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SA mobile instant messaging and social networking company MXit has signed an agreement with UCS Group subsidiary wiWallet to give its users a new payment platform. Herman Heunis, founder and CEO of MXit

Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem, write Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

Siemens has declined to comment on a decision by the department of labour to terminate its 10-year IT contract with the German-owned firm, saying it has not seen a report which recommended

President Jacob Zuma said little about IT or telecommunications in his state of the nation address, delivered in parliament on Thursday evening. Zuma’s speech, which focused heavily on job creation

Trade unions expressed concern on Thursday over Telkom’s proposed voluntary severance packages. The leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU)…

Cape Town-based start-up Afrozaar thinks there’s a big future in merging cloud computing (computing on the Internet) and mobile telephony to offer hosted mobile applications to the corporate market

The original panel of the ZA Tech Show reassemble this week for a special, re-launch episode. They discuss Motorola’s Super Bowl Xoom commercial, gadget pricing, Nokia’s strategy and tablet rumours, and much more

Telkom has reinstated plans to offer employees voluntary retrenchment and early retirement packages in a bid to cut costs. The telecommunications company offered severance to managerial staff last year

The R35m sale of 51% of disaster-recovery firm Continuity SA by JSE-listed outsourcing specialist the Dialogue Group, has been finalised. CoroCapital, the investment banking firm

Smartphone sales soared 72,1% from 2009 to 2010 and accounted for 19% of total mobile communications device sales, new research from Gartner shows. That means nearly one in five phones now sold is a smartphone