Mobile operator Cell C has awarded a US$378m (R2,9bn) contract to telecommunications equipment company ZTE Corporation, the Chinese company said on Wednesday. The company — together with its subsidiary ZTE Corporation SA — had entered into a network supply agreement and a managed services agreement with Cell C and its controlling shareholder, Oger Telecom SA. [...]
Telecommunications company Neotel on Tuesday said it will be ready for individual number porting in April. “The porting of numbers in blocks of 10 000 or 1 000 has been available for some months now,” said Angus Hay (pictured), executive head of technology at Neotel. This had excluded many businesses as it was only relevant [...]
SA Airways acting CEO Chris Smyth has issued a public apology for the downtime on its high-profile e-commerce website at the weekend. The website was suspended after the domain name, flysaa.com, was not renewed on time by the airline’s service providers. The flysaa.com website was unavailable between 7pm on Saturday and midday on Sunday, the [...]
omputer maker Apple has beaten analysts’ estimates thanks to record sales of Macintosh computers, sending the share nearly 3% higher in after-hours trading on Monday. The company, which is expected to unveil a tablet computing device at a press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday
T-Systems SA will double its turnover and staff complement as a result of its acquisition of IT company Arivia.kom from state-owned enterprises Eskom and Transnet. That’s the word from T-Systems SA MD Mardia van der Walt-Korsten, who claims the deal, which has taken three years to complete, will position the company as the SA’s largest [...]
[Best of the Web -- Monday, 25 January 2010] We didn’t attack Google, China says: China has dismissed suggestions that it was involved in recent cyber attacks on Google and other companies in that country. The attacks have have led to escalated tensions between the US and China, with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton [...]
This week, security expert Dominic White makes his debut on the show. He joins Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss the ongoing Google-China debacle, free Nokia maps, Telkom’s Sat-3 problems, and much more
Eskom will oppose the R85m lawsuit filed against it by ousted CEO Jacob Maroga, the parastatal said on Sunday. “We are aware of it and we will oppose it,” the company said. According to the Sunday Times, Maroga filed a civil claim at the South Gauteng high court demanding “reasonable damages” or reinstatement as CEO. [...]
It appears that state-owned airline, SA Airways, forgot to renew its Internet domain, flysaa.com. The domain was suspended at the weekend pending payment by the national carrier. It was not immediately clear how long the website was offline, but Web users visiting flysaa.com on Sunday morning were greeted with a message from domain registration company [...]
The battle lines for this year’s best film and best director Oscars have been drawn between two movies that could hardly be more different: the bombastic, big-budget epic, Avatar, and the low-key Iraqi war thriller, The Hurt Locker. As much as I enjoyed Avatar, I’m rooting for The Hurt Locker, if the choice is to [...]
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