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Internet moves to always connected

Aug 16, 2021

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...

To build a better world, we need to connect the world’s young people

Aug 16, 2021

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...

How the Internet is changing lives

Aug 16, 2021

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...

It’s been 30 years since SA’s first Internet connection

Jul 30, 2021

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...

It’s never too late to plan for a ransomware attack

Jul 30, 2021

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...

Celebrating 22 years with Esquire

Jul 30, 2021

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...

Product security is critical to cyber security

Jul 30, 2021

By Herman Kannenberg, Head of Legal Affairs and Cyber Security, Huawei South Africa – If you follow the news, you’ll have noticed that there has been a significant uptick in the number of cybersecurity-related articles and stories lately. This is because...

Remote working enabled with purpose-designed laptops by HP – brought to you by Axiz

Jul 30, 2021

With work from home (WFH) having become mainstream in South Africa since the first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, there’s consensus that the “new normal” will see a hybrid working model emerge, with employees accessing the corporate network at least partly from out...

Wits turns to AWS cloud for uninterrupted learning and working

Jul 30, 2021

Humans are infinitely adaptable, and the Covid-19 pandemic very quickly showed that we are able to pivot when necessary. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in the world of work and learning: when the severity of the virus became known and countries went into severe...

How Huawei uses its product security baseline in business processes

Jul 30, 2021

By Herman Kannenberg, Head of Legal Affairs and Cyber Security, Huawei South Africa – As ICT technologies evolve and enriches our lives, we’re also seeing growing challenges to cyber security and privacy protection. Cyber security and privacy protection are the...

Fronting and why it’s seen as a serious crime

Jul 9, 2021

The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Commission recently spoke out against fronting, stating that it is still a serious problem in South Africa. Rajan Naidoo, MD of EduPower Skills Academy, believes the B-BBEE Commission is correct in once again...

Pinnacle introduces Cybersecurity Solutions

Jul 9, 2021

Leading ICT distributor Pinnacle is excited to introduce the launch of their new Cybersecurity division – Cybersecurity Solutions. The launch of Pinnacle’s cybersecurity offering comes as digital transformation for many organisations is still very much on-going,...

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