Articles by Tefo Mohapi

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Fri, November 16th, 10:24 · Tefo Mohapi

Interactive map announced by mapIT for Johannesburg’s 94.7 cycle challenge

Digital mapmaker mapIT yesterday, along with media firm Primedia and Altech Netstar, vehicle tracking and recovery specialist, announced the launch of the online Interactive Map, Route Maps, Race Profiles and Mobi Site for The 2012 Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge slated for later this month in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
Fri, November 16th, 08:15 · Tefo Mohapi

Nokia Lumia 920 now selling in South Africa

Nokia South Africa has today announced that its flagship Windows Phone 8 smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 920, is now available for retailing in South Africa. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 12:59 · Tefo Mohapi

Top South African primary school embarks on ambitious computerisation project

Hillcrest Primary School in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa has commissioned the first phase of a R1.3 million (approximately US$ 150,000) computerisation project designed to equip learners with laptops linked to “a modern, secure, fully interactive ‘campus’ network.” → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 12:44 · Tefo Mohapi

Botswana officially launches innovation hub

Botswana’s Innovation Hub (BIH) was officially launched in the Southern African country earlier in this week. The centre is an initiative by Botswana’s government to reduce the country’s dependency on mining, particularly diamonds, a key contributor to its economy. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 12:23 · Tefo Mohapi

Oracle makes minority investment in Platform-As-A-Service company

Tech giant Oracle has said it had made a strategic minority investment in a Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) company named Engine Yard. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 12:14 · Tefo Mohapi

Nokia launches new cross platform brand for its location and mapping services

Finnish mobile phone-maker Nokia introduced a cross platform brand for location and mapping services dubbed HERE, billed as “the first location cloud to deliver the world's best maps and location experiences across multiple screens and operating systems.” → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 11:03 · Tefo Mohapi

Two new directors nominated to Telkom SA’s board

South Africa’s Telkom yesterday announced the appointment of two new non-executive directors, namely Jabulane Albert Mabuza and Kholeka Mzondeki, to its board. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 09:56 · Tefo Mohapi

South Africa is way behind in gamification

With the principles of gamification being incorporated into business models, business apps and services globally, South Africa is seen as lagging in this field said to be because the country’s Film and Publications Board (FPB) is also responsible for software ratings, according to a report by MIP Holdings. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 09:25 · Tefo Mohapi

REVIEW: Nokia Asha 311 – Forever young

Early last month, Nokia South Africa launched the new range of all-touch Asha range of phones that expanded the number of available brands in the market to 10. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 07:51 · Tefo Mohapi

The Curious Case of Nyagaka Anyona Ouko, the Mobile Money Transfer Innovator – Part II

Technology startups in Africa face many obstacles ranging from insufficient capital to start their businesses, and more frustratingly, government red-tape and bureaucracy. Nyagaka Anyona Ouko experienced one such trying experience that forced him to change strategy albeit leading him into more hurdles. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 07:10 · Tefo Mohapi

Zambia’s Secret Service creating database of all mobile phone users

Zambia’s secret service OoP, or simply OP (Office of the president), is creating a database of all mobile phone users in the Southern African country. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 07:03 · Tefo Mohapi

New mobile head for Telkom South Africa named

South Africa’s Telkom has appointed Attila Vitai as its new mobile division head. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 06:48 · Tefo Mohapi

Dimension Data’s Kevin Leahy talks on the drivers changing data center strategies

Kevin Leahy who is Dimension Data’s chief architect for virtualisation and cloud believes there are a number of drivers that are shaping the data centre strategies of CIOs, the result of several macro-economic, geographical and developmental shifts including location, policy and automation and cloud communities. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 08:22 · Tefo Mohapi

Quantum Edge now powers South Africa’s RICA engine

Previously, all SIM data was captured via Micosoft Excel and submitted manually for the process of registering SIM cards by South Africa’s Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication (RICA), according to the managing director of Quantum Edge Renier de Beer. The process has now been automated. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 06:16 · Tefo Mohapi

Windows division head leaves Microsoft

Microsoft has announced that Steven Sinofsky, the Windows and Windows Live President, will be leaving the company, and that Julie Larson-Green will lead all Windows software and hardware engineering. The changes take effect immediately. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 12:43 · Tefo Mohapi

HP’s PowerCARD software, a cost-effective alternative card payment system

HP, one of the world’s largest IT companies, recently announced that banks, retailers and telecom operators can now boost the cost-effectiveness of their card operations with the HP PowerCARD payment management software. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 08:36 · Tefo Mohapi

Google SA partners with 8ta to launch free Internet initiative

Search engine giant Google has, in conjunction with South African telcos 8ta, today announced the Free Zone initiative expected to give people access to mobile Web search and feature-phone-friendly versions of Gmail and Google+ with zero data charges. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 16:09 · Tefo Mohapi

The Curious Case of Nyagaka Anyona Ouko, the Mobile Money Transfer ‘innovator’ – Part I

Since the launch of the Vodafone Mobile Money Transfer Service, popularly known as M-PESA, in Kenya five years ago, Safaricom / Vodafone have faced a wave of allegations claiming the telecoms giant ‘stole’ the idea. One unresolved case has even ended up in the courts. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 14:01 · Tefo Mohapi

INTERVIEW: biNu’s Mark Shoebridge on the next 4 billion users

Feature phones are widely used in the developing world, especially in Africa, to access the Internet leaving the user on the periphery as far as new Web services targeted and developed for smartphones are concerned. An Australian technology startup company believes it has the solution to this. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 10:07 · Tefo Mohapi

SA’s Vodacom reports positive results for half-year, active customers up to 50.1 million

South African telco Vodacom has reported that its international operations have delivered “very strong operational performance”, with revenue from international operations increasing by 36.5 percent for the half-year financial period ending September 30 2012. → Read more