Asia Pacific leads in phone sales

Worldwide mobile phone sales to end-users totalled nearly 426-million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0,7% from the same period last year, according to Gartner.  Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 210-million units in the first quarter of...

New strategy head for Telkom

Dr Miriam Altman has been appointed as Telkom’s head of strategy, with effect from 1 June 2013.  Dr Altman will support the development and execution of Telkom’s strategy and will report directly to group CEO Sipho Maseko. Dr Altman was an executive director at the...

IS expands public cloud offering

Internet Solutions (IS) has announced that its Public Compute as a Service (CaaS) offering can now be purchased on a pay-as-you-go basis using a credit card. The IS Public CaaS platform, available through a Web-based portal, enables developers, independent software...

Forum aims to boost African domains

A platform for the DNS community across Africa to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent is the goal of the Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum, to be held from 12 to 13 July 2013 in Durban.  The event has been organised by...

Howzit MSN moves into Kenya, Nigeria

Howzit MSN, one of Africa’s largest portals, with 3,3-million unique browsers per month, is set to launch dedicated versions of its site for Nigeria and Kenya.  Howzit MSN, operated by Kagiso Media in partnership with Microsoft, is the South African version of the...