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Blue Label Telecoms, the JSE-listed company that distributes and resells airtime and other prepaid services, turned in solid results in the six months to November 2011 when it revealed the numbers in February. But part of those results included a confidential income receipt in its mobile
First National Bank customers who are registered for the bank’s cellphone banking service can now check their balances and purchase airtime along with SMS, data and BlackBerry bundles using social media website Facebook. The service does not allow for payments to
Incredible Connection, one of the country’s largest IT retailers, is launching a string of small outlets in outlying towns and other remote areas of SA that it says will allow consumers in these areas to get access to a wide range of technology products while growing the company’s customer base
Statistics published on Wednesday show headline consumer price inflation slowed in June to 5,5%. But a detailed analysis of the data reveals that prices in some categories are soaring and in others, most notably telecommunications, they are falling. Although Stats SA doesn’t provide
Nokia Siemens Networks is slashing its local workforce by 28%, Business Day reported on Wednesday. The joint venture was cutting jobs as part of its global strategy to reduce cost and focus on mobile broadband. Nokia, once the world’s dominant cellphone provider, was also shedding
MTN Business MD Angela Gahagan-Thomson has stepped down and will be “pursuing interests outside the company”. She says MTN SA is “restructuring” its operations and she felt it was “time to do some new things”. At the same time, MTN SA chief financial officer Zunaid Bulbulia
Despite slowing growth as a result of a weakening economic environment, JSE-listed technology group Datatec says it is still on target to meet its full-year growth forecasts. The group on Wednesday published an interim management statement covering the four-month period between
Telkom is under fire from Democratic Alliance MP and shadow communications minister Marian Shinn, who has accused the partially state-owned telecommunications operator of being “one of the main sponsors of the SA Communist Party’s 91st celebratory dinner” held at the weekend
The much talked about credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer, developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is now available in SA with no further order backlogs, its local distributor has said. RS Components SA says it is now accepting general orders for the
The Zimbabwean-born and SA-educated CEO of VMware appears to be stepping down. A report in IT channel publication CRN quotes “multiple” unnamed sources as confirming that Paul Maritz will relinquish the role. What’s not known, according to CRN, is whether Maritz, who has
