Hacking into the average living room …

Kaspersky Lab security analyst David Jacoby conducted a research experiment in his own living room to find out how safe his home is from a cyber security point of view. He inspected home entertainment devices such as network-attached storages (NAS), smart TVs, router, Blu-ray player and so on to find out if they are vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

$8bn market for software-defined networking

Software-defined networking (SDN) continues to gain ground within the broader enterprise and cloud service provider markets for data centre networking. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide SDN market for the enterprise...

Westcon Africa to distribute Ruckus Wireless

Ruckus Wireless has appointed Westcon Africa as the newest member of its growing distributor network, as part of the company’s continued expansion into Africa. Westcon Africa is now an official distributor of all Ruckus Wireless solutions across the continent...

A business case for social initiatives

IT leaders planning to introduce or extend collaboration and social software initiatives may well need a more compelling business case to present to business leaders, according to Gartner. Gartner has identified eight steps to help gain approval for investment in such...

MTN launches PayAsYouGo data roaming

MTN South Africa has announced the availability of its innovative prepaid data roaming offering that enables PayAsYouGo and TopUp customers to access the Internet while travelling abroad, from as little as R2.00 per megabyte. “Prepaid customers have been able to...
Pinnacle tackles market rumours

Pinnacle tackles market rumours

Pinnacle Holdings this week laid rest to rumours in order to address the concerns that have kept its share price on the back foot.