platform, from Arista Networks, increasing the speeds and capacity of its Internet eXchange at NAPAfrica. The migration comes four years after the initial launch of the internet eXchange point...
Africa’s future is still bright

Africa’s future is still bright

Africa’s growth outlook has changed over the last few years, but is still positive as the region remains the world’s second-fastest growth region. Six years ago when the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) first looked in detail at Africa’s diverse...

PC leaders must change – or die

Business leaders of PC vendors face a stark choice and must decide between overhauling their businesses or leaving the PC market by 2020, according to Gartner. If they decide to stay, they need to rapidly determine what changes to make or what alternatives to adapt in...

How EMEA companies combat cyber threats

Cloud and vulnerabilities in IT systems are the two greatest concerns for IT decision-makers, driving a trend favouring actionable threat intelligence, faster incident response and managed security services, according to new Fortinet research. Patrice Perche, senior...

Smart city devices are vulnerable to attack

Kaspersky Lab researchers examined a number of digital kiosks and interactive terminals used in modern cities for different purposes – from paying for different services through to entertainment – and discovered that a lot of them contain vulnerabilities...