No danger of asteroid impact

No danger of asteroid impact

Aug 20, 2015

Recent blogs and Web postings are claiming that an asteroid will impact Earth, sometime between 15 September and 28 September 2015. On one of those dates, as rumours go, there will be an impact – “evidently” near Puerto Rico – causing destruction to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US and Mexico, as well as Central and South America. NASA has published some facts to debunk the rumours.

MTN debuts pan-African cloud services

Aug 20, 2015

MTN has launched an Africa-wide cloud services offering based on Azure Pack and a strategic relationship with Microsoft. Alpheus Mangale, chief enterprise business officer at MTN SA, points out that the partnership will see MTN bringing Azure services to all African markets through its 47 data centres on the continent. The core benefits of cloud computing are agility, flexibility and security, he says.

Law must keep pace with technology

Aug 20, 2015

The Davis Tax Committee’s (DTC) First Interim Report on VAT focuses on a number of key challenges inherent to VAT in South Africa, and includes a substantial section on the application of VAT in the e-commerce environment. “We welcome the recommendations...

SA hits 1m .co.za domain milestone

Aug 20, 2015

South Africa has registered its one-millionth .co.za domain name. The registration of www.vulindlela-hpt.co.za, at 09h57 yesterday (19 August 2015) with the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) comes 20 years after there were just 450 registered .co.za domains at the end of...

IoT set for mainstream adoption

Aug 20, 2015

It is still early days for the Internet of Things (IoT), both here in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and globally. But, according to IDC, signs that it will soon be mainstream are already appearing. For retail, this is literally true. All those digital signs popping...

Figures show tablets are reaching saturation

Aug 20, 2015

Tablet shipments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) fell by 21,4% in the second quarter of 2015 compared to the same quarter in the previous year, to 2,8-million units shipped, according to the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Quarterly Tablet Tracker...