Internet Explorer has been sliding downhill in market share for the past few years, but recently mined stats show something the critics never expected to see: a small but significant uptick in IE’s numbers since the beginning of 2012. Data from NetMarketShare show that while IE had indeed been in a slump for quite some time
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Credit card processor Global Payments released a statement on Monday admitting that its systems have been compromised. The announcement came after reports surfaced that thousands of credit card accounts had been breached through its machines. Last week, security researcher Brian Krebbs discovered Visa and MasterCard were alerting US banks
Cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox revealed on Monday that half of the popular rock band U2, Bono and The Edge, are investors in the company. Dropbox closed a jaw-dropping US$250m round in October 2011, so it appears Bono and The Edge were part of that round that also included names like Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital
Telkom has hit back at ZTE Mzanzi, a networking equipment vendor that was successful in bringing an interdict against the fixed-line operator in the high court on Friday, saying the court order will delay the roll-out of its upgraded access network and ultimately harm consumers. The operator said it was “confident” that its “robust procurement policy and the process
The supreme court of appeal has dismissed, with costs, applications from the Competition Commission and tracking company Tracetec against Altech Netstar in which they claimed Netstar engaged in anticompetitive behaviour. The original complaint was lodged in February 2005 and the alleged anticompetitive behaviour related to the period between
News on Friday that the cost of IP Connect, the product Internet service providers have to buy from Telkom to access the fixed-line operator’s last-mile broadband network, was to fall by 30% from 1 April should lead to lower retail prices as early as this week. However, service providers polled by TechCentral on Monday still want to understand the mechanics
Is any other film ageing as gracefully as The Godfather, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in March this year? Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia saga is as compelling now as it was then, a film that perfectly fuses a director’s personal vision with epic themes and that effortlessly reconciles artistic flair with cracking entertainment. The Godfather is
Some of the biggest computers you’ll ever see are going to help decipher data from the world’s largest telescope as it explores the origins of the universe. IBM has announced it has won a US$42m contract to work with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Astron) to research the “exascale” computer systems that are needed for
Take a moment to digest this news: Ashton Kutcher, he of That ’70s Show,Dude Where’s My Car?, and now Two and a Half Men fame, is reportedly attached to play the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic. The indie film will simply be titled Jobs, according to Variety’s Jeff Sneider. Shortly after
Former MTN Group CEO Phuthuma Nhleko has distanced himself from a controversial mobile operating licence in Iran that put together a package of bribes, trading opportunities in sophisticated weaponry, capital investment and diplomatic influence that the Islamic Republic could not resist. “I can state quite categorically that during