Technology News
Galaxy S4 customers spoilt for choice
The newly-launched Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone is already available from most of South Africa’s networks. Vodacom is offering the devices on a special deal at R429 per month on a Smart S plan that includes 75 Anytime minutes, 75Mb Mobile Internet and 150 Anytime...
Alcatel-Lucent signs up to maintain cables
Alcatel-Lucent has signed up to maintain two of the undersea cables connecting Africa to Europe. It has signed a contract with the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium for the maintenance of more than 9 000km of the WACS system linking South Africa to Portugal....
Local Waytag app up for global award
The Waytag app for BlackBerry 10 smartphones is a finalist in this year's BlackBerry Achievement Awards, in the Mobile Innovation of the Year category. Waytag is one of 15 apps from around the globe selected as finalists. Winners will be announced at BlackBerry Live...
New voice products from Telkom Mobile
Telkom Mobile has launched a new generation of premium voice contracts. The Telkom Mobile Smart and SmartSaver post-paid voice plans give customers access to unlimited calls to Telkom Mobile and 8ta numbers and, on some plans, unlimited access to free WiFi at Telkom...
Kaspersky calls for closer co-operation
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, is urging greater collaboration between the UK government and the private sector to address the very real and potentially devastating threat of cyber-warfare and the consequent risks posed to critical...
SA publisher debuts active education
MaraMedia Publishing, a South African organisation born out of a need for more comprehensive and innovative education solutions in local schools, has launched a range of Interactive Digital Manuals for Grades 7, 8 and 9 using Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite (DPS),...
CA moves to modernise mainframe
CA Technologies has unveiled a strategic direction to help mainframe customers embrace the future dynamic data centre and move closer to the ideal state of unbounded business enablement at zero cost. This announcement was made at CA World 2013 in Las Vegas. The...
Scientists receive national orders
President Jacob Zuma has conferred national orders on three Wits university alumni: Prof Glenda Gray; Dr Ridwan Mia; and Dr Bernie Fanaroff. Prof Glenda Gray was awarded the Order Mapungubwe (Silver) for her life-saving research in mother-to-child transmission of HIV...
Predictive Facebook publishing from Adobe
Adobe Systems has announced a powerful new predictive publishing capability for Adobe® Social, which predicts social engagement on individual pieces of content and automatically suggests ideal timing to improve how that content will perform. The initial version offers...
Software AG mobilises user intelligence
The Software AG Technology Community has merged with the webMethods user platform, wMUsers, and now offers access to the world’s largest webMethods knowledge base with over 140 000 posts. Members of the Technology Community value the rapid networking, topic-specific...
SA-made cloud system to go live
A locally-developed human resources (HR) and talent management system, Piilo, is ready to go live in the cloud – and has already garnered interest from both local and global companies looking to implement the cost-effective solution. Phil Lotter, CEO of Piilo,...
Smartphones outship feature phones
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-over-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker,...
AxizWorkgroup takes on Aruba Networks
AxizWorkgroup has signed a deal with Aruba Networks to distribute its products in South Africa. Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company’s Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture...
Galaxy S4 customers spoilt for choice
The newly-launched Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone is already available from most of South Africa’s networks. Vodacom is offering the devices on a special deal at R429 per month on a Smart S plan that includes 75 Anytime minutes, 75Mb Mobile Internet and 150 Anytime...
Alcatel-Lucent signs up to maintain cables
Alcatel-Lucent has signed up to maintain two of the undersea cables connecting Africa to Europe. It has signed a contract with the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium for the maintenance of more than 9 000km of the WACS system linking South Africa to Portugal....
Local Waytag app up for global award
The Waytag app for BlackBerry 10 smartphones is a finalist in this year's BlackBerry Achievement Awards, in the Mobile Innovation of the Year category. Waytag is one of 15 apps from around the globe selected as finalists. Winners will be announced at BlackBerry Live...
New voice products from Telkom Mobile
Telkom Mobile has launched a new generation of premium voice contracts. The Telkom Mobile Smart and SmartSaver post-paid voice plans give customers access to unlimited calls to Telkom Mobile and 8ta numbers and, on some plans, unlimited access to free WiFi at Telkom...
Kaspersky calls for closer co-operation
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, is urging greater collaboration between the UK government and the private sector to address the very real and potentially devastating threat of cyber-warfare and the consequent risks posed to critical...
SA publisher debuts active education
MaraMedia Publishing, a South African organisation born out of a need for more comprehensive and innovative education solutions in local schools, has launched a range of Interactive Digital Manuals for Grades 7, 8 and 9 using Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite (DPS),...
CA moves to modernise mainframe
CA Technologies has unveiled a strategic direction to help mainframe customers embrace the future dynamic data centre and move closer to the ideal state of unbounded business enablement at zero cost. This announcement was made at CA World 2013 in Las Vegas. The...