Pre-paid electricity meters linked to energy poverty, food insecurity
A doctoral thesis by Isaac Kwamena Nunoo from the University of Cape Town's (UCT) School of Economics has highlighted the crucial role of electricity in enhancing household welfare in Ghana and South Africa. The thesis explores the impact of electricity and fuel usage...
ISPA echoes calls for regulatory support for MVNOs
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Disappointing Q2 results drive urgency to boost Meta ad business
Meta has reported its first-ever year-over-year drop in revenue. Rachel Foster Jones, thematic analyst at GlobalData, offers her view: "Meta is facing the perfect storm, from slashed advertising budgets due to inflation, Apple's crackdown on privacy, competition with...
Electronic visas could transform travel
SITA today announced the launch of SITA eVisa and SITA Electronic Travel Authorisation to meet the rapidly-growing demand from governments for digital visa systems to stimulate national economies after Covid-19, strengthen security and improve the travel experience....
Malware campaign hunts Discord messenger users
On July 26, using the internal automated system for monitoring open-source repositories, Kaspersky researchers identified a malicious campaign dubbed LofyLife. The campaign employed four malicious packages spreading Volt Stealer and Lofy Stealer malware in the...
SA data breach costs at an all-time high
IBM Security has released the annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, revealing costlier and higher-impact data breaches than ever before, with the average cost of a data breach in South Africa reaching an all-time high of R49,25-million for surveyed organisations. With...
$230k up for grabs in app contest
Under the theme 'Together we Innovate', Huawei has launched the 2022 edition of the Huawei Global App Innovation Contest (Apps UP). The competition aims to strengthen the skills of regional app developers and drive collaboration to build a connected app ecosystem....
Ransomware now impacts 1 out of 40 organisations a week
New data on cyberattack trends from Check Point Research (CPR) indicates that ransomware attacks now affect one out of 40 organisations a week. The top three most targeted industries for ransomware are government/military, education/research and healthcare. Higher...
Consumers wise to brands that compromise products to cut costs
Sixty-two percent of consumers say they'll stop buying from brands who change product size ("shrinkflation") or quality ("skimpflation") to cut costs, according to Gartner. Only 7% said they would continue purchasing from a brand that cut costs in this way. A Gartner...
Sophisticated firmware rootkit allows durable persistence
Kaspersky's researchers have uncovered a rootkit developed by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that stays on the victim's machine even if the operating system is rebooted or Windows is reinstalled - making it very dangerous in the long run. Dubbed...
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IT outsourcing boosts oil and gas profits
In the heady times of recent years, when crude oil prices raced away to well over $100 per barrel, the world’s oil producers enjoyed a very profitable time. Now, the Oil and Gas industry is being forced to adapt to the ‘new normal’ of oil at a $50 to $70 price point....
Energy investors excited by SA prospects
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Opera Max offers compression technology
Opera Software, the company that brought us Opera Mini, Africa’s most popular mobile browser, has launched the new Opera Max. Opera Max compresses all data sent through Android smartphones with world leading image and video compression technology, so users can get the...
BT supports ABB transformation
BT has announced it is supporting ABB in the transformation and management of its global communications infrastructure across Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. ABB, a world leader in power and automation, will also benefit from improved...
Decoding, defeating document disconnect
A Global Economic Crime Survey conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 2014 reveals that South African companies experience more fraud than their counterparts elsewhere in the world. As these economic crimes threaten the basic processes common to all businesses, Adobe...
Jovago offers Obama top hotel stay
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XDSL appoints ex-Telkom exec
XDSL has appointed Kenny Coert, ex Telkom Wholesale Services executive, to head up the company’s new business development team. Coert will focus on driving new business sales within the enterprise, corporate and reseller (channel) space, while enhancing existing customer relationships and further establishing the XDSL brand in South Africa.
Security in the cloud
For many organisations, the prospect of migrating their IT infrastructure to the cloud is becoming increasingly attractive. The key benefits being cost savings, scalability and more time to focus on their businesseses and applications important to customers. Many adopters have also realised that moving to the cloud can help them increase their security visibility and effectiveness, says Bill Murray, global head of Security Programs, Amazon Web Services.
A ‘mobile-first’ ethos transforms business
Organisations in every sector and every country are currently grappling with the concepts of "digitalisation" and "digital transformation". While these terms have slightly different connotations for different people, the catalyst for transforming the enterprise should...
Mitsubishi Electric expands in Africa
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced the expansion of its business in Africa with the launch of a new Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V office in Johannesburg, South Africa. Starting operations from June, the new branch will focus on market research and business...
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