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 | Issued by Tumbleweed Communications Future Pavilion Cape Town 2014 will bring a host of innovative technology products, solutions and services from Portugal to South Africa in November... read more>> |
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 | AccTech Systems has once again captured the top ?Microsoft Dynamics ERP Partner of the year for 2014? award and also the ?Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the year for 2014? at the 2014 Microsoft Partner Network Awards held recently at the Inanda Club in Sandton, Johannesburg. read more>> |
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 | Delegates to the fourth annual Wired Women Conference will have the opportunity to hear first-hand insights from some of the top female and male tech and business leaders on the African continent. read more>> |
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 | Oracle has announced that it will be launching an initiative designed to enrich and increase the skills capacity of IT practitioners in Africa... read more>> |
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 | Jessie Rudd Discovery Insure has a really nifty little gadget that it attaches to your car when you take out insurance: a tracking device that can also measure the impact on your car... read more>> |
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 | According to the results of the 'Mobile cyber-threats' survey carried out by Kaspersky Lab and Interpol between August 2013 and July 2014, every fifth Android-based device protected by Kaspersky Lab security solutions was a target of malware at least once during the reporting period. The most popular malicious programmes are SMS Trojans that send messages to premium rate numbers without the owner's awareness. read more>> |
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 | Kaspersky Lab researcher Fabio Assolini has presented his investigation into the Boletos malware threat, a widespread financial fraud campaign targeting Brazilian users, at the Virus Bulletin conference. read more>> |
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 | AccessData is the gold sponsor for the MyWorld of Tomorrow (MWOT), taking place 16-18 October 2014 at the Sandton Convention Centre... read more>> |
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 | Kalvin Subbadu The data explosion is a well-known fact, and big data is having a profound impact not only on the volume of data but also the variety of data generated and the velocity at which it is being created. read more>> |
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 | According to Gartner*, by 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs will be created globally to support big data, a clear indication that big data continues to make a large impact on organisations - but have you asked your customers for permission to analyse their data? read more>> |
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 | Ryan Naudé Big data may no longer be a buzzword - the concept of big data, creating big data stores and analysing against these effectively is common practice. However, big data is still a bit of a 'fuzzword', as I like to call it, because there are no industry-accepted or concrete definitions to tick off and go through and finally say: 'I have big data.' read more>> |
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 | The dramatic advancement of technology over the past five years has resulted in a gap in IT competencies and skills availability. read more>> |
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 | Huawei has announced that it will be investing over $4 billion in Fixed Broadband (FBB) technology research and development over the next three years. The investment will focus on products and solutions that will support customers by providing an improved service experience for end-users. read more>> |
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 | Dawie Botes Having worked in corporate offices for years, I've picked up on an alarming situation plaguing our electricity supply. I call them 'Derelicts'; the remnants of people's positions, still hanging around long after someone have left an office... read more>> |
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 | Worldwide IT spending is projected to surpass $3.9 trillion in 2015, a 3.9% increase from 2014, and much of this spending will be driven by the digital industrial economy, according to Gartner. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A supplier enlisted to make sapphire screens for Apple mobile devices has asked a bankruptcy court to free it from contracts that it branded "oppressive and burdensome." read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: The head of the agency entrusted to essentially run the internet said that the group is on course to break free of US oversight late next year. read more>> |
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 | BERLIN, GERMANY: Google boss Eric Schmidt said his company's biggest competition as a search engine came from e-commerce company Amazon, and not from other search engines. read more>> |
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 | LOS ANGELES, USA: A newly-wed US woman with terminal cancer has announced plans online to end her life on 1 November to die with dignity and without debilitating pain. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A huge trove of evidently intercepted Snapchat images and videos were exposed online last week, raising fears about what may be revealed in messages intended to vanish seconds after being viewed. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella's gaffe over women, pay raises comes as the US technology sector is facing up to questions over diversity and gender equality. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Really high speed Internet connections are likely open up new kinds of communication such as "telepresence" and improve services such as remote health care, a survey of experts has shown. read more>> |
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 | NEW DELHI, INDIA: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said his social media network wanted to help India's new prime minister connect remote villages in the country so over 1.2bn people living in the country had access to the internet. read more>> |
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: The US Apple and Google brands which have become household names around the world are worth more than $100bn each, and top a ranking of the world's biggest brands, consultancy Interbrand said. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: AT&T will have to pay $105m to settle investigations that it added charges to mobile phone bills for unauthorised third-party services such as horoscopes and "fun facts," officials confirmed. read more>> |
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 | NEW DELHI, INDIA: India's new right-wing government has begun an online trial to register staff attendance records, in an effort to lower absenteeism among the country's notoriously work-shy bureaucrats. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Online voting has the potential to boost election participation around the world, but is not yet ready to be widely rolled out due to security risks, a US study shows. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Yahoo said some of its servers were breached briefly by hackers, but that the attack was unrelated to the newly discovered Shellshock vulnerability, and that no user data was compromised. read more>> |
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 | FRANKFURT, GERMANY: Germany's book publishers are ready to face down competition from online retailer Amazon as the retailer is probed by the European Union of its tax deals, pricing disputes and market dominance. read more>> |
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 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: The European Union has snagged Amazon as the authorities widen their probe into sweetheart tax deals for major multinationals, saying these are unfair to competitors and taxpayers. read more>> |
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 | South African Airlines (SAA) has warned the public about fraudulent websites that reportedly have information on the Cadet Pilot Development Programme. Applications for positions are now closed. read more>> |
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 | The Dube TradePort in Durban is an Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), joining three other similar economic zones spread out across the country. read more>> |
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