State-owned signal distributor Sentech has bought the 30% stake of Internet service provider Infosat it didn't own from a group of employees, as it gears up to use its controversial "multimedia" telecommunications licence.
The Lovegate mass-mailing worm has been detected on local servers and is categorised with a high level warning, says security company AVS.
Computrolley.com has been appointed as the local distributor of the Avantstar Transit digital content management solution.
Last week`s "hack attack" in the US, which compromised millions of Visa and MasterCard accounts, barely affected South African account-holders, say local banks.
The ACCPAC Advantage Series version 5.1 Web-based accounting system has been released, says ACCPAC Africa.
Internet service provider DataPro has announced the 6to8 service which offers bandwidth at a reduced rate after hours.
In today`s technology roundup: Civil liberties groups say efforts to block porn threaten Internet stability, 85% of Web sites are found to share resources with other sites and ethical hacker gets off.
SA has mostly itself to blame for high Internet costs, a lack of fast access and Telkom`s continued dominance, the International Telecommunications Users Group believes. But the solution is simple - open up the market.
Air travel will soon be akin to a mobile office, with free Internet access to be offered at airports and on-board SMS and e-mail facilities to become a reality in the not-too-distant future.
The Notebook Company is offering free Internet access facilities to each international airport in SA.
Microsoft has developed an online booking system for local cycling and fitness centre Cycle Lab.
The SA credit card industry says there is no chance of a hacker gaining access to local credit cards - as happened to eight million accounts in the US - because the industry structure is different. But not everyone plays by the rules.
The credit card industry has been rocked further with the news that the number of accounts that have been compromised by a hacker has grown to about eight million. The FBI is involved in the investigations.