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  • Security fears slow local cloud adoption

    Created: 2011-12-07 11:04:42 Author: Alex Kayle
    Arthur Goldstuck
    While 46 out of 100 JSE-listed local corporations have adopted some form of cloud computing, security and lack of aware...

  • The year in review

    Created: 2011-12-07 10:59:41 Author: Kate Thompson
    Alan Rehbock, sales director, sub-Saharan Africa at Exinda
    Among Gartner’s top 10 technologies and trends it predicted would be strategic...

  • SA’s evolutionary stall

    Created: 2011-12-07 10:39:50 Author: Nicola Mawson

    South Africans will have to wait for some time more before they can benefit from mobile broadband speeds of up to double the current...

  • Recommended Reading

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:30:17 Author: Staff writer

    The Social Customer


    Adam Metz, author of The Social Customer, believes if you look at the people who follow your company via ...

  • Vodacom pays out R3.8bn dividend

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:27:40 Author: Nicola Mawson
    Pieter Uys
    Vodacom, SA’s largest cellular operator, has paid out almost all of its free operating cash flow in the form of dividends....

  • Ubuntu eyes all devices

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:25:35 Author: Staff writer
    Mark Shuttleworth
    Ubuntu Linux has its sights set on moving beyond the PC within the next few years, according to founder Mark Shuttlewort...

  • Telkom loses R1bn on Multi-Links

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:24:14 Author: Nicola Mawson
    Lazarus Zim
    Telkom’s sale of Multi-Links will result in a net loss of R1 billion, which will affect the second half of the financial year, say...

  • MXit slashes jobs

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:22:36 Author: Bonnie Tubbs
    Alan Knott-Craig Jnr
    The recent buyout of Africa’s largest mobile social media network, MXit, has brought about a change in the co...

  • Neotel turns positive

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:15:05 Author: Nicola Mawson
    Sunil Joshi
    SA’s second national operator, Neotel, has turned positive on an operations level, ahead of its initial schedule....

  • Mustek appoints e-learning champion

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:15:02 Author: Staff writer
    Kobus van WykJSE-listed Mustek, a branded assembler and distributor of PCs, notebooks and related products in SA, has appointed e-learning champion K...

  • Datatec buys Sentronics

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:15:00 Author: Staff writer
    Jens Montanana
    Dual-listed Datatec’s Westcon unit has agreed to buy Sentronics for an undisclosed amount....

  • Microsoft adds two partners

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:14:58 Author: Nicola Mawson
    Mteto Nyathi
    Software giant Microsoft has signed up two more companies as part of its R475 million local equity equivalency programme....

  • State shackles regulator

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:12:40 Author: Nicola Mawson
    Kathleen Rice
    The Department of Communications’ (DOC’s) proposed amendments to the Electronic Communications Act (ECA) will trim the regulator’s ability to act i...

  • Thailand floods cause price whammy

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:11:38 Author: Nicola Mawson
    Hard drive prices have more than doubled in the open market, after recent floods in Thailand affected output at factories that account for about half of all global production....

  • iConnect, Clear Voice merge

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:10:25 Author: Nicola Mawson
    Voice over IP firm Clear Voice and independent converged voice and data solutions entity iConnect have merged, with effect from the beginning of November....

  • The week in review

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:02:23 Author: Patricia Pieterse

    At Home


    Jan O’Sullivan
    Local search engine Ananzi has partnered with Norwegian-based company Rubrikk to rebrand and revamp...

  • NFC nears reality in SA

    Created: 2011-11-22 18:00:56 Author: Kathryn McConnachie
    As local banks and the Department of Transport begin endorsing contactless technology, SA is moving closer to the adoption of near-field communication (NFC) mobile payments, say key local players....

  • Cell C stocks PlayBook

    Created: 2011-11-22 17:58:33 Author: Staff writer
    The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is now available for sale from SA’s third mobile operator, Cell C....

  • Mobile operator drops data prices

    Created: 2011-11-22 17:57:24 Author: Staff writer
    SA’s biggest cellphone operator, Vodacom, has unveiled a promotion that will see its lowest per-megabyte prepaid mobile data pricing to date....

  • No decision on Vodacom Congo

    Created: 2011-11-22 17:56:23 Author: Nicola Mawson
    It will be another month or two before it decides whether to shed its stake in Vodacom Congo, says SA’s largest cellular operator....