Technology News
FNB pays customers to ditch cash
FNB is encouraging its mainstream customers earning below R100 000 per annum to embrace cheaper cashless transactions by rewarding customers to use their debit cards. In a market where cash is often drawn from an ATM to make purchases, card usage is now starting to...
Telkom debuts first-time-user offering
Telkom Mobile has launched the Prepaid SIM Only Internet Starter Pack, aimed at first-time Internet users. To kick-start their online journey, Telkom Mobile will provide customers with a SIM card and 2,4Gb of data, allocated as 200Mb per month over 12 months for a...
SA firms urged to strengthen cyber security
Fraudsters and hacktivists currently have the upper hand in the world of cybercrime, and organisations have been urged to strengthen their defences to protect their assets against this continuously evolving challenge. That’s the recommendation of Adam Bangle,...
New-look Like and Share from Facebook
Facebook has changed its “Like” button, dropping the thumbs-up sign in favour of a blue block with the Facebook “f” logo and the word “Like”. The “Share” button has also been changed to the same format. According to Ray He, writing on the site’s developer blog, the...
Nokia Lumia 1020 arrives in SA
The Nokia Lumia 1020 has touched down in South Africa, establishing a new benchmark in imaging. Boasting a second generation 41 megapixel sensor, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is unlike any smartphone in the market today, reinventing zoom by enabling people to discover more...
F5 introduces Synthesis architecture
F5 Networks (FFIV) has announced its new F5 Synthesis architectural vision, promoting the delivery and orchestration of software defined application services (SDAS) throughout data centre, cloud, and hybrid environments. Powered by an elastic, multi-tenant and...
Liebherr invests R27m in the ATI
The Liebherr Academy, a social responsibility imitative of Liebherr-Africa, will have invested as much as R27-million in training artisans at the black empowered training institute, the Artisan Training Institute (ATI), by the end of 2014. The current aim is to train...
PCC leads to effective CRM
If users still wait for customers to call them, their contact centre strategy is about to become outdated, says Deon Scheepers, strategic consultant EMEA Interactive Intelligence. Simply waiting for calls to come in, or worse – making outbound sales calls scripted to...
Gartner recognises Teradata as market leader
Teradata has announced it has again been placed in the Leaders quadrant of the newest Gartner Integrated Marketing Management (IMM) Magic Quadrant report. The report was published by Kimberly Collins, research VP, and Adam Sarner, research director, CRM, at Gartner,...
Charge Windows apps straight to a phone
Want to buy Windows Phone apps and games but don’t have a credit card? Or just don’t feel like the hassle of typing in card details? As a Windows Phone Vodacom user, contract or prepaid, life has just became a whole lot easier. Since June, users have been able to buy...
Lenovo sees Q2 revenue, profit increase
Lenovo’s quarterly revenue for the second quarter, ended 30 September, was $9,8-billion, a 13% increase year-over-year. Second quarter profit grew even faster with pre-tax income increasing 30% year-over-year to US$265-million, while earnings grew 36% year-over-year...
Pinnacle Africa to distribute Asus
Pinnacle Africa has been appointed as an official distribution partner of Taiwanese ICT manufacturer Asus. Pinnacle Africa will immediately begin distributing Asus components as well as an array of system products including the vendor’s notebooks, tablets and...
Cell C offers international call promotion
Cell C has launched a 65c international calling promotion, giving South Africans cheaper rates to connect overseas during the holiday season. As of 5 November customers calling the UK, the US, Germany, Greece, Portugal, France, Belgium, Canada, Spain, India, China and...
FNB pays customers to ditch cash
FNB is encouraging its mainstream customers earning below R100 000 per annum to embrace cheaper cashless transactions by rewarding customers to use their debit cards. In a market where cash is often drawn from an ATM to make purchases, card usage is now starting to...
Telkom debuts first-time-user offering
Telkom Mobile has launched the Prepaid SIM Only Internet Starter Pack, aimed at first-time Internet users. To kick-start their online journey, Telkom Mobile will provide customers with a SIM card and 2,4Gb of data, allocated as 200Mb per month over 12 months for a...
SA firms urged to strengthen cyber security
Fraudsters and hacktivists currently have the upper hand in the world of cybercrime, and organisations have been urged to strengthen their defences to protect their assets against this continuously evolving challenge. That’s the recommendation of Adam Bangle,...
New-look Like and Share from Facebook
Facebook has changed its “Like” button, dropping the thumbs-up sign in favour of a blue block with the Facebook “f” logo and the word “Like”. The “Share” button has also been changed to the same format. According to Ray He, writing on the site’s developer blog, the...
Nokia Lumia 1020 arrives in SA
The Nokia Lumia 1020 has touched down in South Africa, establishing a new benchmark in imaging. Boasting a second generation 41 megapixel sensor, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is unlike any smartphone in the market today, reinventing zoom by enabling people to discover more...
F5 introduces Synthesis architecture
F5 Networks (FFIV) has announced its new F5 Synthesis architectural vision, promoting the delivery and orchestration of software defined application services (SDAS) throughout data centre, cloud, and hybrid environments. Powered by an elastic, multi-tenant and...
Liebherr invests R27m in the ATI
The Liebherr Academy, a social responsibility imitative of Liebherr-Africa, will have invested as much as R27-million in training artisans at the black empowered training institute, the Artisan Training Institute (ATI), by the end of 2014. The current aim is to train...