How to achieve a happier (and safer) internet

Fake news, hate speech, phishing, fraud and hacking – the internet isn’t safe, but it can be manageable, writes Stephen Osler, co-founder and business development director at Nclose. Safer Internet Day (SID) was launched in 2004 as part of the EU...

Smart security, storage and consumer perceptions under the spotlight

Smart devices are increasingly a part of everyday life both inside and outside of the home and this only accelerated further in 2020. By Davide Villa, business development director for EMEAI at Western Digital Outside of the home, security cameras and other smart...

How we’ll plan our travel differently now

Even as the Covid-19 pandemic has continued to pause travel around the world, it has not stopped people from dreaming about where they want to take their next, somewhat off-schedule, vacation. By Jiten Vyas, regional group chief operating officer: Australasia, China,...

 Weighing in on the great WhatsApp debate

It didn’t take long for the first scandal to hit 2021, with WhatsApp announcing that users must accept the new terms of service by February 2021 or lose use of the application, and the terms were cause for global concern. “You will lose WhatsApp if you don’t update...

Vodacom zero-rates Bright Sky SA gender-based violence awareness app

Vodacom has zero-rated its Bright Sky SA app, which was launched in November last year. This ensures that Vodacom users will not incur any data costs when downloading the app or accessing many of the referral links to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) support services found...

Connectivity will shape the future of movement

The pandemic and the lockdown have reduced our mobility, but our connectedness – via IoT, the Cloud and AI – has helped us overcome this. As society gets moving again, connectedness will redefine the way we do it, writes Pierre Bruwer, MD of Netstar. The...