Afrihost extends mobile data promo

Afrihost has extended its Double Mobile Data promotion to the middle of 2014. The company has been running Double Data promotions since its mobile data launch in September last year and initially promised to keep the specials running until the end of February 2014....

Opportunities with software-defined anything

While many companies are still considering how best to implement a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy, the emergence of software-defined anything (SDx) that links even more types of devices and corporate assets to a global network, promises additional opportunities...

Half the world’s users offline in outage

In what has been described at the biggest Internet outage ever, 500-million Chinese users were unable to load sites for about eight hours on Tuesday. It is now believed that the culprit was China’s own security system – dubbed the Great Firewall – that was to blame,...

Online transactions top Internet concern

Almost 98% of computer users enjoy the ease and convenience of shopping and banking on their PCs, Macs, tablets and smartphones, according to a global survey from B2B International and Kaspersky Lab. That means just 2% of respondents say they never use their PCs or...
The mystery of the Mars rock

The mystery of the Mars rock

NASA’s Curiosity rover has pictured a rock on the Mars surface – on a piece of ground where a previous photograph showed nothing. Before-and-after pair of images of the same patch of ground in front of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity 13 days apart...

Neotel invests in reducing network latency

Neotel has made significant investments to reduce network latency between South Africa and other BRICS countries. Network latency determines the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to get from one point to another. According to Abid Qadiri, chief of Business...