Listed technology company Gijima has plunged deep into the red, reporting a headline loss of 21,73c/share in the year to June 2011 on the back of the settlement of a controversial IT deal with the department of home affairs. The company was
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To foster competition in telecommunications, it’s important that local-loop unbundling does not apply only to the fixed access lines owned by Telkom. It must also be extended to the mobile operators. That’s the view of MWeb CEO Rudi Jansen
BlackBerry’s star appears to be waning, especially in developed markets in Europe and the US, with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android threatening to eclipse it in smartphones. But BlackBerry maker, Canada’s Research in Motion
The department of communications wants to use the sale of radio frequency spectrum in “high-demand bands” to facilitate the entrance of new infrastructure competitors in SA’s telecommunications industry. “We should allow licensees
The department of communications is determined that SA will meet a self-imposed deadline of switching off analogue television broadcasts by December 2013. Deputy communications minister Obed Bapela says “notwithstanding recent
Dimension Data, the SA technology group now owned by Japan’s Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) Corp, remains on the prowl for acquisitions following the recent purchase of US-based cloud computing specialist OpSource. CEO Brett Dawson says the group
Hewlett-Packard’s share price tanked in after-hours trade on Thursday after it said it was abandoning WebOS, its operating system for tablets and mobile devices, and pulling the plug on its Apple iPad rival, the TouchPad. What surprised the technology industry
Energy minister Dipuo Peters wants copper theft to be classified as economic sabotage. Peters told media at the government’s infrastructure development cluster briefing on Thursday that her department had written to justice minister Jeff Radebe to suggest that
Some of the broadband packages being offered by mobile operators are not sustainable in the short or the medium term but may become so in a few years once mobile networks based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology become more pervasive. That’s the view
MTN wants to share spectrum in the so-called “digital dividend” band with television broadcasters so it can begin rolling out a wireless broadband network across the country using next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) technology. “I would deploy LTE across