Minister Cwele backs SA Connect
By Kathy Gibson – By 2020, all South Africans should have Internet access. This is the commitment made by Siyabonga Cwele, the new Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, speaking at the Cisco Safari 2014 conference held at the University of Pretoria...Dutch company launches first electric joint
Dutch company E-Njoint has invented and developed the world’s first electric joint – and it is selling about 10 000 of them each day. The E-Njoint is disposable and is consumed at dance parties, music events, bars, clubs and so on. Currently, 10 000 e-joints per day...MTN launches Mobile Money Visa card
MTN South Africa has launched the Mobile Money Visa card, currently available from Pick ‘n Pay and Boxer stores. Since the launch of Mobile Money in South Africa in November 2012, more than 2-million customers have registered on the platform, with over...6,6bn subscribers drive mobile telecoms
After the trough of 2009 and hesitant growth in 2010, the global mobile telecommunications market has been growing at a moderate pace since 2011. Growth in 2013 stood at 2,4%. “We have observed that, by and large, telecom services are recovering more slowly than the...Intel re-imagines high-performance computing
Intel has announced new details for its next-generation Intel Xeon Phi processors, code-named Knights Landing, which promise to extend the benefits of code modernisation investments being made for current generation products. These include a new high-speed fabric that...