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During the holidays cybercriminals kept themselves busy, hacking websites and stealing all the data they could find. South African Postbank, a financial institution owned by SA Post Office, is one of the victims, the hackers stealing around $6.7 Million (€4.6 Million).
Fin24 reports that the National Intelligen... |
17 January 2012
07:23 GMT |
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The so-called 419 scams, or Nigerian scams, which start with an email telling the recipient that he could win diamond mines or millions in exchange for their assistance, can sometime turn real ugly and end with the victim being kidnapped. Such is the case of a South Korean man and his daughter who responded to a Sout... |
14 January 2012
05:27 GMT |
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A new statistic provided by the WWF reveals that, during the last 10 months, poachers succeeded in killing more rhinos than they did last year, across South Africa.
After they announced that the ecosystem from Vietnam has no more rhinos, officials from South Africa National Parks have now indicated that this year 3... |
3 November 2011
03:39 GMT |
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South African Vodafone affiliate, Vodacom, announced the immediate availability of a Webbook device powered by the newly released Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.The 10-inch netbook runs the newest version of Ubuntu, on a Cortex A8-based Freescale i.MX51 CPU @ 800-900MHz, with 512MB of system RAM, 4GB ... |
21 October 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Christopher Henshilwood from the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg along with his team discovered that people had a great interested for art even 100,000 years ago. They have reached this conclusion after studying two new found abalone shells in Blombos Cave, located i... |
14 October 2011
02:56 GMT |
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Recently, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion and wireless carrier Vodacom announced the release of BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone on the market in South Africa.
This is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone to date, measuring only 10.5mm thick, and is also the first smartphone in RIM's Bold lineup ... |
8 September 2011
19:01 GMT |
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The era of tablet PCs is here, and users in South Africa can also take full advantage of it with the Motorola XOOM tablet PC that Motorola has just announced as being on its way to various wireless carriers in the country. The Android 3.0 Honeycomb-based tablet PC is set to make an appearance on the airwaves of Cell... |
18 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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A new Motorola handset was just announced for the South African market, namely the Motorola ATRIX, a dual-core smartphone set to hit a wide range of wireless carriers in the country before the end of this month. The smartphone was announced as being on its way to Vodacom, Cell C, 8ta and MTN in August 2011. It will ... |
18 August 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Google is announcing a couple of grants for two South African foundations of great importance. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu both played a crucial role in abolishing apartheid in South Africa and their legacy will now be preserved online thanks to the digitization efforts of Google.With the grants, worth $1.25 mill... |
9 March 2011
10:37 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of a phishing campaign targeting users of Bidorbuy, the largest South African Internet auction website.The rogue emails purport to come from a hello@bidorbuy.co.za address and bear a subject of "Attention! Your BidorBuy account was stolen!"This is a classic phishing attack where ... |
21 February 2011
10:58 GMT |
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The South African Mail & Guardian newspaper was forced to take its website offline in order to protect users after it was repeatedly targeted by hackers.The weekly newspaper's mg.co.za website is quite popular in the country and is visited by over half a million people every month.Yesterday, the news site's... |
26 January 2011
12:55 GMT |
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A group of investigators was recently able to show without a doubt that an ancient meteorite impact took place around the Vaal River, in South Africa. Details of the ancient catastrophe were preserved in stones at the affected locations, scientists say.Using grains of the chemical compounds quartz, zircon, and monazi... |
2 December 2010
05:02 GMT |
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In an isolated region in South Africa, there is a remote place very rich in fossilized remains, which have been extremely well preserved for the past half a billion years, and a team of geologists from the University of Leicester’s Department of Geology, found out how did all these fossils get there.Their expla... |
29 November 2010
06:49 GMT |
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South Africa is on track to get Apple’s iPhone 4 even earlier than China, despite an official announcement from Apple saying the next iPhone 4 launch will occur in the Asian territory.A report by Fin24.com claims that the iPhone 4 will be launched in South Africa on Wednesday, and that it will be carried ... |
21 September 2010
07:43 GMT |
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Smartphone designer Research In Motion has just announced the launch of its new BlackBerry Pearl 3G (model 9105) handset, the smallest BlackBerry device at the moment, on the market in South Africa, when it would be released via MTN and Vodacom.According to the company, the new device comes with a great deal of impr... |
8 September 2010
13:01 GMT |
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With so little time left until the start of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, fans all over the world are gathering to the southern continent to support their country in this great event that takes place once every four years. Even the supporters that don't have the possibility to view this even... |
11 June 2010
05:43 GMT |
