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Seacom has deployed Akamai Technologies’ content clusters and caching nodes on its network, it said on Tuesday. US-headquartered Akamai, which operates a global Internet content delivery network, is responsible for delivering nearly a third of all Web
South Africa’s MTN Group and India’s Bharti Airtel have reached an agreement to launch cross-border remittance services between Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso for the telecommunications operators’ Mobile Money customers on either side of the border
Banks and other financial institutions may be forced to shut off access to their online banking systems for those still using Microsoft Windows XP, support for which comes to an end this week. According to Trend Micro, a security software firm, the vulnerabilities in the software, which was first released
An e-mail scam is using the name of short-term loan company Wonga Finance South Africa to trick people out of their money, Western Cape police said on Tuesday. Captain Malcolm Pojie said the Hawks in George were investigating the loan scam. “An e-mail is sent out to e-mail users informing
It’s the end of an era. This week Tuesday, 8 April, Microsoft is putting Windows XP out to pasture. It will stop pushing out public updates for the more than 12-year-old operating system, which once dominated desktop computing. Despite this, many banks worldwide, including those in South Africa, still make extensive
SABC acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was ordained as a priest at the weekend, it was reported on Monday. “Personally, I think it’s important that people can see that I have done well. If you look at my history I am a very caring person,” Motsoeneng was quoted by The New Age as saying after being awarded a
MTN South Africa has warned its customers of a new Sim swap scam that takes advantage of warning notices usually issued by the mobile operator via SMS. “This is another attempt by malicious users to obtain the personal banking details of MTN customers,” it says. The syndicate behind the scam sends an e-mail similar to
French telecommunications giant Orange, which has said previously that it is interested in playing more aggressively in South Africa’s telecoms industry, has announced plans to launch a Wi-Fi network in the country through its Orange Horizons subsidiary. In a statement, the company says it will launch what it’s
A strong performance by Altron’s newly created TMT division, which includes subsidiaries Bytes and Altech, is expected to underpin a sharp rise in the group’s earnings in the year to 28 February 2014. Altron informed shareholders on Thursday that it expects its headline earnings per share for the full year to be between
MTN has announced a new international roaming service for the 21 countries in which it operates in Africa and the…
