September 22, 2020
Information Security

South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria saw millions of cyber attacks in 2020 and the year is not over yet

Kaspersky security solutions have reported on 28 million malware attacks in 2020 and 102 million detections of potentially unwanted programs (pornware, adware etc.) they have accounted for by the beginning of August 2020. These numbers show that it’s not only the malware that attacks users but also the “grey zone” programs that grow in popularity […]

September 16, 2020
Computing

The migration to the cloud and what really happens once you get there | Nutanix

Nutanix press office The benefits of cloud-based solutions are now glaringly obvious to many firms in dealing with this pandemic. Many leading-edge users have now almost completely migrated to the cloud, and some were, in fact born there as cloud native enterprises. Nevertheless, this is not the end of the evolution as technology continues to […]

September 14, 2020
Value Added Services

Kwik Delivery Releases WooCommerce Plugin

. Today Kwik Delivery announced that it has WooCommerce Plugin, Enabling 2-Hour Deliveries For Thousands Of Nigerian Online Merchants. By installing this plugin in a few minutes, merchants large and small can offer Kwik Delivery’s on-demand, just-in-time delivery service to all their customers. Kwik’s platform delivers within two hours in the Lagos State of Nigeria. The release makes […]

September 10, 2020
Uncategorized

Huawei’s new product global launch event unveils new all-scenario products Themed ‘Innovation Inspires Serendipity’

Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) today hosted the Huawei Seamless AI Life New Products Global Launch event, where the company announced six new products[1] that further enrich the 1+8+N all-scenario ecosystem. The new products revealed during today’s keynote include: HUAWEI FreeBuds Pro and HUAWEI FreeLace Pro, new pro-variants of the highly acclaimed audio products featuring […]

September 10, 2020
Internet

Young Africans Do Not Trust Facebook As A News Source, Study Says

. More than half (53%) of young Africans surveyed state that they don’t trust Facebook, says The African Youth Survey commissioned by the South African-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation. This is a troubling indicator for the social media giant, as it pertains to the world’s fastest-growing online marketplace, speaking directly to the negative effects of “fake […]

September 7, 2020
Uncategorized

ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD: Combining High-Grade Security, Simplicity, Performance and Reliability.

Underscoring its mission to enable the world to solve its biggest data challenges by building a data infrastructure with next-gen security, Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) today introduced the ArmorLock™ Security Platform. A data encryption platform that rethinks how data security should be done, the ArmorLock Security Platform was created to help with the diverse security […]

September 2, 2020
Internet

Only half of some African consumers get replies via Social media

The latest report by data firm BrandsEye confirms that only half of Africa’s Telco, insurance and banking customers receive responses form their service providers on social media. BrandsEye used their proprietary blend of AI and human crowds to analyse 688 154 social media posts in the three industries to better understand consumer expectations online and […]

August 28, 2020
Computing

Frankenstein hybrid-cloud architecture must give way to a cloud-first approach | Nutanix

Nutanix press office The next instalment of the Nutanix Connect webinar series will take place on 2 September and explore the topic ‘Frankenstein Architecture – Marrying legacy with the Cloud’. Professor Herman Singh, CEO of Future Advisory and adjunct professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business, will be joined by a panel of IT experts […]

Author: Editor