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EA Sports is staging quite the event in order to celebrate the beginning of the 2010 South Africa World Cup, the biggest football event of the year. On Friday, the company is inviting fans of the teams of England and the United States, who are set to clash in the competition, to gather at selected locations and send ... |
10 June 2010
04:02 GMT |
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If you’re a football fan, there’s probably just one place you’d like to be for the coming month, South Africa. With the world’s best teams fighting for the title of world champion, the action doesn’t get any hotter than this. Of course, if you’re like most fans, you’ll be wat... |
8 June 2010
10:39 GMT |
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With the 2010 World Cup literally kicking off in a few days, Google is getting the football fever just like the rest of the world. While Googlers don’t seem to be the biggest football fans, the scale of the event couldn’t be ignored. Plenty of its products are getting World Cup-themed features, including ... |
8 June 2010
08:52 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has recently held a Samsung Bada Developer Day in Johannesburg, South Africa, where it offered Samsung S8500 Wave units to every journalist and programmer present at the event. In addition, the handset vendor also announced that more devices running under the bada operating sy... |
25 May 2010
10:40 GMT |
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YouTube has just celebrated its fifth birthday, but there’s no time to stop enjoying it. The site is growing as fast as ever and is trying to expand into new areas and markets. YouTube has now made its first foray into Africa with the launch of YouTube South Africa. It’s more than just a localized version... |
18 May 2010
11:55 GMT |
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A new initiative from Microsoft aims to give small, black-owned software development companies in South Africa a chance at becoming global players. Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Maria Ntuli and Microsoft South Africa Managing Director Mteto Nyati announced today an investment of approximately half a billion rand... |
23 April 2010
09:30 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it is partnering up with the Coca Cola Zero brand in order to offer an innovative new service that will allow console gamers to relive and possibly change history by playing videogame versions of real World Cup South Africa matches just a few hours after they concluded. An entire te... |
31 March 2010
04:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up for the upcoming 2010 football World Cup in South Africa, and revealed plans to provide online coverage via MSN. According to the Redmond company, by the end of April 2010, a new dedicated sports news center will go live on MSN, with content from Press Association Sport. The MSN World Cup News... |
30 March 2010
06:40 GMT |
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For a long time, physicists have said that conventional nuclear power is a lot less safe than a prospective new technology, called pebble-bed nuclear reactor. A proof-of-concept for the new approach should have been constructed in South Africa, but the nation's government announced last week that it would effect... |
24 February 2010
03:17 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it will release the official videogame simulation of the football World Cup set to take place in June in South Africa. Officially titled 2010 FIFA World Cup, the football game will arrive on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation ... |
28 January 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee warn that spammers have already adopted the "2010 FIFA World Cup" theme in one of their latest campaigns. The 75th anniversary of South African Airways is used to add credibility to the fake promotion. "It is certainly not surprising when scammers use major events su... |
9 September 2009
06:41 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that it has launched its virtual Nokia Music Store for South African users. The portal offers millions of tracks, both local and international, including Prime Circle, Karen Zoid, Proverb and Simphiwe Dana, as well as exclusive download rights for the Mnet Idols Se... |
24 April 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Vodacom South Africa and Research In Motion announced the introduction of the BlackBerry Storm on the South African market. The smartphone is available for both Vodacom’s Prepaid and Contract customers across the country starting January 28, and comes with support for the BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBe... |
31 January 2009
05:54 GMT |
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South Africans' preferences when it comes to online surfing are primarily focused on employment websites. Only in June, 450,000 people used the employment offers displayed on specialized sites. The numbers are even more significant considering the fact that the average session duration was of almost 13 minutes, ... |
12 July 2008
06:49 GMT |
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Vodacom, the largest mobile operator in South Africa, has announced the availability of the country's first HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) 3G service, accessible all over its nationwide network as of yesterday. Coming to improve the "HSDPA 3.6" service that Vodacom is currently offering, the new HSUP... |
29 May 2008
11:49 GMT |
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The 32-year-old South African star and Oscar winner Charlize Theron has just been appointed the sexiest woman alive - and just a quick look at these photos will make you go "damn right". Theron has followed in the proud footsteps of famous predecessors such as Jessica Biel, Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson whom ... |
10 October 2007
10:54 GMT |
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Every time Google announces its plans to open a new office in a certain country, it is said that this represents the search giant's attempts to conquer the nation. This time, the reports are concerning South Africa as the Mountain View company said it will open a new office in the country on September 3, 2007. A... |
27 August 2007
06:54 GMT |
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