Datatec subsidiary Logicalis has acquired Netarx, a supplier of Cisco products and services in the US mid-west, for a maximum consideration of US$34m, to be settled with cash and deferred Datatec shares. Netarx, based in Detroit
Vodacom has denied that a network outage on Thursday was caused by sabotaged fibre optic cables. “The cause of the outage is still being determined, and we will only be able to know once we have done a post mortem on the
SA’s cellular network operators have been found wanting over service quality levels by their regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). On Friday, Icasa announced the results of a quality-of-service survey
After a week’s break, TalkCentral, TechCentral’s business technology podcast, is back with a bumper show and a special podcast. In this week’s episode, we talk about Vodacom’s network outage, 8ta’s broadband special
The idea of a game that pairs the eccentric style of No More Heroes designer Suda-51 with the gameplay suss of Resident Evil maestro Shinji Mikami sounds completely irresistible. For that reason, Shadows of the Damned, the
Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei — that’s wah-way to the uninitiated — has recently expanded into consumer electronics. On Wednesday, the company’s SA office unveiled its first foray into the
SA cellular operators are yet to provide details of how many subscribers were disconnected from their networks on Thursday night as the deadline arrived for consumers to register their Sim cards under the Regulation of
After nearly a full workday of intermittent outages across cellular operator Vodacom’s network, which have infuriated subscribers, the company has finally provided details of what has caused the problems and promised
Dimension Data is diving head first into the cloud. The SA-headquartered company, which was acquired last year by Japan’s Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) Corp in a R24,4bn all-cash deal, has bought OpSource, an
Virtual Mobile Technologies (VMT), a local technology company backed by empowerment group Mvelaphanda, has developed products for mobile devices that integrate seamlessly with enterprise software systems like SAP