“QR code” transactional systems and touch-based holographic interfaces. Inter-Africa Telecoms has a team of only half a dozen people, but the SA start-up clearly has big — and rather geeky — plans. Until now, the company’s core focus has been providing prepaid solutions

Neotel has won a contract to run the primary network operating centre, or NOC, for the West Africa Cable System (Wacs), the new, high-capacity submarine system running between Cape Town and London. Wacs is due to be ready for commercial service early next

JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms is buying back the 12% stake Microsoft bought in it in 2007. At the same time, Microsoft SA MD Mteto Nyati is stepping down from Blue Label’s board of directors. Microsoft is selling the shares at a loss. It bought them for

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, those who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them, or vilify them. About the only

The original version of the article, entitled “BlackBerry to open BBM to rivals?” contained speculation that, on balance, now appears…

US Internet giant Google is keen to invest in and support SA companies that want to build pilot wireless broadband networks using radio frequency spectrum currently reserved for television broadcasters. Neil Ahlsten, Google regional manager

Hitachi Data Systems, the IT arm of Japanese technology and services giant Hitachi, has put in an offer to buy SA’s Shoden Data Systems. The value of the offer has not been disclosed and is subject to approval by the Competition Commission and other relevant

One look at the wild speculation that preceded Apple’s announcement on Tuesday of the iPhone 4S and the latest incarnation of its mobile operating system, iOS 5, is enough to tell you that everyone was expecting more. And with Apple’s share

Telkom did something last week no one thought it ever would: its Internet service provider, TelkomInternet, jumped onto the uncapped broadband bandwagon, adopting a market trend started 18 months ago by its rival, MWeb. The news came as a

There’s a wave coming. Its first eddies were felt almost a decade ago, and by now it has already engulfed some outlying regions. But the general public has been largely unaware of its approach. Until now. I’m talking about the arrival of fully