Articles by Tefo Mohapi

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Wed, August 1st, 08:33 · Tefo Mohapi

Virgin Mobile South Africa to close 30 stores

Virgin Mobile South Africa is following through with its plans to revise its distribution strategy by closing 30 of its 38 stores in South Africa. → Read more
Wed, August 1st, 07:51 · Tefo Mohapi

Ross Levinsohn renounces key position at Yahoo!

Ross Levinsohn has resigned from Yahoo! following the appointment of Marrisa Mayer as CEO. → Read more
Wed, August 1st, 07:27 · Tefo Mohapi

Acting country manager appointed by EMC Southern Africa

Following the passing away of EMC’s Southern Africa country manager, Inana Nkanza, EMC has appointed Servaas Venter in his place in an acting capacity. → Read more
Wed, August 1st, 07:04 · Tefo Mohapi

SNIPS: Facebook’s new photo viewing experience

Facebook has enhanced and improved the photo section of its website. It includes the ability to show off photos that you like. → Read more
Tue, July 31st, 14:19 · Tefo Mohapi

SNIPS: Apple’s Mountain Lion OS exceeds 3 Million downloads in four days

Apple made an announcement today that downloads of its newly launched operating system, OS X Mountain Lion, have exceeded three million in four days. This makes it the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history. → Read more
Tue, July 31st, 13:51 · Tefo Mohapi

Oracle acquires Xsigo, network virtualization company

Oracle yesterday announced it has entered into an agreement to buy Xsigo Systems, a network virtualization technology provider. The acquisition is expected to extend Oracle’s virtualization capabilities by providing it with software-defined networking technology for cloud environments. → Read more
Tue, July 31st, 13:30 · Tefo Mohapi

Bandwidth prices drop by 67% in Lesotho

The West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) has stated that Internet bandwidth prices in Lesotho have fallen by approximately 67 percent as a result of the region's connection to terrestrial and submarine fibre-optic cable networks. → Read more
Mon, July 30th, 12:53 · Tefo Mohapi

Internet use grows at the expense of voice demand, in South Africa

South Africa’s mobile service providers are noticing a shift in consumer spending as mobile phone owners begin to focus spending on more data usage. → Read more
Mon, July 30th, 12:23 · Tefo Mohapi

Smartphones are affecting cellphone banking in South Africa, study shows

The Mobile Consumer in SA 2012 study, which comprises mobile phone use and banking trends in South Africa shows that a majority of the country’s mobile phone banking takes place via text messages. → Read more
Mon, July 30th, 10:00 · Tefo Mohapi

Official Twitter Olympics page launched

The microblogging site Twitter continues to showcase its recently launched "event pages" by launching an official page for the London Olympics 2012. → Read more
Mon, July 30th, 09:50 · Tefo Mohapi

Research shows that Samsung leads on worldwide mobile phone shipments

A research report published by the International Data Corporation research company, IDC, shows that Samsung now leads in worldwide mobile phone and smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2012. In addition, Samsung and Apple shipped almost half of the world’s smartphones, according to the report. → Read more
Mon, July 30th, 09:33 · Tefo Mohapi

Uganda’s New Vision switches to paid online subscriptions

The digital version of Uganda’s leading print newspaper New Vision is now exclusively available for paid online subscribers. → Read more
Sat, July 28th, 06:21 · Tefo Mohapi

Airtel Nigeria unveils Ramadan specials

Airtel Nigeria unveiled a special Ramadan offer for its customers who subscribe to the Voice Islamic Content through the Ramadan season. → Read more
Sat, July 28th, 06:00 · Tefo Mohapi

EMC Southern Africa Country Manager passes away

Mr. Inana Nkanza, Country Manager for EMC Southern Africa, passed away after a short illness on July 26, 2012. → Read more
Sat, July 28th, 04:23 · Tefo Mohapi

Study says IT consumerization is good for productivity

Dell and Intel released on Wednesday findings from a report of the final phase of a multi-year research effort that shows IT consumerization is dependent on an open-minded approach by organizations, and most likely to succeed with specific, pre-defined parameters. → Read more
Fri, July 27th, 13:54 · Tefo Mohapi

South Africa’s SecureData appoints new chief

Miles Crisp has been appointed as SecureData’s new chief executive officer. He will assume his duties on August 1, 2012. → Read more
Fri, July 27th, 12:29 · Tefo Mohapi

Twitter’s engineering VP apologises for outage

Twitter yesterday experienced an outage that left hundreds of millions of its users unable to access the popular microblogging site and its mobile applications. → Read more
Fri, July 27th, 11:32 · Tefo Mohapi

Apple’s Mountain Lion now available in App Store

Apple announced on Wednesday that its Mac operating system named OS X Mountain Lion, the ninth major release, is available as a download from the Mac App Store. → Read more
Fri, July 27th, 10:05 · Tefo Mohapi

Samuel Eto’o’s Mobile Services company now running in Cameroon

Set’Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) owned by Cameroon’s world-famous footballer Samuel Eto’o, officially launched its commercial services in the West African country this week. → Read more
Fri, July 27th, 09:30 · Tefo Mohapi

Facebook releases financial results, reports 955 million monthly active users

The social networking firm Facebook yesterday released its first financial results after its much-publicized IPO. It reported a US$157 million in the quarter, a significant loss compared to the same period of reporting last year. → Read more