Articles by Tefo Mohapi

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Mon, January 28th, 07:10 · Tefo Mohapi

Eugene Kaspersky named 2012 Influencer of the Year

Eugene Kaspersky, owner of Kaspersky Lab, has been named the 2012 Influencer of the Year by Channelnomics in recognition of the company’s leadership and impact on the industry. → Read more
Sun, January 27th, 16:46 · Tefo Mohapi

Zimswitch vPayments launched in Zimbabwe, real-time online payment gateway

Zimbabweans will be able to transfer money online and buy products on the web after the Zimswitch vPayments was launched in the southern African country. → Read more
Sun, January 27th, 16:31 · Tefo Mohapi

Women account for more than a third of Davos delegate social media activity

KPMG International has released data showing female delegates played an increasingly prominent role in the public discussion from the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. → Read more
Sun, January 27th, 16:12 · Tefo Mohapi

GitHub’s search feature exposes passwords and hundreds of SSH Keys

GitHub, the online developer platform for collaboration that is also a source code repository, has announced upgrades on its search engine, but exposed passwords in the process. → Read more
Sun, January 27th, 15:52 · Tefo Mohapi

BlackBerry 10 sneak preview, key questions answered

With a few days to go before the "great reveal" by Research In Motion (RIM) of the latest BlackBerry 10 smartphones, the Canadian manufacturer has answer a few questions regarding the imminent unveiling. → Read more
Thu, January 24th, 12:38 · Tefo Mohapi

Mozilla reveals Firefox OS smartphones

Mozilla has launched its two Firefox OS based smartphones as "developer preview phones" which will be made available to developers in February. → Read more
Thu, January 24th, 10:30 · Tefo Mohapi

RIM to discontinue BlackBerry Internet Service?

Smartphone manufacturer Research In Motion has not denied it will be discontinuing the uncapped fixed-cost BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) which has contributed significantly to the device’s popularity across Africa. → Read more
Thu, January 24th, 09:54 · Tefo Mohapi

Zimbabwean Strive Masiyiwa named amongst Forbes’ “20 most Powerful People in African Business”

Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwean tycoon and founder of telecommunications company Econet Wireless, has been named by Forbes in their 2012 list of "20 most Powerful People in African Business". → Read more
Thu, January 24th, 09:13 · Tefo Mohapi

High proportion of enterprise data leaks from mobile devices, reports Kaspersky

A new report by Kaspersky Labs titled “Kaspersky Global IT Security Risks Survey Report” has revealed a high proportion of data leaks come from mobile devices. → Read more
Thu, January 24th, 08:20 · Tefo Mohapi

Zimbabwean bank’s website hacked and defaced, subsequently placed “under maintenance”

Metropolitan Bank has suffered at the hands of malicious hackers after its website was hacked and defaced earlier in the week by a group calling themselves "Qifwhysoserious". → Read more
Thu, January 24th, 08:10 · Tefo Mohapi

Helen Zille denies knowledge of SA’s Telkom sponsorship of TNA events, video suggests otherwise

A video on YouTube shows Helen Zille specifically thanking Telkom for sponsoring The New Age's (TNA) business breakfast event and for "making it happen", even though the Democratic Alliance (DA) leader announced she was pulling out of such events because she was unaware of the funding. → Read more
Thu, January 24th, 05:21 · Tefo Mohapi

Banking malware used in South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana can now spread through Skype

Banking malware code known as Shylock has been modified and updated to be able to spread to devices using Microsoft’s Skype software, and is targeting African countries. → Read more
Wed, January 23rd, 17:44 · Tefo Mohapi

Dimension Data to provide global support for Riverbed deployments

Dimension Data, the South African US$5.8 billion global ICT solutions and services provider, will deliver global support for Riverbed’s WAN optimisation deployments as it looks to build closer relations with global clients. → Read more
Wed, January 23rd, 17:17 · Tefo Mohapi

RIM announces BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 is available for download

Research In Motion’s (RIM) new Multi Platform Enterprise Mobility Management Solution, BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 (BES10), is now available for download, ahead of the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone and operating system in South Africa. → Read more
Wed, January 23rd, 17:13 · Tefo Mohapi

Looking to migrate applications to the cloud? SA ICT company believes it can help

One of the largest and most prominent ICT companies in South Africa believes it has the solutions for organisations looking to migrate their applications to the cloud. → Read more
Mon, January 21st, 16:38 · Tefo Mohapi

Kaspersky Lab predicting a great shift in IT by 2030

The future of IT will dramatically shift by 2030 as a result of cloud computing, augmented reality, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology according to Kaspersky Lab’s director of European Global Research and Analysis Team, Magnus Kalkuhl. → Read more
Mon, January 21st, 16:16 · Tefo Mohapi

Troubled SONY to sell their New York headquarters to raise cash

Sony's financial troubles could be worse than imagined after the company announced it had agreed to sell its New York base to a consortium led by property developers. → Read more
Mon, January 21st, 11:31 · Tefo Mohapi

Dimension Data achieves Cisco Cloud Provider Certification with Cisco Powered Cloud Service

South African ICT services and solutions provider, Dimension Data, announced last week that it had achieved Cisco Cloud Provider Certification with a Cisco Powered Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) designation. → Read more
Mon, January 21st, 11:26 · Tefo Mohapi

Samuel Eto’o’s Cameroon based Set’Mobile appoints new CEO

The Mobile Virtual Network Operator company owned by popular Cameroon footballer, Samuel Eto'o, has appointed Herve Perrin as its new Chief Executive. → Read more
Fri, January 18th, 05:16 · Tefo Mohapi

Data the new “cloud computing oil” according to UK’s Ovum

Cloud computing will continue growing in 2013, but will take another five years to develop into “adulthood”, according to UK based technology analyst company Ovum in a report, 2013 Trends to Watch: Cloud Computing. → Read more