Jan 25, 2013
Symantec has announced a new strategy that will streamline and simplify the company so it can deliver significantly improved performance for customers and partners. “Symantec’s strategy is clear: we want to enable people, businesses and countries to focus their...
Jan 25, 2013
The share of spam in e-mail traffic decreased steadily throughout 2012 to hit a five-year low. According to Kaspersky Lab data, the average for the year stood at 72,1% – 8,2 percentage points less than in 2011. Such a prolonged and substantial decrease in spam...
Jan 25, 2013
The growth of Internet penetration and online shopping in South Africa has seen the rapid adoption of e-commerce, and specifically m-commerce, strategies among retailers and businesses in South Africa. However, the potential value of what is dubbed t-commerce, that...
Jan 25, 2013
The 2013 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) football tournament that launched last week was recently declared a “protected event” in terms of the Merchandise Marks Act by Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies. The upshot is that companies that are not an official...
Jan 24, 2013
Businesses that capitalise on major changes in consumer behaviour can generate significant growth over the next few years, according to a new report from Accenture. The report, entitled Energising Global Growth: Understanding the Changing Consumer, concludes that...
Jan 24, 2013
Increased adoption of cloud-based computing is expected to impact the way security is consumed as well as how key government agencies will prioritise security of public cloud infrastructures, according to Gartner. The growing importance of public clouds, along with...
