Counting the cost of a security breach

The most expensive types of security breaches are employee fraud, cyber espionage, network intrusion and the failure of third party suppliers. The average budget required to recover from a security breach is $551 000 for enterprises and $38 000 for small and medium...

Demand for wristwear is on the increase

A growing list of vendors, a proliferation of devices, experiences, and price points, and steady consumer adoption will fuel growth in the worldwide market for wearable devices. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device...

Teraco connects Africa’s financial centre

A high speed, low-latency fibre link between the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the Teraco Isando data centre in Johannesburg has been completed by Dark Fibre Africa, offering capital market participants the reliable, high-bandwidth and high-speed connectivity...

Godin to lead Lenovo’s MEA region

Lenovo has appointed Marc Godin as vice-president and GM: MEA to lead the company’s business in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, effective immediately.  Godin succeeds Oliver Ebel who has moved to head up Lenovo’s smartphone business across EMEA...

What the world of smart banking means to you?

The retail space within the financial sector has come so far in terms of digitisation. There are, however, still a few hiccups in terms of trying to digitise it all. The main frustration is for consumers themselves. They’re the ones who still need to go into a...
Mars reveals dune landscape

Mars reveals dune landscape

Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock. This sandstone outcrop – part of a...