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 | One of the most significant advantages of cloud computing is the way in which it changes disaster recovery (DR), making it more cost-effective and lowering the bar for enterprises to deploy comprehensive DR plans for their entire IT infrastructure. Read more >>
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Mobile devices are everywhere today - but just how many are secured against data loss? Even the iPads and smartphones belonging to those who should know better are routinely secured by nothing more than a passcode. Read more >>
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 | Robert Sussman The evolution of social networking platforms and rapid increase in the production and exchange of information has served as the basis for the realisation of big data and big data analytics - both of which are the drivers behind business development and brand recognition. Read more >>
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 | The Western Cape government said on Monday (20 January) it was committed to extending as many opportunities as possible to the youth, and claimed it would continue to push its strategy that aims to see young people in the province becoming economically self-sufficient by the age of 25. Read more >>
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 | MWEB has announced an exclusive partnership with Fon, reportedly the world's largest WiFi network. The deal gives MWEB ADSL customers, with a Fon - enabled router, the opportunity to join a global community of 12-million WiFi users who act as a hotspot and a growing local community who share their connections with each other. Read more >>
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 | Allied Electronics Corporation's (Altron) subsidiary‚ Altech‚ is to dispose of its 8.6% stake in Liquid Telecommunications Holdings‚ the company said. Read more >>
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 | Local ICT Company, J2 Software, has scooped the exclusive distribution rights to SkyView Partners security and compliance offerings for Africa. Skyview Partners specialise in Security and Compliance solutions specifically aimed at IBMi (previously iSeries), AIX and Linux platforms. Read more >>
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 | Pilot Software, a developer and implementer of point of sale (POS) software and systems for the hospitality industry, is to streamline their mobile integration process, allowing customers to accept any mobile transaction through a simple API. Pilot has selected wiGroup, a leading mobile transaction platform, to provide this service. Read more >>
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 | Creating e-learning content is about to be made a whole lot easier in the Southern African Region. The days of using expensive consultants are numbered with the announcement that LA Intronet (Pty) Ltd will be Easygenerator's value added e-learning software partner for the Southern African region - introducing new international players to the South African e-learning market. Read more >>
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 | Local information and communications technology development firm, Mobile Monday (MoMo Nigeria), will be running a contest for mobile software application developers and designers in the country. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Telkom has asked its suspended chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte to repay the R6m loan that it granted him in September last year to buy shares in the company. Read more >>
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 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korea's LG Electronics said it would start selling its first curved-screen smartphone - seen as a first step to fully flexible products - in Europe next month. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: US chip manufacturer Intel said it will trim its workforce by five percent this year as it shifts from personal computers to powering mobile gadgets. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: An alarm clock in deep space woke the comet probe Rosetta ahead of a key phase in its 10-year mission, European scientists said. Read more >>
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 | WARSAW, POLAND: The Auschwitz Museum at the site of the former Nazi German death camp in southern Poland said on Monday, 20 January, it had launched online Holocaust awareness programmes in Arabic and Farsi. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: It's a fully encrypted smartphone which aims to foil snooping by governments, industry rivals or hackers. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Call it the attack of the rogue refrigerators. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Hewlett-Packard announced it was launching a line of "voice tablets," or outsized smartphones, for consumers in India. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Yahoo's chief operating officer Henrique de Castro is walking away with a stock award of US$20m as the company struggles to boost revenues, regulatory filings showed. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: The Google lab behind augmented reality game "Ingress" is teaming up with HarperCollins Publishers and top author James Frey for an Internet-age adventure in storytelling. Read more >>
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 | MIAMI, USA: A 71-year-old retired policeman was refused bail after allegedly shooting dead a fellow moviegoer in Florida for sending text messages from his phone, authorities in the US state said. Read more >>
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