Articles by Tefo Mohapi

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Mon, June 25th, 12:37 · Tefo Mohapi

Nedbank launches Mobile App Suite to staff ahead of public launch

Nedbank has launched a suite of mobile apps to its staff ahead of a major launch that will make the app available to the public and the bank's customers. The app suite has been in development for the past two years, according to Nedbank. → Read more
Mon, June 25th, 10:10 · Tefo Mohapi

Report shows nearly half of company networks will be obsolete in 5 years

A report released today by South African headquartered, global ICT solutions provider -- Dimension Data -- reveals that 45 percent of the network estates of the nearly 300 organisations the company assessed during 2011 will be obsolete within five years. → Read more
Mon, June 25th, 08:24 · Tefo Mohapi

Vodacom Lesotho uses green energy for base stations

Green energy technologies, namely wind and solar power, now power some 25 percent of Vodacom Lesotho’s cellular base stations. The move, viewed to reduce carbon emissions, puts Lesotho among the word’s few countries that have adopted the technology. → Read more
Sat, June 23rd, 05:00 · Tefo Mohapi

Inaugural Software Week to be launched in Cape Town

The first ever awards for the software industry in South Africa will be presented at the inaugural Software Week in Cape Town. The annual event will be hosted from October 13 to 19, 2012 in Cape Town at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 13:37 · Tefo Mohapi

Silicon Cape continues to nest supportive ecosystem for startups in South Africa

The Silicon Cape Initiative, also the Silicon Cape, has grown to become a champion for technology startups not only in the Western Cape but also in the whole of South Africa since its launch on October 8, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 12:16 · Tefo Mohapi

SA’s Exclusive Books pioneers gamification and social bookselling

South African retailer Exclusive Books has launched a new feature on its website tagged “Stickers” that brings social business and gamification to online book sale. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 07:12 · Tefo Mohapi

Google launches YouTube in Ghana

Google announced on Thursday that the people of Ghana will now be able to post videos and also view local videos on the new YouTube Ghana website. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 06:58 · Tefo Mohapi

Twitter goes down for an hour, uses Tumblr to update users

Micro-blogging site Twitter experienced an outage at around 16h30 GMT making access to the website, mobile site and mobile apps intermittent for a period of approximately one hour. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 12:46 · Tefo Mohapi

Google steps in to save 3,000 plus languages from extinction

Search engine giant Google has launched an initiative to save 3,054 endangered languages worldwide through its philanthropic arm the Google.Org. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 04:00 · Tefo Mohapi

Blackberry updates Facebook app with two new features

The Facebook for Blackberry Smartphones App has been updated with two new features, the main one being the addition of “Facebook Groups.” → Read more
Wed, June 20th, 14:06 · Tefo Mohapi

Jo’burgers love Monte Casino, according to Facebook data

South Africa’s Johannesburg was among the 25 cities around the world that Facebook used to find the most popular social landmarks -- using the social network’s check-in data. According to the data, Monte Casino, a mall and casino in the northern parts of the city, is the most visited place. → Read more
Tue, June 19th, 12:32 · Tefo Mohapi

Blackberry-maker Celestica to stop manufacturing for RIM in six months

Canada-based electronics manufacturing company Celestica has announced it will be winding down its manufacturing services for Research In motion (RIM), the company behind the Blackberry smartphone, in the next three to six months. → Read more
Tue, June 19th, 07:30 · Tefo Mohapi

Microsoft unveils its new tablet branded Microsoft Surface

After almost a week’s speculation on what major announcement the software giant would be making, Microsoft has revealed its own-brand family of tablets named the Microsoft Surface. → Read more
Tue, June 19th, 07:08 · Tefo Mohapi

Expanded Tweets to make Twitter more interactive with content previews

With an aim of making the leading microblogging site more interactive, Twitter has partnered with a number of online media companies to enable users to have access to a range of multimedia content when expanding a tweet. → Read more
Sat, June 16th, 05:00 · Tefo Mohapi

Dell’s move to cut costs and possibly jobs over next 3 years viewed to spiral up to Africa

The world’s third largest PC maker Dell has announced it will give shareholders US$0.08 per share dividend and in a move to maintain giving dividends quarterly, looks to cut costs by US$2 Billion over the next three years. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 15:59 · Tefo Mohapi

Africa to have its own Top Level Domain – .Africa

The day that saw a flurry of new Top Level Domain (TLD) applications being filed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), also saw an application by UNIFORUM South Africa (UNIFORUM), in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), for the Top Level Domain, .africa. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 15:31 · Tefo Mohapi

Linus Torvalds awarded Finland’s Millenium Technology Prize along with human genome scientist

Linus Torvalds has been awarded the Grand Prize of the Millenium Technology Prize for his work in creating of a new open source operating system for computers which led to the popular Linux kernel. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 08:16 · Tefo Mohapi

South Africa’s Nedbank pushes launch of mobile banking app to June

Nedbank South Africa, through its spokesperson, has said the mobile app initially scheduled for launch in May by its chief executive Mike Brown will now be launched towards the end of June. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 07:00 · Tefo Mohapi

Ford’s new electric car to work with a phone-based app MyFord Mobile

Car maker Ford announced its first ever car to work purely on electricity called Ford Focus Electric, alongside a mobile app named MyFord Mobile, which aims to assist would-be users of the new electric car locate the nearest charging stations. → Read more
Thu, June 14th, 14:50 · Tefo Mohapi

Vodacom SA offers alternative method to pay for BlackBerry Apps

Vodacom South Africa and BlackBerry have announced today that customers can now pay for BlackBerry Apps using their prepaid credit balance or through their contract account. The new method of payment also applies to in-app purchases. → Read more