Gartner positions Dimension Data in leaders quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services

Dimension Data, the specialist IT solutions and services provider, announced on Wednesday that Gartner, the IT research and advisory company, had positioned it in the “Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services (COPS) 2012 report”. → Read more

Ghana’s President delivers inaugural address from Samsung Galaxy Tablet

Ghana’s new President elect, John Dramani Mahama, read his acceptance speech from what appeared to be a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Monday morning. → Read more

ICANN adds location for 2013 meetings

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has completed the selection of meeting sites for 2013, adding Buenos Aires, Argentina to planned events in Beijing and Durban. → Read more

Cisco Expo 2013 South Africa partners confirmed

Leading information and communication technology (ICT) companies have been confirmed as sponsors of the Cisco Expo 2013 South Africa, to be held in Sun City, from March 3-5. → Read more

iROKO adds Johannesburg to list of global offices

As previously reported by HumanIPO, iROKO Partners have opened their new office in South Africa in the central business district of Johannesburg. → Read more

New “Smarter and Easy to use” Home Wireless products launched by Cisco Linksys

Cisco Linksys will expand its Linksys Smart Wi-Fi portfolio with products including a 802.11ac powered Smart Wi-Fi Router, a new compact 802.11ac USB adapter, new features and new Smart Wi-Fi Apps, but availability in Africa has not been confirmed. → Read more

Shell renews global storage and hosting services contract with T-Systems

T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customer unit and owner of former South African government-owned ICT service provider arivia.kom, has renewed its business contract with energy giant Shell. → Read more

A Norton Cybercrime Report for 2012 forecasts cybercrime will increase in South Africa this year and a technology security expert warns of the increased threat of “business insider” crimes. → Read more

Millionaire 24-year-old Algerian Hacker wanted by the FBI arrested in Bangkok

Hamza Bendelladj, a 24-year-old alleged hacker has been arrested by police in Thailand and has been on the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) for three years. → Read more

Etisalat Egypt partners with Ericsson to prepare network for LTE coverage

Etisalat Egypt and Ericsson will “transform the telecom operator’s radio network to enable a full range of converged information and telecom services” in a new agreement. → Read more

No more capped ADSL for SA’s Telkom customers

Telkom, South Africa’s partially state owned telecommunications company, is removing the “hard cap” on its capped ADSL services, instead allowing customers to continue having Internet access even after exhausting their allocated traffic allowance. → Read more

Analysts predict mobile broadband to grow by 19% annually from 2013

Operators worldwide should bet on mobile broadband being their biggest opportunity for revenue for growth for the next three years, according to Ovum, the UK based technology analyst company. → Read more

Microsoft acquires home and entertainment technology startup

Microsoft have acquired home and entertainment technology startup id8 Group R2 Studios Inc in a bid to strengthen and grow its portfolio of home and entertainment based solutions. → Read more

Gartner sees global IT spending rising in 2013

Gartner, the global technology research, analyst and advisory company, forecasts worldwide IT spending to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion. → Read more

New Vox Telecom CEO announced

Jacques du Toit has been confirmed the new Chief Executive at South Africa’s Vox Telecom effective from 01 January 2013, replacing a joint CEO partnership. → Read more

2012 SA Blog Awards winners announced

New Year’s Eve saw the announcement of the winners of the “2012 SA Blog Awards” after a public voting phase and decision by judges on categories which included “The Best Science and Technology Blog”. → Read more

Meraki acquisition completed by Cisco

Cisco has finally concluded and announced the acquisition of Meraki, a cloud networking company that offers midmarket customers easy-to-deploy on-premise networking solutions that can be centrally managed from the cloud. → Read more

Ubuntu announces Linux-based alternative to Android for smartphones

Ubuntu, the open source Linux-based operating system founded by South Africa’s Mark Shuttleworth, have announced a smartphone version of their ever popular platform. → Read more

SA’s Nomanini boosting entrepreneurs and rural connectivity through Google App Engine

South African startup Nomanini is doing its part to encourage entrepreneurship and rural connectivity in the country by using Google’s App Engine as a backend system for its “Lula” (isiZulu for “easy”) portable mobile services voucher sales terminal. → Read more

Telecom Egypt to get mobile services license by mid-2013

Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority is to grant Telecom Egypt a mobile services license by the middle of this year as it pushes ahead with opening up the country’s telecommunications wholesale services market. → Read more