Neotel is stepping up its focus on the retail consumer market with the launch on Monday of a new handset that, at first glance, looks remarkably like a mobile phone. The R399 device, made by China’s ZTE, uses Neotel’s
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Vodacom has shrugged off the pressures of a maturing mobile market and falling wholesale call tariffs between networks to turn in a red-hot set of financial results in the 12 months to 31 March 2011, boosting
Pay-TV provider Walking on Water Television (WowTV) has finally received the funding it needs to get a multi-channel broadcasting service off the ground and will have a commercial product available
Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, will introduce per-second billing for prepaid customers from 15 May. Until now, calls were billed per-minute. “All new prepaid customers will be billed on a
The technology behind the controversial traffic demerit project, also called the administrative adjudication of road traffic offences (Aarto) system, is ready to go, says Tebogo Mphuti, CEO of Tasima
The full Android Market, including paid-for applications, is coming to SA and 98 other markets around the world, Google announced at its I/O conference in the US last night. The market will be available in 26 African countries
Open-source software, where software code is open to inspection by anyone, is inherently more secure than proprietary software developed by companies like Microsoft. That’s the view of Nathaniel Borenstein
SA’s largest listed technology group, Datatec, has turned in a strong performance in its 2011 financial year, growing revenue by 15% to US$4,3bn and headline earnings by 46% to $44m. It has
US$50. That’s how much Microsoft is paying for every active user of Skype. The software giant on Tuesday said it would pay $8,5bn to buy the popular Internet communications company
President Jacob Zuma began tweeting on Tuesday, gathering more than 600 followers within an hour of his first post. “Democracy is flourishing in SA thanks to the active participation of all citizens. It’s wonderful