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 | Leana Engelbrecht On 13 March 2014, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) announced that it will be instituting a high-level inquiry into competition in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector. Read more >>
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 | As part of its strategy of accelerated transformation and localisation, T-Systems in South Africa has announced the restructuring of its minority shareholding in line with the Codes of Good Practice. In addition, far-reaching changes to the Board will further drive transformation in line with the company's aim of both internal and external nation building. Read more >>
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 | A lot of malicious attachments in February's spam came in emails allegedly sent by women who wanted to make new friends in the run-up to Valentine's Day. Some attackers went even further by trying to hook recipients with the promise of explicit photos in archives attached to messages. There were also more conventional malicious mass mailings imitating fake notifications from popular social networking sites, including Facebook. Read more >>
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 | Late last week business leaders sourced from a range of industries joined representatives from Integr8 and Cisco Systems at the Saxon Hotel to discuss the impact of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Bring Your Own App (BYOA) on corporate security. Read more >>
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 | South African shopping websites have missed the deadline for a new payment system that would protect online shoppers from fraud. Read more >>
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| MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies on Wednesday. Read more >>
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 | The days of mobile data roaming bill shock are over. This is especially good news for South African business travellers heading abroad who can now work securely wherever and whenever they want, while eliminating data roaming charges. Read more >>
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 | Christo Briedenhann The successful implementation of "game changing" transformational technology lies in the back office. Meet the 25% of organisations that are maximising their IT investments, delivering ROI and getting it right. Read more >>
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 | Danette Breitenbach Big data is driving us to a tipping point. Tablets and smart phones have created high expectations and demands to access data wherever we are, and in real time... Read more >>
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 | The Department of Basic Education is forging ahead with plans to introduce an electronic clock-in system at schools around SA to curb teacher absenteeism. Read more >>
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 | Schools in parts of Gauteng have improved the quality of education through the use of information and communication technology, such as iPads. Read more >>
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 | Like email, social media platforms have become a channel for the ingress of malware and a portal for data leaks. Like email, social media platforms have become an important channel for business communication and marketing. Like email, social media is here to stay. As with email, the associated security risks need to be managed, but blocking social media sites is not the solution to managing the IT security risks associated with the use of online platforms by employees. Read more >>
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 | Manufacturers have one thing in common - they need to make themselves hassle free from a supply chain, distribution and services point of view. Many manufacturers are looking to cloud computing to improve their process, supply chain management, R&D as well as front and back office functions. Read more >>
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 | Franny Rabkin Mobile operators MTN and Vodacom will know by today (31 March) whether they will have to cut their interconnection fees in half. Read more >>
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 | Independent telecoms towers company Helios Towers Africa (HTA), with operations in Ghana, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has achieved the internationally recognised OSHAS 18001 standard in the DRC. Read more >>
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 | Text messaging may be dying out as a means of communication in many parts of the advanced world, but it may yet prove to be a vital life-saver in flood-prone African villages. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: In a sign of the growing importance of the Internet "cloud," software group Cloudera said it raised a whopping US$900m to expand its large corporate data services. Read more >>
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 | ANKARA, TURKEY: Turkey vowed action on Friday against the source of a bugged recording of a security meeting on Syria leaked on YouTube, labelling it a conspiratorial "plot" ahead of key local elections. Read more >>
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 | SINGAPORE: The transition to the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6 is set to speed up this year as web addresses under the previous system IPv4 run out, a senior industry figure said at a meeting about the future of the web on Thursday. Read more >>
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 | MONTREAL, CANADA: The struggling smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry reported a loss of US$423 million in the fourth quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, with revenues still falling. Read more >>
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 | LUXEMBOURG - Internet service providers can legally be required to deny their customers access to websites which infringe copyright, a European Union court has ruled. Read more >>
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 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: Samsung voiced annoyance after South Korean telecoms operators released its latest smartphone ahead of schedule in order to dodge sales restrictions imposed by regulators. Read more >>
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 | Vijay Sai Pratap A look at the evolving business model for (mobile governance) m-governance projects and the use of mobile technology as a catalyst for inclusive development. Read more >>
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 | THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS: China's President Xi Jinping questioned his US counterpart Barack Obama about reports that Washington had secretly tapped Chinese telecommunication company Huawei for years, a top security aide. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: The dark world of cybercrime has evolved from one of rogue individuals to a functioning market-based economy with its ups and downs, code of conduct and "innovation". Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google is joining forces with the spectacle frame company behind Ray-Ban and other brands to create and sell Glass Internet-linked eyewear in the US. Read more >>
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