Youngsters excel at Computer Olympiad

Yaseen Mowzer, a Grade 9 learner at Fairbairn College, Goodwood, Cape Town succeeded in beating all but one of the 4 747 entries in this year’s Standard Bank Programming Olympiad. He was beaten only by Gold Medal winner Guy Paterson-Jones, a Grade 12 learner at...

Cell C to sponsor The Sharks

Cell C is to become the Sharks’ new title sponsor in a three-year deal, effective from 1 January 2014. This sponsorship will see the Cell C brand carried on the playing kit of The Sharks professional teams, The KwaZulu-Natal amateur and schools teams as well as The...

Cellfind targets Africa for LBS growth

Blue Label Telecoms subsidiary Cellfind plans to establish itself as the continent’s location-based services (LBS) aggregator of choice by providing robust, flexible and affordable solutions to the market. The South African company will provide its GSM LBS technology...

WAPA opposes Neotel acquisition

The Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) today registered strong opposition to Vodacom’s planned acquisition of Neotel and says it is watching developments carefully before formulating a formal response. WAPA believes that the acquisition would stifle...

What’s your online persona?

Is there such a thing as an online persona? According to a new global study from MasterCard, the answer is yes. The Digital Sharing and Trust Project shows that consumers actually shed their “real-world” identities when they go online to assume “digital personas” that...

Mobile payment standard proposed

Visa, MasterCard and American Express have introduced a proposed framework for a new global standard to enhance the security of digital payments and simplify the purchasing experience when shopping on a mobile phone, tablet, personal computer or other smart device....