Articles by Tefo Mohapi

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Mon, November 12th, 09:46 · Tefo Mohapi

Card details leaked as security breach reported at firm behind online transactions in South Africa

Private credit card and banking details have been leaked as a result of a security breach at a company which processes online transactions, the Payments Association of SA (Pasa) said on Friday. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 12:22 · Tefo Mohapi

Nigeria adopts computer-based tests for university admissions, dons react

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the body in charge of admissions into Nigeria’s institutions of higher learning, has announced that from 2013, it will begin using computer-based tests (CBT) instead of the regular paper examinations to screen candidates seeking admission into the country’s colleges, the board’s executive registrar Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has said. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 11:47 · Tefo Mohapi

Vodafone in the pound seats as Safaricom reports half-year results, M-PESA the crown jewel

Kenya’s integrated telecoms operator Safaricom yesterday reported its financial results for the half-year as of end of September 2012, showing M-Pesa, the Vodafone mobile money transfer service, as the crown jewel across all its offerings. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 10:52 · Tefo Mohapi

Illiterate Ethiopian children manage to hack Android

In an interesting statement, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) founder Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the illiterate Ethiopian children they had given the locked down Motorola Xoom tablets earlier this year have within five months not only started teaching themselves English, but managed to bypass the security on the tablet’s operating system to customize settings and to activate disabled hardware such as the camera. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 10:21 · Tefo Mohapi

SA’s GustPay launches Event Intelligence product for cashless payments at events

South Africa-based mobile payments startup GustPay recently held its second cashless event dubbed the “Grim Furdango 2.0”, in partnership with RAMfest and Boom.fm to refine its Event Intelligence product. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 09:11 · Tefo Mohapi

Mission critical IT environments to gain from HP’s integrated portfolio

HP recently strengthened its mission-critical Converged Infrastructure portfolio with innovative and enhanced HP Integrity systems, HP-UX software and services to triple performance, boost resiliency and deliver investment protection for critical workloads in critical IT environments. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 08:37 · Tefo Mohapi

MasterCard announces high-tech card with screen and keyboard

Global payments solutions leader MasterCard Worldwide, has, in partnership with Singapore’s Standard Chartered Bank, announced next generation interactive card, also known as a security token card, that uses its Display Card technology. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 07:15 · Tefo Mohapi

Vodacom SA expands LTE coverage to Cape Town, more stations in Jo’burg

Vodacom South Africa yesterday said it has tripled the number of Long Term Evolution (LTE) enabled base stations in its network from just under 70, when it launched a month ago to over 200 in Johannesburg. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 06:57 · Tefo Mohapi

Datacentrix announces cloud offering for South Africa

South Africa’s Datacentrix, a provider of high performing and secure ICT solutions, has officially introduced its cloud computing offering aimed at assisting enterprise-level customers in meeting their off-premise outsourcing needs. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:17 · Tefo Mohapi

Rand Merchant Bank’s renews IT outsourcing contract with Dimension Data

FirstRand, one of South Africa’s leading financial institutions, has renewed Rand Merchant Bank’s IT outsourcing services contract with Dimension Data, the global IT systems integrator announced today. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 11:29 · Tefo Mohapi

Speakers and agenda for Mobile Web Africa 2012 announced

All Amber, the organizers of premier continental technology events, has today announced details of the fourth annual Mobile Web Africa (MWA2012) conference slated for Johannesburg in the final week of November. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:00 · Tefo Mohapi

DCA’s misplay laughable as ZACR foretells .africa victory

The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) remains confident it will win the rights to administer the africa Top Level Domain (TLD) once the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) process reaches conclusion, as it has the required 60 percent support of African governments for a geographic name domain. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:36 · Tefo Mohapi

Apple sells 3 million iPad minis and iPad 4’s in 3 days, really?

Apple reports it sold 3 million iPads (iPad 4 and iPad mini) just 3 days after the products' respective launches. The company however fails to divulge further on the specific sales numbers for the iPad mini and iPad 4. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:28 · Tefo Mohapi

Tim Knowles resigns as Stortech’s boss

Having served as the chief executive officer of South Africa’s Vodacom-owned Stortech since August 2003, Tim Knowles has renounced his position. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:04 · Tefo Mohapi

2go set for availability on smartphones

2go, Africa’s popular mobile social network, is making its phone app available to smartphones. At the same time, the company has announced that it will be growing its software development team. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:06 · Tefo Mohapi

Easy2Map wins Startup Knight software startups challenge

Startup Knight competition, which targets South African software-based startups, was launched just last month receiving numerous entrants. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 09:46 · Tefo Mohapi

NAIL to be acquired by Primedia

South Africa-based media company Primedia has offered to acquire the remaining shares of New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) that it does not own, the two announced jointly through a SENS message. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 07:02 · Tefo Mohapi

Increased uptake of Mimiboards across the continent

Mimiboards, also ‘electronic noticeboard’, has witnessed rapid uptake across Africa despite it still being in Beta stage and with almost no marketing, the Mimiboard network is attracting a million visits per month and could as well reach 5 million visitors a month by February 2013. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 06:48 · Tefo Mohapi

Dimension Data wins ‘Microsoft LAR Partner Of The Year’

Dimension Data South Africa won the Microsoft Large Account Reseller (LAR) Partner of the Year 2012 award at the annual Microsoft Partner Awards event, held last week at Helderfontein Estate. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 12:41 · Tefo Mohapi

Telkom SA’s chief resigns, another director follows

South Africa telecommunications firm Telkom has today said its chief executive officer Nombulelo Pinky Moholi had informed the company of her intention to step down. → Read more