SA's arms industry is
highly developed, but more investment is needed to keep SA in the technology race if it is to remain competitive. Not only can the sector be a far bigger foreign-exchange earner, but it can also be a far bigger generator of skills and jobs.
Some of us might sometimes think of the agricultural sector as one in which technology is used in farm machinery, some farm operations, and not much else. Wrong! The sector, in fact, is evermore technology "savvy" and now agriculture is
sparking the creative talents of developers.
SA has entered the war on piracy, and now there has been a
large order for an SA-designed VPS Anti-piracy device. South African company Vessel Protection Systems (VPS) has won a large order to supply commercial charterers with more than 90 anti-pirate devices invented and perfected by VPS in Cape Town.
South African Airways has plans for new investments, so the government
guarantee for SAA is "not a bail-out", or so the cash-strapped airline's annual general meeting heard last week.
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At 5pm today, 23 October 2012, Helen Zille will address the annual Silicon Cape meeting, at Trinity in Cape Town, where hundreds of its 6000 members will meet to review the initiative's activity in the year and provide yet another a platform for interaction between entrepreneurs and investors in this sector. 
Kaspersky Lab, the world's largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions, is aiming to boost its presence and intensify its business activity within the African market - a region that is a key focus for the brand. 
Local networking services company, three6five, recently conducted an experiment to assess the South African Internet threat levels and has concluded that there is no network that can afford to be caught naked on the Internet. Three6five co-owner, Jeff Fletcher said that it is critical to understand what a threat on the Internet looks like from a South African perspective and what steps to take to protect a network. 
MTN Group has noted a United States federal court ruling to put on hold a lawsuit by Turkcell against MTN alleging bribery, pending a US Supreme Court ruling whether the case can be heard in a US court. 
South Africa's cellphone price wars are good news for mobile apps, according to Murray Steyn, COO of Vox Telecom, who predicts both businesses and end users will soon have a far greater range of mobile services to choose from. 
Shares in Telkom rose 5.56% on Monday, 15 October 2012, to close at R19 on speculation that the company could merge its cellphone unit 8ta with Cell C‚ Business Day reported. 
Security expert Avira has announced that Facebook has selected Avira to be included in its Facebook AV Marketplace. Avira's top-rated anti-virus security software, Avira Free Anti-virus will now be offered to Facebook's more than one billion active users. In addition, Avira will contribute posts to the Facebook security blog and provide security threat warnings and blacklist information to Facebook's URL blacklist system. 
HONG KONG: Banking giant HSBC said Friday some of its websites had been hit by a "large scale" cyber attack that disrupted online services, but it assured customers that their data were not compromised. 
BitCo offers South African businesses a one-stop connectivity solution based on a next-generation Ethernet telecommunications network that can be customised to provide a truly customer-centric solution. 
