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
Four years in the making, technology entrepreneur Stafford Masie, through his company Thumbzup, has finally taken his mobile payments solution for smartphones commercial — through partner bank Absa. The mobile payment of sale system, called the Payment Pebble, allows merchants – typically small enterprises and
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
In a five-bedroom house in Centurion, a group of people mill around, chatting, poking, fiddling. They are surrounded by the paraphernalia of their interests – cables, screwdrivers, PC screens blinking with computer code and even a cluster of homemade 3D printers. The back opens into a large garage where onlookers watch
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
TechCentral’s recent interview with Herman Singh, Commerce is mobile’s fourth wave, is interesting coming in the same week that his employer, Vodacom, was part of a court action to preserve its unreasonably high mobile termination rights arrangement. Vodacom, along with MTN, threw everything it had into
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
