Tshwane taps into WaterWatchers app

 On World Water Day, IBM in collaboration with the City of Tshwane, will launch a crowdsourcing project to help capture, share and analyse information about the water distribution system in South Africa. The project will be driven by a new mobile phone application and...

Consumers lose out with lost cash

People lose an average of $365.00 (R3 373.00) every year because of cash left forgotten in the house or car, or unused foreign currency from a holiday or business trip. A Visa Payment Attitudes Study shows that busy lifestyles mean consumers often lose track of the...

North Korea suspect in cyber-attacks

This week’s cyber-attacks on South Korea could well be the work of North Korea, according to UK-based British IT security firm MWR InfoSecurity. “Many of the cyber-attacks we have seen to date are a lot more covert than this,” says Alex Fidgen, director at MWR...

Trustlink is Swift partner in Africa

Swift, the international financial messaging provider for more than 10 000 financial institutions and corporations in 212 countries and territories, has appointed Pretoria-based Trustlink as its business partner to support the rapid growth in payment traffic across...

WWF urges darkness on Saturday

This Saturday (23 March 2013) sees the WWF’s Earth Hour 2013 taking place, with companies and individuals urged to take part in the initiative. At 8:30pm local time on Saturday, 23 March 2013, hundreds of millions of people around the world observe Earth Hour 2013,...

Telkom denies 13 000 retrenchments

Telkom has dismissed speculation that it is retrenching 13 000 employees, saying that no such decision has been taken.  In a statement, Telkom points out that it recently announced voluntary separation and voluntary early retirement process to its employees which...