Technology News
Vodacom debuts 2c voice rate
Vodacom prepaid customers are set to pay a flat call rate of 2c per second on the new Anytime Per Second price plan, available from 26 March 2013. Vodacom's latest offer is a simple flat rate plan offering anytime calling to any network across South Africa. By...
Huawei launches SA call centre
Huawei has launched its first South African call centre to provide Huawei Device customers with local support. The call centre is already operational and can be contacted on 0860 861 111. “The creation of this call centre is a result of Huawei’s growth in the South...
Telspace Systems opens EU office
South African information security services and training company Telspace Systems will be establishing an EU-based office during the Infosecurity Europe event at the end of April this year. Telspace Systems has been successfully operating in Johannesburg since 2002....
Oracle buys network firm Tekelec
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Tekelec, a leading provider of network signalling, policy control and subscriber data management solutions for communications networks. The proliferation of smart devices, mobile applications, and connected services has...
Vodacom slashes data pricing
Vodacom has cut its prepaid data pricing by up to 84% on its latest data promotion, which is set to run from 27 March to 30 April 2013. Phil Patel, chief officer of Vodacom's consumer business unit, comments: “The market is rapidly moving towards smartphones and we'd...
Selling educational software
With education in the 21st century becoming decidedly digital, software companies are jumping onto the bandwagon by developing products that they hope will be snapped up by the educational channel, thereby increasing their sales revenue. And apparently there is much...
FrontRange upgrades HEAT Service Management
FrontRange, the only provider of Hybrid IT Service Management solutions, last week announced a significant upgrade to its HEAT Service Management solution that provides a complete, closed loop lifecycle approach to centrally monitoring and managing an organisation’s...
HP helps business gain big data value
HP Enterprise Services today announced a new information management and analytics (IM&A) service designed to help clients rapidly gain increased value from big data assets to support their efforts to drive new revenue opportunities, improve efficiency, reduce risk...
The three elements of workforce optimisation
Workforce optimisation (WFO) helps companies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their customer interactions through solutions that capture interactions across all channels, analyse to reveal insights, and drive actions that impact business results and the...
Price hike to affect data centre pricing
Recently the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) granted power utility Eskom an 8% average increase per annum over the next five years. Lex van Wyk, chief executive officer of Teraco Data Environments says that with five years of power increases above...
Post Office gets to grips with backlog
The South African Post Office has reduced the mail backlog − which has resulted in a revenue loss of R97-million and R6-million in overtime − and anticipates clearing the remainder of the backlog within a few working days. “The organisation has been working tirelessly...
Spammers back to work in February
After a lull of several months, spammers stepped up their activity in February. According to Kaspersky Lab data, the proportion of spam in e-mail traffic grew by nearly 13 percentage points and averaged 71% for the month, higher than the average for January and the...
Zen, Xpanse partner on SA job creation
Zen Technologies and Xpanse Investments have committed to explore a joint venture to establish production and R&D facilities in South Africa. Zen Technologies is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and is a pioneer in the design, development and manufacture...
Vodacom debuts 2c voice rate
Vodacom prepaid customers are set to pay a flat call rate of 2c per second on the new Anytime Per Second price plan, available from 26 March 2013. Vodacom's latest offer is a simple flat rate plan offering anytime calling to any network across South Africa. By...
Huawei launches SA call centre
Huawei has launched its first South African call centre to provide Huawei Device customers with local support. The call centre is already operational and can be contacted on 0860 861 111. “The creation of this call centre is a result of Huawei’s growth in the South...
Telspace Systems opens EU office
South African information security services and training company Telspace Systems will be establishing an EU-based office during the Infosecurity Europe event at the end of April this year. Telspace Systems has been successfully operating in Johannesburg since 2002....
Oracle buys network firm Tekelec
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Tekelec, a leading provider of network signalling, policy control and subscriber data management solutions for communications networks. The proliferation of smart devices, mobile applications, and connected services has...
Vodacom slashes data pricing
Vodacom has cut its prepaid data pricing by up to 84% on its latest data promotion, which is set to run from 27 March to 30 April 2013. Phil Patel, chief officer of Vodacom's consumer business unit, comments: “The market is rapidly moving towards smartphones and we'd...
Selling educational software
With education in the 21st century becoming decidedly digital, software companies are jumping onto the bandwagon by developing products that they hope will be snapped up by the educational channel, thereby increasing their sales revenue. And apparently there is much...
FrontRange upgrades HEAT Service Management
FrontRange, the only provider of Hybrid IT Service Management solutions, last week announced a significant upgrade to its HEAT Service Management solution that provides a complete, closed loop lifecycle approach to centrally monitoring and managing an organisation’s...