Apr 22, 2014
The latest member of Samsung’s popular line of Galaxy smartphones ups the ante on features – and on cost – with the S5’s discrete-intensive design yielding a high bill of materials (BOM). The Samsung Galaxy S5 with 32Gb of NAND flash memory carries a BOM...
Apr 14, 2014
The fast-paced telecoms sector is one of the fastest growing industries in South Africa. Even so, we still lag behind the rest of the world in terms of Internet penetration, speed and cost. In recent years, with the arrival of new undersea fibre optic cables piping...
Mar 18, 2014
Approximately 90% of the 6,4-million South Africans that access the Internet in South Africa do so solely from their mobile phones, according to the latest statistics from World Wide Worx. In light of this, the theme of this year’s World Consumer Rights Day – “the...
Jan 27, 2014
The average cost of multimedia files that a user might lose from a device as a result of a cyber-attack or other damage is estimated at $418, according to the Consumer Security Risks Survey conducted by B2B International and Kaspersky Lab. Many of these losses could...
Nov 1, 2013
Cybercrime is costing businesses, and not just in terms of the bottom line. Compliance infringement is hugely expensive, made doubly so by the fact that compliance is hard to achieve, as many data breaches can be due to third party blunders. It is also quite a...
