Jan 20, 2016
Well over a tenth of South Africans who apply for jobs have a criminal record – and a fair proportion of them have more than one. This is one of the findings from the Annual Screening Report Findings for 2015 from EMPS, South Africa’s oldest background...
Jan 20, 2016
MTN and Vodacom have declared war on consumer interests, according to Cell C CEO Jose dos Santos, who writes the following: “The infamous duopoly wants to limit how we use Internet services like WhatsApp – and it has nothing to do with fairness,...
Jan 20, 2016
International accounting software vendors will soon feel the effect of the plummeting rand as local businesses consider cheaper options. Software prices have already increased by 40% and will continue to rise as the rand weakens, according to Palladium Business...
Jan 20, 2016
Fujitsu Laboratories is in the news again, this time announcing a development in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Toho University of authentication technology for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that reduces the time needed for authentication in the...
Jan 20, 2016
More than one-third (36%) of global organisations still lack confidence in their ability to detect sophisticated cyber-attacks, according to the annual EY’s Global Information Security Survey 2015, “Creating trust in the digital world”. The survey of...
Jan 20, 2016
NASA astronauts are growing zinnias on the International Space Station (ISS). On 16 January, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly shared photographs of a blooming zinnia flower in the Veggie plant growth system aboard the ISS. Kelly wrote: “Yes, there are other...
