The Western Cape will see a “game-changing” infrastructure plan this year, premier Helen Zille said on Friday. This will include delivering broadband to every school in the province by 2014. “The most powerful economic lever in the hands of a provincial government
In addition to the announcements about Apple’s next operating system Mac OS X Mountain Lion, the company rolled out a beta edition of its iMessages chat app on Thursday. Apple previously launched its iMessages for the iPhone and iPad as an answer to Research in Motion’s popular BlackBerry Messenger service
American telecoms firms are clamouring for more wireless spectrum. Hence the interest in LightSquared, a firm which had hoovered up a chunk of airwaves formerly used by satellite operators. It planned to build a high-speed terrestrial network and rent it out to others. But on 14 February, America’s
The sharp decline in Tekom’s share price in recent months could pose a challenge for it in its talks with KT Corp to sell 20% of its equity to the Korean telecommunications firm. Telkom share price has fallen significantly in recent months because of disappointing financial results and, more recently
Apple has unveiled its next big cat operating system for desktops, Mac OS X “Mountain Lion”, which shares even more with iOS than its predecessor. Like OS X Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion (technically Mac OS X version 10.8) is being positioned as a minor upgrade over last year’s Lion release. For the most part
JSE-listed information and communications technology group Datatec said on Thursday its subsidiary Westcon has agreed to acquire Netpoleon, an Indonesian distributor of IT security, networking and convergence solutions. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. Netpolean also provides managed and training services
Tim Wyatt-Gunning, previously joint CEO of telecommunications company Storm and now CEO of Internet service provider Web Africa, says Telkom should be handed a hefty fine by the Competition Tribunal and that it has by no means reformed its ways as it claims. Storm was one of the companies that lodged
Recently delisted telecommunications company Vox Telecom has continued its tradition of publishing unusual annual reports based on popular magazines. Its 2011 report, published this week, is styled on international men’s magazine GQ. Called VQ, the latest annual report is more risque than previous reports, which have
Least-cost routing specialist TeleMasters has reported an operating loss of R1,4m in the three months to December 2011, from a profit of R5,1m previously, as a result of the loss of two big contracts and the market shift away from least-cost routing (LCR) solutions. LCR providers like TeleMasters had taken advantage
Foreign exchange losses are set to depress Mustek’s earnings in the six months to 31 December 2012, despite a more than 20% increase in sales in the period compared to a year ago. The JSE-listed technology distributor expects headline earnings per share to be between 55% and 65% lower than headline earnings of 36,2cc/share a year
