Remember the Razr? It was Motorola’s incredibly popular series of super-thin flip phones that sold more than 130m units, making it the most popular “clamshell”-style phones in the history on the mobile device industry. Well, the Razr is back, at least in name if not in design

Listed SA IT company Gijima has formed a partnership with US company MobileIron as it ups its focus on the consumerisation of IT in business. Founded in 2007 and based in California, MobileIron provides mobile device management and security to large corporations

JSE-listed technology and telecommunications group Reunert paid R171,9m for privately held ECN Telecommunications, its 2011 financial results show. Of this, R107,8m was in the form of goodwill, which means Reunert attached a fair market value to ECN of R64,1m

Telkom is involved in a multibillion-rand project to increase the throughput of fixed-line broadband to speeds of up to 40Mbit/s. The plans also include dramatically upping the speed of entry-level broadband services and introducing video-on-demand (VOD) products

It’s a full house in the ZA Tech Show studio this episode with Aki Anastasiou, Andy Hadfield, Samantha Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle gathering around the table to discuss Vodacom’s 20GB price announcement, the coming of Windows Phone, banks and technology, and much more

Absa Bank has begun overhauling its extensive automated teller machine (ATM) network — there more than 6 000 of them in the field — adding a new user interface and new self-service features such as the ability to pay certain bills that have special barcodes. It has awarded a giant contract

Wipro Technologies, one of India’s largest IT services companies, is expanding its presence in SA, promising to create 1 000 new jobs over the next three years. Wipro, which is listed in the US and India, and which has annual revenues of US$7bn, is a big player in the business process

Power utility Eskom signed a US250m (R1,9 billion) loan on Monday that will finance the building of SA’s largest solar energy and wind power generation projects. Signing the guarantee, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said SA had a “huge comparative advantage”

Nashua Mobile has become the latest company to jump on the uncapped broadband bandwagon, launching a set of unshaped, uncapped digital subscriber line (DSL) products that are available with or without Telkom line rental included. Each product requires users to sign up for a 12-month

As amazing as it sounds, SA’s Internet is only two decades old. This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the first packets of data that flowed over the Internet to and from SA. This Saturday at 10.44am, it will have been exactly 20 years since Randy Bush