The South African arm of German technology services company T-Systems has won a R67,5m contract from the department of water affairs to manage and modernise the SAP enterprise resource planning applications the department uses. The contract term is three years and the
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Dave Greenway and Christo van Gemert join Brett Haggard this week for a recap on the goings-on in the technology industry over the past week. Topics of discussion include
The department of communications is “outraged” by a press ombudsman ruling that cleared the Sunday Times of violations of the South African press code and will appeal the decision, communications minister Dina Pule’s spin doctor, Wisani Ngobeni, said on Monday. On Saturday, press ombudsman
Police have been forced to seek help from cellphone manufacturer Apple in the US to gain access to murder accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s phone, The Mail on Sunday reported. Pistorius could reportedly not remember the four-digit passcode needed to unlock a cellphone he was using on the night his
The press ombudsman has on Saturday dismissed three complaints made by communications minister Dina Pule against the Sunday Times. One of the complaints made by Pule concerned the editor of the Sunday Times, Phylicia Oppelt. Pule complained that Oppelt had acted unethically by handing over
Telkom has begun testing fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-business services as part of what it’s calling a “technical proof of concept”. The tests are part of the company’s multibillion-rand project to refresh of its access network into homes and businesses as it moves to offer much faster fixed-line broadband to its customers
Despite Telkom’s tough talk about learning from its mistakes, taking hard decisions and rising like a phoenix from the ashes, investors are simply indifferent to the promises made by Africa’s largest integrated communications company. The news of a R12bn write-down in assets in Telkom’s results
The SABC has filled six vacancies in its executive management, the public broadcaster said on Thursday. “It has become imperative for the organisation, as it is steadily becoming financially stable, to complement this with individuals who will bring immense value as we take the SABC forward,” spokesman
Months after announcing it would introduce a 200MB/month “fair-usage” cap on the popular BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), MTN South Africa has debuted a range of new, capped BlackBerry packages. The company had decided to remove the 200MB cap on its BlackBerry
Thousands of business and residential customers in Randburg, Johannesburg area have been left without fixed-line telephone and broadband services following cable theft in the area. It’s the second time in two weeks that cable theft has disrupted services in this high-density business region