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2016: the security challenge

It is a fact that cyber attacks are growing more sophisticated. Protecting a company’s information and data seems to be an arduous and complicated…

PayU appoints ex-PayPal exec as CEO

Naspers-owned payment services provider PayU on Tuesday announced the appointment of ex-PayPal Europe VP Laurent Le Moal as CEO. According to a press release…

5 security new year’s resolutions everyone should keep in 2016

Resolutions. Everyone makes them but not everyone sticks to them. But when it comes to IT security, organisations cannot afford to be complacent. Here…

Rising US dollar sees IT spend stagnate

Global IT spending is forecast to total US$3.54-trillion dollars in 2016. That’s a big number, but it’s only 0.6% larger than it was in…

The big why around using different devices

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) responsive, and multi-device are just some words that today are part of our lives. Multi-device strategies are devised and…

Five big data trends that will impact South Africa in 2016

The use of Big Data has seen spectacular in South Africa over the past two years. It has helped businesses to reduce costs, be…

Learning languages, Tesla, Uber: 5 Memeburn articles you loved this week

In comparison to the raking anger which the year started with, the past week has seemed remarkably calm. Heck, even the stories you were…

It’s time for Africa’s digital dragons to spawn in the cloud

Earlier this year, technology research house Gartner released a report entitled “Taming the Digital Dragon” as part of its 2014 CIO Agenda. In it,…

South African consumers are not happy with the quality of their laptops

Research recently released by South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) suggests that South Africans are increasingly dissatisfied with their laptops. The results of the…

Amazon and publisher Hachette bury the hatchet over online book sales dispute

After months of bickering, pointing fingers, flinging accusations and calling each other names, it appears that Amazon, the international electronic commerce company, and Hachette,…

5 amazing pictures tweeted by Rosetta and Philae

Yesterday history was made when the Philae lander, launched from the Rosetta spacecraft, landed on Comet 67P. Its mission is to transmit data from…

This biodegradable drone made of fungi can disintegrate

A team of researchers from a variety institutions, including NASA’s Ames Research Centre, has developed a biodegradable drone that can disintegrate when it needs…

Watch this incredible robot re-enact a scene from ‘The Karate Kid’ [Video]

In a recent video from Boston Dynamics, an engineering and robotics design company, a robot is shown doing karate. Yup, that’s a thing now….

Rosetta’s about to attempt its dramatic comet landing

The Rosetta spacecraft’s Philae lander is attempting to land on the awkwardly named comet, 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The slightly-above 100kg probe will fall for seven hours. If…

South Atlantic’s first undersea cable will connect Brazil, Angola

Despite a bunch of noble efforts involving satellites, drones, and weather balloons, we still depend pretty heavily on undersea cables for the majority our…

4 ways Salesforce’s wave missed the data analysis mark

If you’re in business, odds are you’ve at least heard of Salesforce. And there’s probably a good chance that you work on it, which…

Elon Musk wants to bring ‘low cost internet’ satellites to the world

Elon Musk never ceases to surprise. Even when the tech billionaire entrepreneur is up to something surprising it’s still in apt character. From building…

Longline: phishing’s most dangerous evolution to date

The past few years have seen a tremendous rise in the use of email as an attack vector for enterprises and larger entities. These…

Is the cloud the real victim in celebrity image leak scandals?

Unless you’ve been ignoring the Internet for the past month, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the iCloud hack that has resulted in the leak of…

Technology and disease control: the Ebola outbreak and the need for modern medical infrastructure in the developing world

When author Richard Preston published his 1992 New York Times article about Ebola, “Crisis in the Hot Zone”, there had only been a handful…

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