by Kathy Gibson | Aug 16, 2021 | Features
By Shane Chorley – The dial up tones of 56kbps modems are unmistakable to Internet veterans in South Africa. Not only could you not use your landline when you wanted to connect to the Internet, users had to deal with challenges such as backlogs of emails when...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 16, 2021 | Features
World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Web Foundation co-founder Rosemary Leith have issued a call to enable the participation of more young people in the online economy. In a statement issued to mark the the 32nd anniversary of the Web, they reflect on the...
by Kathy Gibson | Aug 16, 2021 | Features
By Leona Mentz – Developments over the past year have contributed to an increased global focus on enabling a more connected society. The normalisation of distributed work, the associated growth of cloud computing, and an increased reliance on affordable and...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Featured Story, Features
By Kathy Gibson – In this age of digital transformation, it’s sometimes hard to remember that the world wasn’t always connected. But it wasn’t that long ago that South Africans went online for the first time. In January 1995, IT trade newspaper Computing SA ran...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Features
With the Covid-19 pandemic still disrupting business operations around the world, a new round of ransomware attacks has made it worse by impacting companies, industries and whole countries. The year has been characterised by massive, headline-grabbing attacks such as...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Features
Esquire is sharing its 22nd birthday cheer with its reseller partners, promoting a wide range of products. Many successful IT businesses started in a garage, but Esquire had its beginnings on the dining room table of their family home when brothers Mahomed Cassim and...
