The dangers of identity theft

Scores of South Africans woke up to a disturbing reality this week when the British High Commission contacted them to say that their UK Visa Applications together with all supporting documentation were stolen, when the courier van that was transporting these documents...

SA start-up gets R20m UK investment

South African e-commerce start-up Parcelninja, which provides cloud-based warehousing and delivery solutions in South Africa, has attracted a R20-million investment from C5 Holdings. C5 Holdings is the parent company of C5 Capital, the London-based specialist data and...

UK drops HP/Autonomy investigation

The Senior Fraud Office (SFO) in the UK has dropped the investigation into HP’s $10-billion acquisition of Autonomy, which took place two years ago. Bloomberg News reports that the SFO closed the investigation yesterday saying it found “insufficient evidence for a...

Phoenix subsidiary wins Kaspersky deal

PXS Distribution, the UK subsidiary of Phoenix Distribution, a prominent specialised distributor for the IT and consumer electronics industry, has announced its appointment as a distribution partner for the Kaspersky Lab range of boxed products for distribution within...

Attix5 strengthens IT across UK schools

International data protection software and cloud solution provider Attix5, via its long-standing partnership with Capita SIMS, has helped to ensure the successful rollout of data backup services across thousands of schools in the United Kingdom. SIMS is a...