Viruses, malware, spyware and spam are all common terms in today’s connected world, and most users who access the Internet using a PC, laptop or notebook would not dream of doing so without some sort of security solution. Cybercrime has become the world’s most profitable underworld ‘business’ and users are now aware of the need [...]
Nashua Mobile has promoted its operations director Chris Radley to the post of managing director with immediate effect. Radley brings a wealth of information and communications technology (ICT) industry experience to his new role. Radley, a chartered accountant, started his career as an audit manager at Coopers & Lybrand. He then worked at Siltek Distribution [...]
Turn 10’s highly-successful racer Forza Motorsport 4 will be adding a couple more cars to the garages of players, the second pack for the year. Called the December IGN Pack, which launches on 6 December 2011, the pack adds 10 more cars – and will cost gamers 560 Points for those without a DLC season [...]
Communication is vitally important for most users, and with Facebook adding more users by the day, ForgetMeNot Africa has come up with a solution to keep the people of the remote islands of Cape Verde connected. The company launched the first Internet-free Facebook, email and online chat service for Portuguese-speaking Africans, and mobile operator T-Mais [...]
eBusiness service provider iGroup has warned that online shoppers seeking festive season gifts for friends and family may be left out of pocket by criminals who steal credit card data. The group, which runs secure e-commerce websites for many reputable South African retailers, has seen a massive rise in online shopping over the festive season, [...]
Telecommunications services provider Bharti Airtel celebrated a significant milestone when it acquired its 50 millionth mobile customer in Africa. Airtel has achieved this milestone within just 17 months of acquiring Zain’s mobile operations in 16 African countries and added 14 million new mobile customers during this period. “This milestone demonstrates our continued dedication and commitment [...]
Microsoft has had an incredible year, and it seems as if they will be ending it on a high. The company announced that the sold almost a million Xbox360 units in just one week, which is their biggest sales week in the history of Xbox. “We have seen tremendous excitement from customers for our hot [...]
Lower costs and greater efficiency have long been common refrains in IT, and will continue to be. But with IT becoming more central to a business’s ability to launch new products and deliver services, CIOs and IT leaders have become increasingly concerned with their infrastructure’s ability to execute — and are more concerned that IT [...]
As companies pay more attention to the growing complexity of securing their corporate data, many are realising that traditional security solutions such as firewalls, intrusion detection and antivirus only address a limited extent of the external threats that exist; these threats can come from inside the network as well. Internal security breaches and malicious attacks [...]
For years now, we in the cyber security industry have been saying an explosion of mobile malware is just around the corner. Beginning in earnest this year, we have indeed observed a marked increase in threats targeting mobile devices – particularly the Android platform. However, it’s probably not accurate to say the expected explosion has [...]
Interactive Intelligence Group Inc., a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, has been ranked No. 8 by Forbes Magazine among America’s Best Small Companies. This is the second year in a row Interactive Intelligence has made the Forbes list, which is composed of the 100 best-performing American public companies with under $1 billion [...]