Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei has promised to hire 500 staff in its South African operation in the next five years, a growth of 50% from its current 1 000 staff, as it ramps up operations in the local market. The company’s newly
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A new, South African-developed mobile application, Recast – on the Web at recast.fm – allows music fans to listen to radio playlists, while stripping out the interruptions of advertising and DJ chatter. Developed by Richard Oakley
EOH has announced that it is acquiring an equity stake of between 49% and 80% (depending on the country) in pan-African IT applications and business solutions provider Twenty Third Century Systems and its subsidiaries. The value of the deal has
Telkom has introduced an electronic tender management system, which it said will herald big changes in its procurement processes. All tender processes will be moved onto an electronic portal
Vodacom is continuing with its strategy to push low-end smartphones into the mass market to drive up usage of its data network. On Tuesday, the operator took the wraps off its latest low-cost smartphone, the Vodacom Smart 6, which is firmly
MTN Business, the enterprise services arm of mobile operator MTN, has announced a number of key appointments as it looks to grow its presence in the business services market. The company has named Mandisa Ntloko as head
Alan Knott-Craig’s Project Isizwe free Wi-Fi project with the City of Tshwane could “set the pattern for social impact bonds” in South Africa, where the private sector guarantees delivery of services, the
Blue Bulls fans will soon be able to tweet from the game or share photos on Facebook without worrying about the cellular network overload so common at full sports stadiums. Vodacom has a deployed a “high-density” Wi-Fi network
John Nash, mathematician and Nobel laureate in economics, died in a taxi accident on 23 May. He was 86. His wife, Alicia, was with him and also did not survive the crash. The Nashes were on their way home to Princeton from Norway, where John was
The constitutional court has agreed to hear the application for leave to appeal in the nearly decade-long case between telecommunications giant Vodacom and Nkosana Makate, who claims to have invented the service “please call me”. After the high