While old tech dies, stupidity lives on
Still using a custom phone number that lets callers key in a word instead of a number? Well, your number is obsolete, along with several other innovations you thought were cutting edge, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
Click here to read more...Vodacom rejoins data price war
Vodacom has slashed data prices with a new promotion for contract customers. It has announced a Broadband Standard MyGig 1 and MyGig 2 data contract promotion, which runs from 07 February 2012 to 06 May 2012.
Click here to read more...Avis launches Android app
Avis Rent a Car has announced the launch of an Android reservations app, which enables customers to book their car rental through any Avis branch worldwide from their smartphone running the Android operating system.
Click here to read more...Holiday spam more appealing
Symantec has announced the findings of its January Symantec.cloud Intelligence Report, which shows that spammers are using holidays and major events to make their mail more appealing.
Click here to read more...Americans do it early, Europeans wait and do it late
According to Opera Software’s latest research, this past holiday season, U.S. mobile phone users shopped early, while Europeans used their phones for last-minute purchases.
Click here to read more...Where IT spend must go
According to IDC, the South African IT services market is expected to exceed $5 billion this year. But, although the IT spend is up, MALCOLM RABSON of Dariel Solutions believes companies should rather look at properly integrating their current technology systems than rushing off and buying new and innovative products.
Click here to read more...The truth behind online lotteries
Everyone likes the idea of easy money, and e-mail inboxes regularly get clogged up with notifications of big lottery wins. In her article ‘Congratulations, you’ve won! The reality behind online lotteries’, Kaspersky Lab Spam Analyst MARIA RUBINSTEIN sheds light on the typical scams employed by fraudsters.
Click here to read more...How GSM covers your assets
GSM location-based services (LBS) are an attractive alternative or back-up option for GPS asset-tracking solutions in a range of corporate applications, says JAQUES SWANPOEL of Cellfind.
Click here to read more...Turn mobile risk into reward
Instead of banning employees from downloading ad hoc apps that could be harmful to a business, PAULO FERREIRA of Samsung SA, says companies should allow users to download in-house apps, written to their needs, and at the same time allowing the business to control the flow of imforrmation.
Click here to read more...LED - the lighting frontier
Lighting attributes to a lot of power usage in homes and industries, and although many people have chosen compact fluorescent lights as an alternative to tungsten filament bulbs, they are less than perfect, says FRED MITCHELL of Drive Control Corporation.
Click here to read more...Convergence catches business asleep
Convergence is not a new concept, but the extent to which it is enabling consumers to live connected lifestyles has caught many organisations by surprise, says FRANK RIZZO of KPMG.
Click here to read more...Digital SLR demands skills
Moving from a point and click camera to a SLR (single lense reflex) is an expensive and a long jump. ROGER MICHIN of Canon SA gives a few guidelines when buying your first SLR.
Click here to read more...Incredible's January giants
Incredible Connection has announced its top five products for January. They range from serious mobile hardware like ultrabooks to fun hardware like audio docks for an iPod, iPad or iPhone.
Click here to read more...Telkom increases data caps by 25%
Telkom today announced an increase in data caps for most of its broadband packages, by an average of around 25% per package. The notification was sent to customers yesterday, along with news that it will merge the do Broadband service into the Telkom Internet brand.
Click here to read more...ITU calls for green apps
The ITU and Telefonica have announced the Green ICT Hackathon, a competition that will give developers the chance to design apps with sustainable energy as their core.
Click here to read more...Libraries getting connected
Vodacom has announced the successful implementation of Phase 1 of a libraries project for Internet connectivity across the North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces. When completed, almost 300 community libraries will be connected using VSAT and Vodacom ADSL services.
Click here to read more...Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X
Apple has released Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, an update to its video editing application, which introduces multicam editing that automatically syncs up to 64 angles of video and photos.
Click here to read more...More Mb for Moz gov
The Mozambican Ministry of Science and Technology has signed a 20 year agreement to access international broadband fibre connectivity on the Seacom network to Europe and onwards to the rest of the world.
Click here to read more...Samsung D8000 – almost smart
The latest innovations in smart TV will still take a while to reach South Africa, but some earlier-model smart TVs are already available. SEAN BACHER tried out the Samsung D8000 55” 3D LED smart TV.
Click here to read more...AMD launches new Radeon card
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Today AMD announced the worldwide availability of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card for desktop computers. This launch brings to market the second graphics card based on the 28nm process technology first introduced with the AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card.
Click here to read more...BlackBerry rises to the Cloud with Office 365
RIM has announced the BlackBerry Business Cloud Service for Microsoft Office 365. This service is available for free and allows BlackBerry users to take advantage of the Microsoft Office 365 services.
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