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IT suppliers are raising questions privately about an SA Police Service (SAPS) tender, which could be worth as much as R300m, after they were given only three days to submit their bids. The tender, issued on behalf of the police by government’s central technology organisation, the State IT Agency (Sita), is looking for bids for a complex data storage system
Social media, it seems, is going to become a more prominent part of our lives, whether or not we want it to be. Although some of us remain sceptical about the mundane information overload, social networking occasionally has more pros than cons — as evidenced by Waze, a new social networking traffic app that was recently launched officially
President Jacob Zuma on Friday quashed any hopes that the planned Gauteng e-tolling system will dropped by government. “The Gauteng economy cannot afford any impediment to the traffic flow, since such an impediment will stifle economic growth that leads to job creation,” Zuma told a New Age and SABC business briefing in
Absa denied rumours on Thursday that it is planning mass retrenchments to cut costs. Employees affected by its restructuring process, were being given the opportunity to apply for positions across the group, it said. It was responding after Solidarity challenged Absa CEO Maria Ramos to confirm or deny rumours
BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based company that develops the popular peer-to-peer Internet file transfer protocol of the same name, should not be blamed for online piracy, despite the fact that its technology is used extensively by consumers to share copyrighted material digitally. In an interview with TechCentral, the
JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec raked in US$5bn in revenue in its 2012 financial year, which ended on 29 February, despite what it calls “challening conditions” in North America and Europe. For the financial year, the group expects revenues of about $5bn, from $4,3bn in 2011, and profit
Imagine you’re the CEO of an Internet security start-up. Now imagine one of the world’s most notorious hacker groups signs up for your service, to help protect their own website from attacks. What do you do? That’s exactly the dilemma Matthew Prince, CEO and founder of CloudFlare, faced in June 2011. LulzSec — short for Lulz Security — was
Vodacom incurred the wrath of consumers last year when it said it planned to throttle the data speeds of BlackBerry subscribers who used more than 100MB/month after some users were found to be downloading 100GB or more a month. Now, Vodacom
The lack of fibre-optic transmission networks outside SA’s main urban centres could prove a huge stumbling block to rolling out next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) networks in rural areas and add significant costs for operators wanting to meet roll-out obligations for these networks. Richard Morse, group technology executive
JSE-listed technology group EOH has continued its strong growth momentum in the six months to end-January, adding 44,1% in sales to more than R1,6bn and lifting profit by 51,5% to R106,5m. It now has almost R400m in cash on its balance sheet. The growth was both organic and from acquisitions
