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 | Daniel Hall Application managers and business analysts are being asked by business to redesign business processes based on new capabilities enabled by mobile, social and cloud computing. Despite the pressure from line-of-business managers for new strategies and approaches to traditional business issues, many IT departments resist change due to risk aversion, financial restraints and short-term thinking. Read more >>
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 | MWeb has launched the world's first tweeting couch, which gives football-loving South Africans a Wi-Fi platform from which to take part in FIFA 2014 conversations. Read more >>
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 | Daniel Marcus Project management systems are tools that any business, regardless of size, can make use of, in almost any industry... Read more >>
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 | Peter Davidson Many computer users may not realise that their machines have been infected with scareware until it is too late. As this problem has been around for at least the past decade it is important to be aware of the distress and destruction it can cause. Read more >>
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 | Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered that the old style Miniduke implants from 2013 are still around and are being used in active campaigns that target governments and other entities. In addition, Miniduke's new platform - BotGenStudio - may be used not only by APT style attackers, but by law enforcement agencies and traditional criminals too. Read more >>
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 | Over a decade ago, email worms began perpetuating themselves in password-protected ways, such as ZIP archives, with the password needed to unlock the file included in the email, all as part of the scam. "This trick has rarely been seen since then, until now," said Lutz Blaeser, MD of Intact Security. Read more >>
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 | IT security solutions provider Trend Micro has extended its footprint in Africa by opening an office and appointing a distributor in Nigeria. Read more >>
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 | The consumerisation of IT means that companies' intellectual property and intelligence is dispersed on users' devices and laptops. Most users have security in the form of antivirus and anti-spyware - these have become a given. Read more >>
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 | Marco da Silva In an age where information is currency, data centres have become mission critical to the running of a successful business. However, while the data centre is often the heart of the enterprise of today, it is also one of the biggest cost contributors. Read more >>
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 | According to information technology research and advisory company Gartner, a combination of legal location, political location and logical location will replace the physical location of data by 2020. Read more >>
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 | The percentage of ageing and obsolete devices in today's corporate networks around the globe is at its highest in six years, signalling that the global financial crisis of recent years still has a lingering effect today. Read more >>
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 | Internet penetration in Africa at 15.6% is about half the world average. While some may see this as cause for concern, it is not a true reflection of the level of... Read more >>
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 | According to mobility solutions provider Mahindra Comviva and Ovum Consulting research's recent forecasts on strategies for realising the optimal potential of media optimisation, global mobile broadband connections will cross 4.5 billion at a CAGR of 19% from 2012 to 2018 as demand for data connectivity from big- and small-screen devices continues. Read more >>
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 | At the annual Ruckus Wireless partner awards, local reseller three6five recently won the title as the fastest growing and largest Ruckus Wireless partner in EMEA. Read more >>
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 | The overall winner of the 2013 MTN Business App of the Year awards, SnapScan, has recently been introduced by financial services provider, Standard Bank. Read more >>
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 | The JSE listed and innovative IT company, Adapt IT, recently celebrated the opening of their Knowledge Centre in Olievenhoutbosch, Centurion earlier this month. Read more >>
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 | Johannesburg entrepreneurs Brian Timperley and Louis Jardim have built their company, Turrito Networks, from zero to R50m in just four years. Read more >>
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 | Ernest Mabuza Former Vodacom Chief Executive Alan Knott-Craig's claim to have invented the "Please Call Me" product while chatting to a colleague at work was deemed implausible... Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Trade union Solidarity plans to take Telkom to the Labour Court over claims that the fixed-line provider will use race as one of the criteria for retrenching managers. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Fixed-line provider Telkom is looking at franchising some of its 137 stores as part of its overall business review to reduce inefficiency and cut costs. Read more >>
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 | TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Taiwan's struggling smartphone maker HTC said it has swung back to profit in the April-June quarter thanks to a boost from sales of a new flagship handset, but... Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Extensive Twitter use can lead to conflicts and have other damaging effects on marriages and romantic relationships according to an American study. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: The future of an open Internet faces threats from government crackdowns, and "balkanization" resulting from growing concerns over broad electronic surveillance, a survey of experts showed. Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK - Google has restricted access to a BBC blog posting and several British newspaper stories under a legal ruling granting people a right to be "forgotten" in search engines. Read more >>
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 | HELSINKI, FINLAND: Finland's government authorities said they had been attacked by hackers working for one or several foreign nations who stole a "remarkable" number of files over a period of several years. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Facebook announced a deal to buy online video advertising technology company LiveRail but did not disclose how much money it had paid. Read more >>
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 | HAVANA, CUBA: Much of Google remains off limits to Internet users in Cuba, despite a recent visit to the country by top executives who asked officials to provide access to all citizens Read more >>
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 | Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria is on its way to becoming a Wi-Fi hotspot and is the first hospital in Africa to offer patients free Internet access. Read more >>
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Seeking an experienced senior executive in the cloud computing/property management software space to manage the operations, sales and client implementation activities for the South African branch of Mystrata. Read more >>
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