MyBroadband censorship & net-neutrality
MyBroadBand censorship & net-neutrality
Tagged: South African
Thanks to CellC, Facebook’s Internet.org will become South Africa’s anti-privacy internet proxy
South Africa’s CellC CEO Jose Dos Santos “proudly” announced that from today, 1st July 2015, CellC in co-operation with Facebook will offer zero-rated internet access to Facebook and a handpicked number of South African websites. In simple terms, you download a Facebook app...
New Chrome update shames sites with outdated security
In one of my previous posts about SSL implementation is poor across South African financial institutions, I raised the issue that most local banks do not implement security properly. As of yesterday, Google Chrome as launched enhancements, highlighting the insecurity of...
Most used South African iOS apps affected by MiTM security flaw
Update: A second vulnerability was found – read the follow-up post here: Several South African iOS apps vulnerable A security report was released which higlights that more than 1500 iOS apps are affected by a SSL MiTM attack in AFNetworking 2.5.1. It turned...
LinkedIn – how not to get hired
We have moved all our recruitment initiatives to LinkedIn jobs since we felt that South African recruiters add little to no value in the recruitment process – think about it: a typical recruitment agency will charge a company a placement fee...
Impressive Corporate responsibility – Pioneer Foods / Sasko
Commuters along Witkoppen Road (Fourways, Johannesburg) would be familiar with the picture below during rush hour traffic where taxis disregard all traffic rules and drive on the middle islands of Witkoppen Road (or pretty much any other road where there...
Sanral e-Tolls – Kapsch.net is 1bn Rand out of pocket
Kapsch.net has just posted their interim results for 2014 which shows a 80 million Euro liability with Sanral which is the equivalent of 1,1 billion Rand (or like our president would say: 1000 and 1 million Brazilians): In the board-presentation Kapsch has...
MTN Insurance – get your iPhone fixed
I have never been a true fan of MTN (Most Terrible Network) and over the years experienced many unpleasant customer service issues. It came with great frustration that my 15 month old iPhone 4 started having issues with the power...
bidorbuy launches PayPal payment integration
It has only been 2 weeks after the official PayPal launch and we have soft-launched the PayPal payment integration on Tuesday, 6th April 2010. As far as I can tell, bidorbuy is the only South African online auction place having...
NDrive turn-by-turn GPS navigation for Android released
I was pleasantly surprised to find that NDrive has been released on the Android market today. NDrive turns your Android phone into a powerful navigation system up to house number accuracy! The download of the navigation-software is free and once...
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