Covid-19 impacts gender equality, erodes hard-won progress
Covid-19 is eroding the hard-won progress made towards many aspects of parity over recent decades. As the Institute for Fiscal Studies noted that the nature of the economic shock associated with the pandemic has touched many old and deep inequalities, gender...
NASA’s Perseverance takes maiden drive on Mars
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars on 4 March, covering 6,5m across the Martian landscape. The drive served as a mobility test that marks just one of many milestones as team members check out and calibrate every system, subsystem,...
Networking drives new Industrial Revolution
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Network Congress in Beijing – Improvements in networking will bring about the new Industrial Revolution as IT and industry become more deeply integrated. In the past 10 years, Internet, mobile and social media has significantly changed...
Cybercriminals mix the old and the new
A combination of newer and older threat variations defined the cybersecurity landscape in the first quarter of 2015. Malvertising, zero-day vulnerability exploitation, “old-school” macro malware and the decade-old FREAK vulnerability are just a few of the highlights...
Telkom expands LTE Advanced network
Telkom has expanded its LTE Advanced (LTE-A) network to an additional 22 suburbs across South Africa. LTE-A is the next evolution of high-speed wireless broadband and can theoretically support peak speeds of up to 1Gbps. The LTE-A expansion will cover areas in greater Johannesburg, the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Tshwane. The size of Telkom’s LTE-A network is unrivalled anywhere in Africa. Additionally, Telkom is one of the earliest adopters of the LTE-A technology in the world and the first in South Africa.
2014 boom for CRM software
Worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) software totalled $23,2-billion in 2014, up 13,33% from 20,4-billion in 2013, according to Gartner. "Large vendors leveraged their acquisitions to extend their position in new markets and to enrich the depth of their...
Ghana fibre optic backbone project successful
Communications across rural areas of Ghana have been opened up by the successful completion of the Eastern corridor rural fibre optic backbone project. Alcatel-Lucent and NITA (National Information Technology Agency), the ICT policy arm of Ghana’s Ministry of...
Wonga customers hit in phishing attack
Customers of Wonga SA have been hit by an elaborate phishing scam that has seen users falling for false notifications. Consumers have become vulnerable to the SMS and e-mail messages with many making contact with the rogues, handing over personal information details...
Job hopping still career limiting
Although the notion of loyalty to a company has changed dramatically over the past decade, 89% of hiring managers from SA’s leading companies polled in a recent survey say that perceived job-hopping will hurt a candidate’s chances of landing a position. The survey, conducted by South African search firm Jack Hammer Executive Headhunters, found that almost 90% of HR managers also say candidates would have to provide a very good explanation for repeated instances of short tenure at the companies they worked for.
IS launches ‘gold standard’ cloud services
Internet Solutions (IS) has launched CloudConnect, establishing what it says is the “gold standard” of versatile, secure connectivity to major international cloud services. The new service provides MPLS VPN connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Dimension Data Cloud, via new direct interconnections in London and Frankfurt. CloudConnect gives businesses the ability to connect to the international cloud-computing solution that best responds to their business, via a single user-friendly portal with market-leading standards of security, privacy and redundancy.
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