The open access telecommunications model in South Africa

The Open Access Network (OAN) model has been adopted to a major extent in the telecommunications sectors of many parts of the developed world (European Union and the Americas).  The advantage of this model is that it allows multiple service providers to compete over the same network, in so doing eradicating the monopoly of the

Google’s New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype

Google last week announced the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit, at Google I/O. Built for machine learning applications, TPU has been running in Google’s data centers for more than a year. Google’s AlphaGo software, which thrashed an 18-time international Go champion in a match earlier this year, ran on servers using TPUs.

Cisco to address Cyber Security Risks Inhibiting Digital Ambitions at GISEC 2016

Cisco announced its participation in the Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference (GISEC 2016), which will take place under the collective banner of Future Technology Week, to be held at Dubai World Trade Centre from March 29-31, 2016. As a high level sponsor, Cisco will showcase its strategy of ‘Threat–centric Security’, which includes threat detection,

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What Intel’s new sixth-gen ‘Skylake’ chips mean for PC users

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could watch two, or even three, full-length movies on your laptop during a long flight without worrying about running out of battery? What if your laptop could display graphics well enough to play the most resource-intensive online games while you’re on the go? Thanks to the latest crop of Windows

Microsoft ends support for Windows 8, older versions of Internet Explorer

Microsoft has officially ended support for all older versions of its Internet Explorer browser, except IE 11 and will also be pulling the plug on Windows 8 OS. Microsoft wrote on its website that “beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical

WordPress 4.4 will Revolutionize how we Publish

WordPress 4.4, named ‘Clifford’ in honor of jazz legend Clifford Brown, was just released recently. It’s available to download or can be updated from an existing installation’s dashboard. The latest version of the Web’s favorite CMS is focused on responsive web design enhancements, connecting content across sites, and could signal a new way forward for WordPress.