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The future of government service delivery
Government service delivery is once again in the headlines, with on-going protests in some areas highlighting the desperation of those living in poorer areas for access to improved services. While a lack of government service delivery is not a specifically South...
Enhanced ecosystem for Galaxy S5
The Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone comes complete with an enhanced ecosystem of benefits to further improve the consumers’ mobile communication experience. Craige Fleischer, director of Mobile Communications at Samsung Electronics SA, says the new device comes packed...
Service award winners named
The South African Service Awards has recognised the companies that differentiate themselves through outstanding customer experience. The winners of the third annual South African Service Awards were announced on Friday (11 April), with First Car Rental taking the...
Nashua Mobile sells subscribers
Nashua Mobile is set to close down its operations and has agreed to sell Vodacom and MTN subscribers to the operators. It is also looking for a buyer for its Cell C users. Nashua Mobile has not renewed its agreements on the terms on which it was appointed as a service...
APIs make realtime election data available
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is creating functionality in the form of application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide election data in realtime to stakeholders including politicians, media institutions and other interested parties. These APIs are...
SA sees breakthrough CAD treatment
The world’s first polymeric bio-resorbable drug-eluting vascular scaffold (BVS) for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) is now available in South Africa from Baroque Medical. CAD, a narrowing of one or more arteries that supply blood to the heart, is the...
BlackBerry commits to its handset business
BlackBerry has scotched rumours, following a Reuters article, that it may exit the handset business. Interim CEO John Chen, writing on the company’s official blog, stresses the importance of devices in BlackBerry’s end-to-end strategy. “Reuters published an article...
XDSL extends footprint with DFA’s fibre
XDSL, a local Internet service provider (ISP), has entered into an agreement with Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) and Conduct, DFA’s last-mile fibre network subsidiary. The agreement provides XDSL with access to DFA’s 8 000km of installed fibre, increasing the footprint and...
Cheaters use WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter
The extramarital dating site for married and attached people, Victoria Milan, revealed that 83% of cheaters use mobile technologies to contact their lovers. The study was conducted among 12 500 female and male cheaters from the US, the UK, Germany, France and Spain,...
DiData spreads its wings in West Africa
Dimension Data has increased its presence in West Africa by opening an office in Ghana. The group has been operating in the West African market for a decade with an operation in Nigeria. In addition, Dimension Data has offices in Nigeria through its subsidiary...
IT automation to fast track business growth
The next wave of enterprise IT will see technology becoming more than simply an enabler of business, but something truly transformative that allows organisations to achieve ever-faster growth, says Rajat Mathur, chief sales and operations officer for Growth Markets,...
EMC redefines data protection
EMC Corporation has announced new products and technologies that address the full continuum of data protection requirements facing users, both today and as they address the challenge of transitioning to software-defined data centres. In software-defined data centres,...
Qlikview offers realtime access to data
Are you wondering how you are going to find the time to do all that is necessary for your business to thrive? Is your staff equipped to deal with the ever the changing prerequisites in business? What are you going to do to make sure this all happens smoothly whether...
The future of government service delivery
Government service delivery is once again in the headlines, with on-going protests in some areas highlighting the desperation of those living in poorer areas for access to improved services. While a lack of government service delivery is not a specifically South...
Enhanced ecosystem for Galaxy S5
The Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone comes complete with an enhanced ecosystem of benefits to further improve the consumers’ mobile communication experience. Craige Fleischer, director of Mobile Communications at Samsung Electronics SA, says the new device comes packed...
Service award winners named
The South African Service Awards has recognised the companies that differentiate themselves through outstanding customer experience. The winners of the third annual South African Service Awards were announced on Friday (11 April), with First Car Rental taking the...
Nashua Mobile sells subscribers
Nashua Mobile is set to close down its operations and has agreed to sell Vodacom and MTN subscribers to the operators. It is also looking for a buyer for its Cell C users. Nashua Mobile has not renewed its agreements on the terms on which it was appointed as a service...
APIs make realtime election data available
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is creating functionality in the form of application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide election data in realtime to stakeholders including politicians, media institutions and other interested parties. These APIs are...
SA sees breakthrough CAD treatment
The world’s first polymeric bio-resorbable drug-eluting vascular scaffold (BVS) for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) is now available in South Africa from Baroque Medical. CAD, a narrowing of one or more arteries that supply blood to the heart, is the...
BlackBerry commits to its handset business
BlackBerry has scotched rumours, following a Reuters article, that it may exit the handset business. Interim CEO John Chen, writing on the company’s official blog, stresses the importance of devices in BlackBerry’s end-to-end strategy. “Reuters published an article...