Local Nokia fans won’t have to wait much longer to get their hands on the Finnish company’s flagship Windows Phone device. The Lumia 800 will go on sale in SA on 7 February, according to a post on Nokia’s Facebook page. Though Nokia is yet to reveal local pricing for the Lumia 800 and on which
The editors of the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia on Tuesday made an unprecedented decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia in protest over contentious antipiracy bills being considered by the US government. In a letter to the Wikipedia community, Sue Gardner, executive director at the Wikimedia
Vodacom has hired listed technology group Datatec’s chief financial officer, Ivan Dittrich, as its new group head of finance, replacing Rob Shuter, who will take over as CEO of Vodafone’s operations in The Netherlands on 1 March. Vodacom is a subsidiary of UK-based Vodafone. According to Vodacom, Dittrich
The SABC has suspended its acting chief technology officer, Gelfand Kausiyo, due to what it calls “allegations of misconduct”. Kausiyo has been acting in the position since November, having been appointed to the post following the resignation of Richard Waghorn as head of the crucial portfolio late last
The ZA Tech Show crew focuses its conversation this week on what are likely to be the big areas of tech news in 2012. Simon Dingle is back from CES in Las Vegas, joined by Sam Beckbessinger, TechCentral’s Craig Wilson and Ben Kelly, to discuss the future of television, an overview of the Consumer Electronics Show in
Online social networking is “broken”, Google+ is Google’s attempt to fix this, and the service will change fundamentally all of the Internet giant’s products, from search to YouTube. These are the key messages to come out of a recent Q&A session between TechCentral and Google+ chief of staff Matt Waddell
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) was forced to “pause” market trading on Tuesday between 10.39am and roughly midday on account of problems with international links between it and its London-based trading engine. Similar problems affected the JSE on a number of occasions
Lulama Mokhobo has been appointed the SABC’s new group CEO, communications minister Dina Pule said on Monday. The appointment, for five years, is with immediate effect. Mokhobo, who replaces acting CEO Robin Nicholson at the troubled
The theft of R42m from the SPost Office’s financial institution, Postbank, was condemned by parliament’s communications portfolio committee on Monday. Portfolio chairman Eric Kholwane said the bank’s security network needed to be tightened to prevent such a “hi-tech cyber heist”. He appreciated
Worldwide spending on retail banking technology will increase by US$3,6bn, or 3,2%% in 2012 and will reach $135bn in the next five years, according to Ovum. This is despite the economic problems plaguing the world economy. Ovum says banks in emerging economies in the Asia-Pacific region will grow