In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring US Internet traffic picked up an alert. The signal was coming from the Nasdaq. It looked like malware had snuck into the company’s central servers. There were indications that the intruder was not a kid somewhere, but the intelligence
A Japanese messaging app called Line has filed for an initial public offering valued at nearly US$10bn. For an app almost unknown outside Japan it’s an audacious move. However, messaging is there simply to suck you into Line’s mobile world, where the real profits are made. Unlike its rivals, it is already
Former Telkom acting CEO and Cell C CEO Jeffrey Hedberg has been appointed as the new CEO of Mobilink, one of Pakistan’s largest mobile operators, parent company VimpelCom said in a statement on Friday. Hedberg succeeds Rashid Khan, who has decided to retire after almost 15 years in management positions
Mobile phones have become such an important part of our daily lives that they’ve started adopting our microorganisms, according to research published recently in PeerJ. James Meadow and colleagues from University of Oregon used DNA sequencing to compare bacteria living on
Microsoft Flight Simulator was one of the most popular simulator games of the 90s and early 2000s, until Microsoft closed the studio responsible for its development in 2009. The series made a brief return in 2012 with Microsoft Flight, although the title was critically panned and the studio was closed
The technology world is abuzz with speculation about what Microsoft is planning for the next generation of its operating system to replace Windows 8. It was always going to be difficult to create an operating system that bridged the gap between the mouse and keyboard-driven desktop PCs
Samsung Electronics warned its operating profit could fall a two-year low in the second quarter as it grapples with a slowdown in its smartphone business among other challenges – so are the South Korean tech giant’s best days behind it?
A new study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has revealed that the commercial value of unlicensed software in Nigeria exceeded US$287m in 2013. It estimates that 81% of the software installed on Nigerian PCs in Nigeria in 2013 was not properly licensed. In the Middle East and Africa, the commercial
In the main, Africa’s universal service agencies have not covered themselves in glory. Although money has been collected from operators, it has largely sat in the bank gathering interest. Even in countries such as Kenya, which have expended large amounts of energy and resources on putting in place broadband
MTN has named its former South African chief marketing officer, Brian Gouldie, as the new CEO of its operation in Uganda. Ugandan CEO Mazen Mroue has been named as the new chief operating officer of MTN Irancell, MTN’s affiliate in Iran. Ferdi Moolman, meanwhile, has named the current chief operations
