The Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have announced a new set of UN targets for universal and meaningful digital connectivity to be achieved by 2030. The 15 aspirational targets,...

Social media network LinkedIn was the brand most frequently imitated by cybercriminals in their attempts to steal individuals' personal information or payment credentials during January, February and March. This is according to the Brand Phishing Report for Q1 2022 by...

Kathy Gibson at Huawei Connect in Shanghai - Cern has partnered with Huawei on OpenStack developments, to provide the compute power required for nuclear particle experimentation. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a massive computing challenge, powered by 13 000...

A hack believed to target only celebrity accounts on Instagram has also accessed millions of users' private data, says ESET South Africa. The warning comes just days after singer, Selena Gomez, appeared to be one of the first celebrity accounts to have been...

Liquid Telecom today announced it has completed 100G upgrades to key routes on the East Africa Fibre Ring. The upgrade to 100G wavelengths takes advantage of the latest DWDM technology from Ekinops, allowing Liquid Telecom to offer the largest lit backhaul capacity in...

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, suffered a decline of -7,3% year on year in Q2 2017, according to IDC. The global technology research and consulting firm's...

Leading IT distributor, Rectron, has teamed up with Intel and OnApp to provide resellers with a turnkey, hyper-converged cloud solution. The tri-partite relationship will leverage off of existing partnerships between Rectron and Intel. While Rectron has long been a...

South African Breweries (SAB) is looking to create thousands of jobs in South Africa and increase opportunities for entrepreneurs to become part of its supply chain through a series of key entrepreneurship programmes. From rural entrepreneurs to big business, SAB has...

Direct Pay Online group (DPO) is the first payment service provider (PSP) in Africa to receive the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 1 certification in 12 African countries. This comes after the successful completion of comprehensive audits...

Vox is expanding its wireless portfolio through the introduction of several broadband Internet packages using Rain's Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) network, with prices starting at R549 per month. Rain, previously Wireless Business Solutions, recently announced...