Dec 2, 2013
Looking back on 2013, billions of searches on Bing from around the world reveal it was a year of American songs, superhero movies, Facebook love, high-end designer brands, controversial sports stars, European getaways and fierce women. Bing search trends indicate what...
Dec 2, 2013
Almost one-third of users do not feel comfortable making e-payments on their smartphones or tablets, and they do not trust the reliability of mobile device protection when shopping or banking online. The Kaspersky Consumer Security Risks survey conducted by B2B...
Dec 2, 2013
The South African Constitutional Court has ruled that the tender process followed by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) in awarding a contract to Net1’s wholly-owned subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) was constitutionally invalid. However, the...
Dec 2, 2013
Turning mobile phones into wallets has been a dream for a long time. The phone is already an address book, camera, diary, music player, GPS system, notebook, dictaphone, photo album and general factotum – why shouldn’t it also replace a wallet, with all its clunky...
Dec 2, 2013
The International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that the worldwide public platform as a service (PaaS) market is expected to grow to over $14-billion in 2017. The opportunities for monetising public PaaS functionality are high in light of the advances being made in...
Nov 29, 2013
By Mark Davison – After more than six months in the wilderness, one of the local IT channel’s most respected executives, Pierre Spies, is returning to the realm he relishes – as CEO of one of the country’s biggest distributors. Following lengthy negotiations,...
