Warren Mande Altron Group has appointed Warren Mande as MD of vehicle tracking and telematics subsidiary Netstar, effective 1 July 2026. Mande, who has been Netstar’s chief operating officer for the past nine months, replaces Grant Fraser, who is emigrating to Australia. Fraser led the business for three and a half years, during which Netstar…
The Mexican president says there were never tension over Spainish colonisation, which had become a thorny issue.
Walt Disney Co. is launching a new large-format screen certification called Infinity Vision, a strategic move designed to secure premium real estate for its blockbusters. The label is set to debut in time for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday this December, providing a standardized high-quality experience across thousands of theatres worldwide. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile…
Ammsterdam / Berlin — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) envoy to Sudan, has said that the ‘quintet’ group — comprising the African Union, IGAD, the United Nations, the European Union, and the League of Arab States — will organise more advanced meetings next month bringing together all Sudanese who did not take part in…
A gunman who killed at least six people in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, before taking hostages and barricading himself inside a supermarket on Saturday has been shot and killed by police, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine’s special tactical police units stormed the store after attempts to contact the gunman with a negotiator failed, the head of Ukraine’s…
No consumer data was breached after hackers gained access to “sensitive” technical information, says Lesaka. (Source: Lesaka) JSE-listed Lesaka unit Adumo is assuring its clients that no consumer data was breached during a cyber attack that apparently resulted in thousands of files being made available for sale on the dark web. Website dailydarkweb.net reports that…
Top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says US naval blockade of Iran’s ports is ‘a clumsy and ignorant decision’. Published On 18 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC) says the Strait of Hormuz is closed and that any ship that attempts to pass through the waterway will be targeted, a dramatic…
Kylie Cooper/Reuters Adobe is releasing a new AI assistant designed to help users carry out tasks across its suite of software for editing photos, videos and other digital content. The Firefly AI assistant is designed to take orders from human creative professionals about what results they want for a piece of content and then autonomously…
Iran said Saturday that it has reimposed the closure of the Strait of Hormuz less than a day after reopening it to shipping traffic, but President Donald Trump warned that Tehran could not blackmail the U.S. by shutting the waterway. The strait is closed until the U.S. blockade is lifted, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy said, warning that “no vessel should make…
Netflix co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings will officially depart the company’s board this June. According to a shareholder letter released alongside Netflix’s Q1 2026 earnings, Hastings is leaving to dedicate his time to “philanthropy and other pursuits.” His departure marks the end of an era for the streaming giant he helped build from a…
