Jun 25, 2014
Nedbank has celebrated 50 years of technology innovation, having been the first bank to computerise banking services in 1964. More recently, Nedbank made the pioneering decision 20 years ago to choose Microsoft as its main distributed IT infrastructure. This sounds...
Jun 23, 2014
Ten years ago, Kaspersky Lab reported the discovery of Cabir – the first ever worm designed to attack mobile phones. Unlike most modern malware samples, Cabir wasn’t equipped with a wide range of malicious functions. Instead, it made history by proving that it was...
May 27, 2014
The commercial global positioning system (GPS) is 25 years old this week. It was just a quarter of a century ago that President Ronald Reagan opened up military technology for commercial use, resulting in the first GPS devices shipping to retailers on 25 May 1989. The...
Apr 8, 2014
Today (8 April 2014) marks the 50th anniversary of IBM’s mainframe computer – an event that heralded the beginning of the era of commercial computing. 50 years ago, IBM introduced the System/360, considered by many to be the most sophisticated computer of its time and...
Mar 12, 2014
As the World Wide Web celebrates its 25th birthday today, its inventor is calling for a widening of users’ rights. Sir Tim Berners-Lee this morning spoke on BBC Breakfast about the creation of a bill of rights to protect users. He told the television audience that the...
