Captain America: The First Avenger, the third Marvel Comics film of blockbuster season, bathes in nostalgia for the black-and-white clarity of the battle against Nazism. Its hero, created during World War 2, is a relic of the days when
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Are you an entrepreneur running a small business? Don’t have or can’t afford a personal assistant to help you with tedious tasks that distract you from more important work? A new Cape Town-based Web start-up, Lessfuss, has been launched that hopes to make money
Online retail giant and Fortune 500 company Amazon is expanding its customer services and development team in Cape Town to create 600 permanent jobs by the end of the year and employ a further 400 temporary employees during peak periods. This adds to the 250
Japanese optics manufacturer Olympus has enjoyed mixed fortunes over the years. Today, it’s best known for its four-thirds, digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) system and its budget compacts. But with the XZ-1 the company is clearly hoping to reclaim a share of the
JSE-listed Altron’s IT subsidiary, Bytes Technology Group, has acquired UK-based IT security specialist Security Partnerships in an all-cash deal worth R72m. Security Partnerships provides IT security solutions and managed services
Delivering fibre to the home (FTTH) will become part of mainstream politics in SA, just like it has in Australia, predicts Steve Nola, who was until recently CEO of Dimension Data Australia. Nola, who has been named as head of Didata’s new cloud solutions business unit
RSAWeb has become the latest Internet service provider to offered uncapped hosting on shared computer servers, joining the likes of MWeb and Web Africa in offering the service. The packages start at R19/month for a product offering 20 e-mail accounts and unlimited traffic
Neotel added 10 000 customers to its retail consumer subscriber base in first quarter of its 2011/2012 financial year and plans to introduce new data plans later this month to ensure that growth continues. CEO Sunil Joshi says Neotel had 50 000
Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia is in early talks with SA mobile operators about offering fixed-cost data plans on most of its handsets in similar vein to Research in Motion’s popular BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), TechCentral has established. For now, only BlackBerry
Analyst firm Gartner says global mobile connections will reach 5,6bn in 2011, up 11% from 5bn in 2010. It expects the number to grow steadily to 2015, when the figure will reach 7,4bn. The company reckons mobile data services revenue will be worth