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Chip-and-PIN cards were introduced in order to reduce the level of fraud on credit cards. The argument is that without the PIN your card cannot be used. However, many bank customers have found that their cards are still being used fraudulently and the only difference now is
Apple has named Arthur D Levinson as chairman of it board of directors, replacing the late Steve Jobs in the role, and has also appointed Disney CEO Robert Iger as a director. Levinson is chairman of Genentech and a member of the Roche board of directors. He joined
Instead of taking away oversight and management of SA’s radio frequency spectrum from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and centralising it in the office of the minister of communications, government should be trying to assist
Listed SA IT company Gijima has formed a partnership with US company MobileIron as it ups its focus on the consumerisation of IT in business. Founded in 2007 and based in California, MobileIron provides mobile device management and security to large corporations
JSE-listed technology and telecommunications group Reunert paid R171,9m for privately held ECN Telecommunications, its 2011 financial results show. Of this, R107,8m was in the form of goodwill, which means Reunert attached a fair market value to ECN of R64,1m
Absa Bank has begun overhauling its extensive automated teller machine (ATM) network — there more than 6 000 of them in the field — adding a new user interface and new self-service features such as the ability to pay certain bills that have special barcodes. It has awarded a giant contract
Wipro Technologies, one of India’s largest IT services companies, is expanding its presence in SA, promising to create 1 000 new jobs over the next three years. Wipro, which is listed in the US and India, and which has annual revenues of US$7bn, is a big player in the business process
Power utility Eskom signed a US250m (R1,9 billion) loan on Monday that will finance the building of SA’s largest solar energy and wind power generation projects. Signing the guarantee, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said SA had a “huge comparative advantage”
Nashua Mobile has become the latest company to jump on the uncapped broadband bandwagon, launching a set of unshaped, uncapped digital subscriber line (DSL) products that are available with or without Telkom line rental included. Each product requires users to sign up for a 12-month
As amazing as it sounds, SA’s Internet is only two decades old. This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the first packets of data that flowed over the Internet to and from SA. This Saturday at 10.44am, it will have been exactly 20 years since Randy Bush
