Cape Town-based start-up Afrozaar thinks there’s a big future in merging cloud computing (computing on the Internet) and mobile telephony to offer hosted mobile applications to the corporate market
The original panel of the ZA Tech Show reassemble this week for a special, re-launch episode. They discuss Motorola’s Super Bowl Xoom commercial, gadget pricing, Nokia’s strategy and tablet rumours, and much more
Telkom has reinstated plans to offer employees voluntary retrenchment and early retirement packages in a bid to cut costs. The telecommunications company offered severance to managerial staff last year
The R35m sale of 51% of disaster-recovery firm Continuity SA by JSE-listed outsourcing specialist the Dialogue Group, has been finalised. CoroCapital, the investment banking firm
Smartphone sales soared 72,1% from 2009 to 2010 and accounted for 19% of total mobile communications device sales, new research from Gartner shows. That means nearly one in five phones now sold is a smartphone
Cell C has finally sold its stake in Virgin Mobile SA. UK-based Virgin Mobile will increase its stake by 5%, to 55%, with the remainder of Cell C’s 50% stake in the company being sold to Calico Investments of the Bahamas
Google is on the hunt for talent, hoping to double the size of its SA subsidiary from about 20 staff now, to roughly 40 people in the medium term. That’s the word from Google SA’s new country manager
Neotel’s been getting a lot of bad press lately. Financial losses are mounting and retrenchments are looming. But it’s too soon to write the company off. If it acts tactically now, it could still be a force to be reckoned with in SA telecommunications
The department of labour will not renew its 10-year IT contract with Siemens and plans to seek redress for failures by the electronics giant in the 22 months before it runs out. This route was recommended by KPMG in a report handed
In a no-holds-barred memo to Nokia employees this week, new CEO Stephen Elop has lamented the company’s slow response, first to Apple’s iPhone, and then to the rise of Google’s Android, suggesting it is “standing on a burning platform”