His seven online aliases, which include Anarchaos, POW and yohoho, suggest that Jeremy Hammond, as somebody who spends much of his time at a keyboard talking to other people with aliases online, is a distrustful man. He now has even more reason to be. According to indictments revealed last week, Hammond and four other hackers were
JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec raked in US$5bn in revenue in its 2012 financial year, which ended on 29 February, despite what it calls “challening conditions” in North America and Europe. For the financial year, the group expects revenues of about $5bn, from $4,3bn in 2011, and profit
Imagine you’re the CEO of an Internet security start-up. Now imagine one of the world’s most notorious hacker groups signs up for your service, to help protect their own website from attacks. What do you do? That’s exactly the dilemma Matthew Prince, CEO and founder of CloudFlare, faced in June 2011. LulzSec — short for Lulz Security — was
You wouldn’t think Travis Rich was about to disrupt the entire communications industry. A lanky MIT student with sandy brown hair and an easy smile, Rich looks like just another eager college kid. But he has the kind of idea that is as revolutionary as it is simple
Vodacom incurred the wrath of consumers last year when it said it planned to throttle the data speeds of BlackBerry subscribers who used more than 100MB/month after some users were found to be downloading 100GB or more a month. Now, Vodacom
The lack of fibre-optic transmission networks outside SA’s main urban centres could prove a huge stumbling block to rolling out next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) networks in rural areas and add significant costs for operators wanting to meet roll-out obligations for these networks. Richard Morse, group technology executive
JSE-listed technology group EOH has reported numbers for the first half to end-January. Without doubt, this is one of the most amazing success stories over the past decade anywhere in the market. The company has grown both organically and through acquisition and done so without fail. To illustrate my point, revenue for the half
If you believe the claptrap coming out of the Apple camp in the past week, then you’ll accept as gospel that the era of the personal computer is over. Nothing could be further from the truth. The PC is alive and well; it’s just being reinvented. Listening to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s keynote speech at the launch of the iPad 3 (sorry, the “new iPad”) last week
JSE-listed technology group EOH has continued its strong growth momentum in the six months to end-January, adding 44,1% in sales to more than R1,6bn and lifting profit by 51,5% to R106,5m. It now has almost R400m in cash on its balance sheet. The growth was both organic and from acquisitions
Encyclopaedia Britannica, mortally wounded by the Web and Wikipedia, is ending the production of its print edition in favour of a strictly digital strategy, the company announced Tuesday. “It’s a rite of passage in this new era,” Encyclopaedia Britannica president Jorge Cauz told the New York Times. First published