Teraco has increased the speed and capacity of its Internet exchange point, NAPAfrica, by making a “significant investment” in a new, programmable switching platform from Arista Networks. The migration comes four years after the
Few things motivate Samsung employees like the opportunity to take advantage of weakness at Apple. Earlier this year, managers at the Korean company began hearing the next iPhone wouldn’t have any eye-popping innovations. The device would look
South Africa’s big four retail and commercial banks spent in excess of R30bn on IT in the 12 months to end-June 2016, including the cost of staff involved in this function. Excluding the cost of people, nearly R15 out of every R100 spent on
The rights of Gauteng road users who are not members of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse should be protected as much as those drivers who are members of the civil rights body, says
It’s been less than a decade since Apple shook the mobile telecommunications industry to its foundations with the original iPhone. The handset helped turn Apple into the world’s most valuable company (US$620bn this week) and inflicted huge
Twitter was sued by a shareholder over claims it misled investors on key growth metrics, including user count and user engagement, almost two years after touting plans to top 500m users. The suit, filed on Friday in federal court
The effects of perpetual policy bungling, which has become the hallmark of the ANC government’s communications ministries, will be laid bare during a two-day public hearing into the cost of communications held in parliament this
Twenty-two billion dollars. That’s the value that was wiped off the market capitalisation of Samsung Electronics in two days last week as investors took stock of implications of a global recall of its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy
The 2016 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona proved to be the ideal stage for smartphone makers to introduce a slew of new products. Sony was among them, presenting its new Xperia X range of next-generation smartphones, with
The frayed scrap of paper taped to the sidewalk outside Apple’s flagship store in San Francisco’s Union Square had a simple message: US$5 for photographs. The sight of Apple fans clamouring to get the latest phone was replaced on