Adobe unveils privacy solution
At this week’s Digital Marketing Summit in London, Adobe announced a privacy solution for digital advertisers and publishers to give consumers control over their onine data.
Click here to read more...Internet for Africa: now hard work begins
The African Internet has taken major steps over the past few years due to massive investments in undersea and terrestrial cables. But, today on World Telecommunications Day, MARK SIMPSON of SEACOM says we still have a long way to go to make it affordable to everyone on the continent.
Click here to read more...Regulator can speed up SA telecoms
The telecommunications industry has the potential to be one of the engines driving South Africa’s GDP growth past six percent per year, but only if strong competition is nurtured in the sector, says CHRIS RADLEY of Nashua Mobile.
Click here to read more...Cell C makes its big move
Cell C today announced its long-anticipated move to bring down cellphone call costs, expected since Alan Knott-Craig took over the reins and threatened an industry shake-up. SEAN BACHER reports.
Click here to read more...Vodacom comes second
Within minutes of Cell C slashing its prepaid rates, has Vodacom responded with its Freedom 99 prepaid tariffs. But, these new tariffs are based on a per minute billing, making them slightly more expensive than Cell C's per second billing.
Click here to read more...Vodacom to become insurer
Vodacom has received licences to sell short and long term insurance, and has entered a partnership with Liberty-owned FRANK.NET to market products to its 30-million subscriber base.
Click here to read more...Adobe unveils ColdFusion 10
The latest version of Adobe’s ColdFusion server software, with HTML5 integration, was released at the Adobe Digtial Marketing Summit in London yesterday.
Click here to read more...AMD boost for all-in-ones
AMD has announced the launch of its 2nd-Generation AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for mainstream and ultrathin notebooks, All-in-One and traditional desktops, home theater PCs and embedded designs.
Click here to read more...Europe's virtual peril
A survey done by O+K Research has revealed that 62% of European companies have implemented server virtualisation, but 55% of them are unconcerned about security. This is a mindset that needs to change says Kaspersky Labs, as virtual security risks are equal to those found in a physical environment.
Click here to read more...Cookies = more pie
Customer data in the form of cookies is an important resource in a marketing environment – the problem is gaining access to them. RICHARD MULLINS of Acceleration explains the benefits of having access to them.
Click here to read more...Tablets stress the Web
Tablet traffic has grown 10 times faster than smartphone traffic according to a study released at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in London today.
Click here to read more...HP ups the notebook ante
At HP’s Global Influencer Summit in Shanghai last week, SEAN BACHER was overwhelmed with new products – led by the new range of Ultrabooks and Sleekbooks.
Click here to read more...8ta extends SA's best data deal
8·ta has announced that it is extending the 10GIG, 3GIG and 120GIG data promotions until the end of March 2013 with the prices remaining the same throughout the extension period.
Click here to read more...Cell C halves data price
Cell C has more than halved the prices of some of its most popular data packages in a promotion introduced yesterday and set to run until the end of July.
Click here to read more...The great Internet shift
The switch-on of the WACS cable, the first in-flight WiFi in South Africa and the latest Internet stats made for a big Internet week, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
Click here to read more...WACS gives Infraco new shine
The launch of the West African Cable System has enabled Broadband Infraco to offer 70% of its share of the cable system to projects of national interest, with the remainder going towards supporting other government projects requiring international network access.
Click here to read more...Telkom to build on WACS
The introduction of the West African Cable System into Telkom’s portfolio of undersea cables, combined with the EASSy and EIG cables completes a high-capacity ring between SA and Europe. This will allow Telkom to offer more diverse and redundant global services to its customers.
Click here to read more...Neotel and WACS: one for all
With the completion of the West African Cable System, Neotel is now connected to every South African submarine cable, increasing its network robustness and enabling it to optimise international costs by carrying data through the most cost effective route.
Click here to read more...WACS helps Vodacom unlock the Internet
The launch of the West African Cable System was welcomed by Vodacom as it now allows them to roll out more mobile base stations across South Africa, enabling their networks to support traffic more effectively and alleviate any bottlenecks when accessing international websites.
Click here to read more...MTN leads WACS charge
Today the West African Cable System went live, six years after MTN invested US$10 million into it. The 17 200km cable linking Southern and Western Africa to Europe will increase South Africa’s current broadband capacity by more than 500 Gbps.
Click here to read more...22seven goes live
22seven, the new generation money management service, has come out of beta after three months of proof of concept testing with thousands of customers.
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