Technology News
SA tops in mobile search
According to new research by private healthcare search engine WhatClinic.com, South Africa leads the way in using mobile devices to search the site.In the past five years, mobile and tablet traffic to the site - which has over 1-million unique visitors every...
Neotel cuts the cost of tech-agnostic broadband
Internet provider Neotel has launched affordable, enhanced high-speed broadband services. They will be available from 10 November 2014 and will offer a consistent user experience and features across a future-proof, technology-agnostic and fixed wireless access network.
Virgin offers free on-net calls
Virgin Mobile South Africa’s (VMSA's) new product proposition offers free on-net calls to all its contract and prepaid customers. CEO Anton Landman yesterday revealed a new tiered offering, which went live from 1 November 2014. The proposition covers prepaid,...
Targeted attacks set to go wild
Targeted attacks are set to become rampant from more countries as hackers have found success targeting victims around the world. This is one of the findings from the Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2015 and Beyond: The Invisible becomes Visible report, which also...
Digital marketing budgets set for growth
Marketers are investing in the customer experience to drive business advantage and profitable revenue growth, according to a survey of marketing executives by Gartner. The survey found that marketing budgets remained healthy in 2014, with, on average, companies...
Load shedding impacts Telkom services
Telkom services are being impacted by Eskom’s nationwide load shedding schedule. Depending on the duration of load shedding, Telkom may lose some core network elements which can impact customer services. “The company understands the great inconvenience disconnection...
Lenovo completes Motorola Mobility buy-out
Lenovo’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google is complete. The acquisition of the Motorola brand and Motorola's portfolio of innovative smartphones like Moto X, Moto G, Moto E and the DROID series, as well as the future Motorola product roadmap, positions...
Schneider Electric updates Ampla
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has announced that a new version of Ampla, its innovative software that delivers a dynamic view of process performance, has been made available for the southern African market. This latest issue of the...
Tigo, Facebook offer free Internet access
Tigo has announced that it is teaming up with Facebook to provide millions of Tanzanians with affordable Internet and free access to some basic online services through the Internet.org app. Tigo is also offering customers the opportunity to purchase affordable...
Key factors to consider when buying an LFP
Wide format printing workflow is more than just printing. While technology advances have delivered hardware that's faster, cheaper and better, in order to achieve optimum productivity, it is important to broaden the purchase consideration analysis to look at pre- and...
IoE will define industry winners and losers
The Internet of Everything (IoE) has fast become a reality in today’s world and those companies that are slow in realising this and embracing it are destined for failure. Mark Davison reports from Cisco Connect 2014, Sun City.
Facebook bridges the gender divide
Facebook is the first platform in South Africa that has seen exactly equal uptake by males and females. This is one of the findings in the SA Social Media Landscape 2015 report by World Wide Worx and Fuseware. The headline findings, announced in September, had shown...
Wireless in demand, despite fibre rollout
The demand for wireless in high-density fibre areas of South Africa continues unabated. This is according to Brenden Pronk, chief commercial officer of Comsol, who says that, even in the most dense fibre areas, Comsol and its biggest ISP client continue to deploy a...
SA tops in mobile search
According to new research by private healthcare search engine WhatClinic.com, South Africa leads the way in using mobile devices to search the site.In the past five years, mobile and tablet traffic to the site - which has over 1-million unique visitors every...
Neotel cuts the cost of tech-agnostic broadband
Internet provider Neotel has launched affordable, enhanced high-speed broadband services. They will be available from 10 November 2014 and will offer a consistent user experience and features across a future-proof, technology-agnostic and fixed wireless access network.
Virgin offers free on-net calls
Virgin Mobile South Africa’s (VMSA's) new product proposition offers free on-net calls to all its contract and prepaid customers. CEO Anton Landman yesterday revealed a new tiered offering, which went live from 1 November 2014. The proposition covers prepaid,...
Targeted attacks set to go wild
Targeted attacks are set to become rampant from more countries as hackers have found success targeting victims around the world. This is one of the findings from the Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2015 and Beyond: The Invisible becomes Visible report, which also...
Digital marketing budgets set for growth
Marketers are investing in the customer experience to drive business advantage and profitable revenue growth, according to a survey of marketing executives by Gartner. The survey found that marketing budgets remained healthy in 2014, with, on average, companies...
Load shedding impacts Telkom services
Telkom services are being impacted by Eskom’s nationwide load shedding schedule. Depending on the duration of load shedding, Telkom may lose some core network elements which can impact customer services. “The company understands the great inconvenience disconnection...
Lenovo completes Motorola Mobility buy-out
Lenovo’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google is complete. The acquisition of the Motorola brand and Motorola's portfolio of innovative smartphones like Moto X, Moto G, Moto E and the DROID series, as well as the future Motorola product roadmap, positions...