95 Amazon Web Services was recovering on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world’s most popular apps — Snapchat and Reddit —…
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Warning to small businesses ahead of festive season and Black Friday
108 Six cybersecurity tips for small businesses to implement. With two of the busiest seasons for retailers approaching, businesses, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), have been warned to beef up their…
DStv slashes decoder prices and brings back ‘Open Time’
108 MultiChoice is reviving one of South African television’s most nostalgic traditions – Open Time – to mark 30 years since the 1995 launch of DStv. It’s limited in duration, but for…
Xiaomi 15T Series pairs tech and compassion in powerful pet adoption drive
103 Fresh from the global launch of its flagship Xiaomi 15T Series, co-engineered with Leica, Xiaomi South Africa is marking World Animal Month with #XiaomiPETriotism, a campaign that zooms into creating awareness…
Over R17bn in six months
165 Says payment performance has reached record levels following interim board’s commitment to settle claims ‘aggressively’. The new interim board of the Road Accident Fund (RAF) has been true to its commitment…
MTN tops 300 million subscribers for the first time
123 MTN Group has cemented its lead as the biggest network operator in Africa by becoming the first to reach the 300 million subscriber mark. MTN made the announcement at its annual…
AWS outage knocks out websites worldwide
106 Amazon Web Services was hit by a major outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world, including in South Africa, and disrupting services for several popular websites…
Cybersecurity is broken. NEC XON is rewriting the rules
117 The author, Michael de Neuilly Rice, is cybersecurity architect at NEC XON Picture this: a generative artificial intelligence-powered insurance system quietly miscalculates thousands of policies after its training data was poisoned….
SevenC and ASG align to build South Africa’s SME IT partner of choice
112 SevenC Managed IT Services has officially aligned ASG IT Support under its brand, creating one of South Africa’s strongest IT partners focused exclusively on the small and medium enterprise market –…
Why smart glasses keep failing
162 After a series of sputtering starts, it finally looks like all the puzzle pieces are falling into place for the rise of smart glasses as the next great consumer technology. All…