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Orange Business Services, the IT services arm of giant French telecommunications operator Orange, is gearing up to help South African multinationals wanting to expand on the continent to do so. Jean-Luc Lasnier, GM for Orange Business Services in the
Among the plethora of announcements at Google’s annual I/O developer event was one that should have music fans excited. The company is launching Google Play Music All Access, a streaming music service, beating rival Apple, which is said to be planning a similar product, to market. However, the
The Dryver mobile application is Tops at Spar’s initiative to reduce drunk driving by allowing people to create a network of friends using the contact on their phones that can then be used to arrange a lift home when they’ve had too much to drink. Users can set their status to
Media and technology group Naspers’s share price touched fresh record highs on Wednesday after China’s largest Internet company, Tencent, in which it holds a 34% stake, beat analysts’ expectations in the first quarter. According to Bloomberg, net income of just over 4 billion
The application for the .durban domain has passed the initial evaluation phase of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), meaning it’s likely websites with .durban appended to their addresses will make an appearance this year. That’s according to the .ZA Domain
Johannesburg-listed multinational technology distribution and services group Datatec has reported a slight decline in headline earnings per share for its financial year ended 28 February 2013, despite a 4% improvement at the top line and a strong performance by its Logicalis subsidiary
Playboy South Africa is to end its print run and go digital, it was reported on Wednesday. Editor Charl du Plessis told The Times that the “hurdle of conservative readers” had proved too much for the magazine. “We’re told from the consumer side that people don’t want to be seen buying Playboy
A pay dispute between Solidarity and Telkom will be taken to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, the union said on Tuesday. Spokesman Marius Croucamp said wage talks between the two parties had deadlocked. “Solidarity is demanding
Microsoft plans to work with the CSIR and the State IT Agency (Sita) to launch a trial network in South Africa’s Limpopo province that will test the feasibility of using so-called television white-spaces spectrum to offer more affordable wireless broadband access. The trial will be the third white-spaces trial
BlackBerry has surprised the market by announcing that it will make its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) available to iPhone and Android users. The move raises the stakes in the mobile instant messaging market, where the cross-platform WhatsApp is rapidly entrenching itself as a market leader. BBM will be
