Microsoft SA has added two more small, black-owned software development firms to its “equity equivalence” support programme, bringing the total to six. The software maker says the two new companies, both based in Johannesburg, will join its R475m equivalence programme
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Telkom’s share price fell to new multi-year lows on Thursday of below R30/share after it warned the market of poor financial performance in the six-month period ended 30 September 2011 and after it said it would take a further R1bn profit hit related to its
Business is wasting time and money by trying to reach people on social networks sites without a targeted strategy, a global research survey has found. “Three out of five SA Internet users don’t want to be bothered by brands on social networks,” TNS said in a statement
Neotel, licensed more than five years ago as the first infrastructure competitor in fixed-line telecommunications to Telkom, has reached positive earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) or the first time. It reached the milestone
JSE-listed IT services company Business Connexion (BCX) has turned in a poor set of financial results in its 2011 financial year to end-August. CEO Benjamin Mophatlane says the company has had a “tough year” and the results “haven’t met expectations”. Its technology and
These Norwegians are certainly tenacious. Despite Norway’s Opera Software continuing to struggle to gain meaningful market share against rivals such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Windows Internet Explorer on desktop computers, the company
The ministry of communications will establish an intergovernmental broadband implementation committee when the proposed Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which is being developed to replace the 2005 Electronic Communications Act
A project to crisscross Southern Africa with high-speed fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure is gathering pace with news that London-headquartered Liquid Telecom has completed the first phase of a network in Zambia. Phase one of the network
MTN SA is stepping up its investment in network infrastructure, promising to double the number of third-generation (3G) mobile base stations across the country in the next two years to 6 000 and extending wireless broadband access deep into underserved
JSE-listed technology and telecommunications group Altech is no longer in talks to buy Kenyan IT firm Symphony, it said in a statement on the JSE’s Sens news service on Wednesday. “In response to speculation regarding Altech’s interest in unlisted