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Thu, November 8th, 11:47 · Vincent Matinde

Digital photo retailer, Fotolia sets foot in South Africa

Fotolia, one of the biggest stock photo website, becomes the first of its kind in South Africa to set up local pricing in local currency. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 10:10 · Nanine Steenkamp

Rats become currency for phones in South African township

LifeLine Southern Africa, a nonprofit focused on crisis intervention, has received 11,000 rats to trade in for more than 100 mobile phones to combat the "rat menace" in Johannesburg’s Alexandra Township. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 09:00 · Nanine Steenkamp

After South Africa, German T-Systems seeks more African frontiers

German global IT services and consulting company T-Systems is executing further African expansion plans through its South African office, from where the rest of the continent will be approached. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 08:18 · Vincent Matinde

Tourism Radio hits its 1 millionth device rental day

South Africa’s a digital tour guide Tourism Radio has hit its 1 millionth device rental day this month, edging it closer to monetisation. → 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, 13:26 · Nanine Steenkamp

Latest Opera release much user-friendly to South African users

The latest version of Opera Software, the Opera 12.10, includes a built-in South African website supporting desktop browser. → 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, 12:23 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mobile services hailed for boosting African mining

Viewed as one of Africa’s most profit generating sectors, mobile guided mining services provides an easy solution to aid with such aspects as drilling locations. → 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, 10:20 · Nanine Steenkamp

Banks in South Africa taking up Windows mobile apps

Two of South Africa’s top banks Nedbank and Standard Bank have recently made deals to develop banking apps for Microsoft’s Windows Phone smartphone platform. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:29 · Nanine Steenkamp

Global mobile solutions leader TCS to open African office

US-based TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), world leader in mobile communications technology, has said it plans to open an office in South Africa’s financial capital Johannesburg to serve as its central African domain. → 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, 13:28 · 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, 11:55 · Nanine Steenkamp

Tight contest for .africa domain

The .africa domain is being highly contested given the radical changes by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), organisation responsible for managing the Internet's addresses, which had recently opened up name applications. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:21 · Nanine Steenkamp

Cell C announces massive year-end LTE launches

Cell C has promised it would launch 4G alongside other Long Term Evolution (LTE) services by the end of the year, joining South African competitor mobile operators MTN and Vodacom in high-speed network provision. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:06 · Gythan Munga

Nonprofit uses phone exchange to rid Jo’burg of rats

South Africa’s LifeLine, a humanitarian organisation focused on counselling, is offering a free phone for every 60 rats caught, an initiative targeted at ending the “rat menace” in the nation’s township Alexandra. → 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