A new, high-profile group founded by three South Africans now living in Silicon Valley and London has been formed to help grow SA businesses into global firms by providing the connections, advice and investment they need to take their ideas beyond SA’s
Retail chip-and-PIN devices can easily be attacked, exposing banks, retailers and consumers to serious fraud around the world, a British security company has claimed at the Black Hat Security Conference taking place in Las Vegas in the US this week. Researchers
Altron subsidiary Bytes Technology Group has acquired Alliance Business Solutions, an Oracle software specialist, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition has been done through Bytes Systems Integration. The rationale for the deal
SA consumers are becoming more confident about transacting and banking using mobile devices. This applies both to users of high-end devices and entry- to mid-tier devices, new research from World Wide Worx shows. As anticipated, the Mobility report, released
“Steve” from “Beep Bank” has become something of a meme among SA consumers. The First National Bank advertisements, which poke fun at the company’s rivals, imploring consumers to switch banks, have become the subject of everyday conversation, with people regularly wondering aloud which bank “Steve” really works for
Hardly a week goes by without news of yet another international traveller returning from overseas only to discover they’ve run up a huge phone bill, in some cases in excess of R100 000, while roaming. It’s well documented that data use, in particular, can lead to phone bills so large that the money could
Government plans to establish a Broadband Inter-Governmental Implementation Committee to oversee and coordinate SA’s national broadband strategy and implementation. Government has said it wants to achieve universal broadband access in SA by 2020. The proposed committee will be tasked
Internationally, a number of PC manufacturers are jumping on the all-in-on desktop bandwagon in the wake of the success of Apple’s iconic iMac, but in SA the options are still limited. Chinese electronics manufacturer Lenovo is one of the few to try flogging its all-in-one machines in the SA market. The IdeaCentre A720 is an
Excitement surges through a school hall set in the vast SA outback as rows of children roar “S-K-A” on a chilly winter morning. The shout-out is for the world’s most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, to be built 80km from Carnarvon along a dirt road that winds through scrubby, dry farmland into isolation
The sleepy SA town of Carnarvon has more churches than ATMs, but science is breathing new life into the far-flung farming centre. The former 19th-century mission station is the closest town to a science and astronomy hub that is forming in the arid central Karoo region where the Square Kilometre Array
