By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service\Romania Bureau 21 Dec, 2011
Microsoft is currently investigating reports of a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 7 64-bit that leads to crashes and could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. read more »
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service 25 Nov, 2011
A yet-to-be-patched flaw discovered in the Apache HTTP server allows attackers to access protected resources on the internal network if some rewrite rules are not defined properly. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld Kenya 10 Nov, 2011
The growth of the small and medium-size enterprise sector and an effort on the part of local companies to replicate global business and marketing trends have led to increased uptake of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in sub-Saharan Africa. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld Kenya 9 Nov, 2011
Samsung Electronics and Microsoft have recently bolstered investments in software and hardware to help sub-Saharan Africa circumvent long-standing obstacles to IT development such as power shortages and bridge the IT skills gap through public-private partnerships. read more »
By Joab Jackson, IDG News Service\New York Bureau 28 Sep, 2011
IBM has launched a system designed to help cities ease parking congestion and collect more parking fees, the company announced Wednesday. The service could also help motorists find parking spaces more easily in crowded urban areas. read more »
By Olusegun Abolaji Ogundeji , Computerworld West Africa 12 Sep, 2011
As part of its Global Trade Development Initiative to explore new geographies for its members, India's National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is set to send a delegation to Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya about India, identify potential companies for partnership and build a long term engagement program. read more »
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service\Boston Bureau 30 Aug, 2011
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is known as a big thinker and talker, and now he's hoping to be one of Silicon Valley's biggest party hosts, with more than 42,000 people registered so far for the company's annual Dreamforce event this week in San Francisco. read more »
By Michael Kan, IDG News Service\Beijing Bureau 23 Aug, 2011
Microsoft said on Tuesday it will work with a Chinese operating system developer to create cloud computing products for the country's market, a move that could help the U.S. company sell to China's government agencies. read more »
All was well meant when Communications and Transport Minister Dora Siliya challenged African Communications Experts at a workshop on sustainable rural telecenters in Lusaka last week to come up with strategies that their governments will use to roll out ICT to rural areas. read more »
