Vodacom revenue declines, but data is up
Vodacom Group revenue for the quarter ended 31 December 2014 decreased 1,1% to R19,993-billion, with service revenue down 2,7% to R15,815-billion. Excluding the impact of the 50% cut in mobile termination rates in South Africa, Group revenue increased by 1,5% and...
ICT vital for service delivery
Governments in the 21st century cannot deliver services effectively without proper technology support. This is among the conclusions from a research study, “The potential use of cloud computing in the South African government environment” conducted by the research...Untrusted certificates on the rise
The number of untrusted certificates used to sign malicious software doubled in the last year. According to Kaspersky Lab, by the end of 2014 the company’s antivirus database included more than 6 000 of these certificates. Considering the growing amount of threats...DiData goes on data centre hiring spree
Dimension Data is set to hire an additional 300 data centre experts over the next 18 months as it seeks to quadruple its data centre business from $1-billion to $4-billion by 2018. In addition, the company intends to make data centre-focused acquisitions to build out skills and drive scale in major growth markets.