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 | Fred Mitchell The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend has gained popularity steadily across all sizes of business, from small operations right through to large corporates. This is due to BYOD enabling employees to use the devices of their choosing while business investment in IT is reduced. Read more >>
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 | Gert Swart Cloud computing is nothing new for large ICT players, and it's becoming more common in other industries like banking and retail, but it remains largely under-utilised by contact centres despite the numerous benefits it offers. Read more >>
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 | ESET has recently discovered a malicious Android app named iBanking that is able to spy on a user's communications. Telephone calls and SMS's can be intercepted, which means that the hackers can potentially hack into the users online bank accounts. This is an aggressive attempt for hackers to infect Android smartphones. Read more >>
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 | South Africa is the second-most-targeted country globally when it comes to phishing attacks, said Drew van Vuuren, CEO of information security and privacy practice, 4Di Privaca. Read more >>
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 | Lutz Blaeser Unstructured data is burgeoning. In order to protect and manage that data, organisations need to have systems and structures in place. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Microsoft on Thursday, 1 May, released a patch for a perilous hole in its Internet Explorer browser that hackers could slip through to invade computers. Read more >>
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 | Customer adoption is the single biggest inhibitor of the widespread growth of mobile financial services, especially in rural communities, and will be discussed in depth during an expert panel discussion at the sixth annual Mobile Money & Digital Payments Africa, which is to take place in Johannesburg from 21-22 May 2014. Read more >>
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 | Connection Telecom, South Africa's leading cloud-based PBX provider has attained CounterPath's ITSP partner certification, making it the first to bring enterprise-class mobile voice over IP (MVoIP) solutions to South Africa. Read more >>
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 | When selecting a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider, many consumers think it is important to look towards a company that has its own network or interconnects. Read more >>
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 | BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraq's cabinet announced that it has authorised mobile phone firms to use third-generation frequencies, after years of promises amid the frustrated pleas of cellular operators. Read more >>
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 | OTTAWA, CANADA: Smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry has sold most of its Canadian properties to San Francisco-based real estate investment firm Spear Street, for Can$305m (US$278m). Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Amazon has rolled out a new feature that allows Twitter users to select items for purchase on the online retail site without leaving the messaging platform. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Too much Netflix and on-demand video content has the US capital's last movie rental store calling it quits. Read more >>
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 | MANILA, PHILLIPPINES - Dozens of people have been arrested in the Philippines in a multinational crackdown on the exploding global menace of Internet "sextortion", Interpol and local police said. Read more >>
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 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Even as Europe powered up its most ambitious ever cyber-security exercise this month, doubts were being raised over whether the continent's patchwork of online police was right for the job. Read more >>
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 | SAN JOSE, USA: - Apple and Samsung made their final pitches to jurors earlier this week in a big-money smartphone patent trial playing out in the heart of Silicon Valley. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: French telecommunications operator Orange, with 239m customers across several countries, said it had slowed a fall of sales in the first quarter and increased its operating margins. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Online company eBay agreed to pay US$3.75m to settle allegations it colluded with other Silicon Valley technology firms not to "poach" each other's employees, officials said on Thursday, 1 May. Read more >>
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