Author: Gugu Lourie
Struggling technology firm Allied Electronics Corporation (Altron) announced on Monday plans to sell Powertech’s systems engineering business PTSI to Capitalworks for R140 million. By Staff Writer The firm, which is exploring strategic equity and technology partnerships with global industry players in other areas of the business to revamp the company, said it has entered into a binding written offer with Capitalworks Altron added that the disposal will exclude the businesses of Powertech QuadPro SA and Technology Integrated Solutions. The firm said PTSI was no longer a core asset for the Altron group. For the six months ended 31 August 2015, PTSI generated…
China plans to create a credit reporting system that ranks people on trustworthiness using a all kinds of data, from finances to Facebook. Sound far-fetched? It’s happening in the US too. By Caren Morrison China has a problem. No, not Donald Trump trying to savage it any time he comes within three feet of a microphone. It’s that enormous social shifts in recent years – like the forcible relocation of 250 million people from rural areas to urban environments – have transformed the country, in the words of its Academy of Social Sciences, from “a society of acquaintances into a…
Everyone knows that the cloud is growing as a market. However, many companies still struggle with the concept or the reasons why it can benefit their business. This is a great opportunity for resellers – not only to increase revenue, but also to be seen as trusted a partner that can help your customer’s business to grow. By Gary de Menezes, Country Manager Southern Africa, NetApp For resellers, there are five key areas to consider when discussing the possibility of cloud solutions with customers. How does cost impact your customers’ decision making process? For customers, most conversations around cloud technology…
Telkom will be putting its fibre technology to the test in the Telkom Unlimited Movie Marathon Guinness World Records™ attempt. Using Telkom’s Boltspeed fibre to stream over 122 hours of movies, selected participants will attempt to break the current world record for longest marathon watching films, which currently stands at 120 hours 23 minutes (about five days). By Staff Writer An accomplished endurance record breaker, Suresh Joachim, will fly in from Canada for the event to try to attempt to break the record. He will however be competing against ten local South Africans who will also be attempting to achieve…
Computers have always been good at doing fast calculations, but adapting to the emotional state of the person using the computer – now there is a grand challenge! The field is called affective computing, and soon it will be an important factor in the way people and computers communicate with each other. By David Tuffley The computer will interpret your body language to determine how you are feeling and then tailor its response intuitively, just as we do with each other. What’s more, we will like it because it is far more intuitive than the keyboard, mouse and touch screen as…
President Jacob Zuma and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari are expected to meet in Johannesburg this week to discuss the $5.2 billion (R74 billion) fine imposed on MTN Group’s Nigerian unit for failure to register 5.1 million customers. By Staff Writer The Sunday Times newspaper said Buhari is expected to meet Zuma on the sidelines of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation, which gets under way in Johannesburg this week. The South African government has been unwilling to confirm or deny its involvement in the MTN matter. Clayson Monyela, spokesman for the Department of International Relations, told the Sunday Times that government…
Online businesses helped spur on a 24% year-on-year revenue growth at internet and media giant Naspers. By Gareth van Zyl, NewsAgency In its interim results announcement on Friday, Naspers reported that its revenue measured on an economic interest base topped R74.3bn for the six months ended September 2015. Meanwhile, the company also said that its core headline earnings increased by 45% year on year to R8.8bn with its stake in Chinese internet giant Tencent and South African video-entertainment businesses being the main contributors. Naspers owns a 34% stake in Tencent. Breaking down its numbers further, Naspers reported that its internet segment…
Minister of Communications Faith Muthambi plans to appeal a court decision to have SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appointment declared unlawful and irrational. By Gareth van Zyl, NewsAgency Western Cape High Court Judge Dennis Davis handed down judgment on the matter on Friday amid a legal challenge from opposition party the Democratic Alliance (DA). The DA launched its court case against Muthambi regarding Motsoeneng’s appointment as chief operating officer following a report from Public Protector Thuli Madonsela that said Motsoeneng must be disciplined for falsely claiming to have a matric certificate. “(The) Minister has noted the judgment of the court and…
The DA won its high court application on Friday to have its appointment of SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng declared unlawful and irrational. By Jenni Evans, NewsAgency The Western Cape High Court’s judge Dennis Davis handed down the judgment in a few minutes. “We won,” said Democratic Alliance lawyer Anton Katz outside the court. – News24
The American sales tradition of Black Friday should be known as Bits and Bytes Friday in South Africa following the announcement by web hosting firm Domains.co.za that it is offering an enormous 300 gigabyte ADSL package for just R499 per month. As long as potential clients sign up for this special deal between Black Friday and Cyber Monday (Friday, 27 November from 00h00 until 23h59 on Monday, 30 November), they’ll be able to enjoy this no-contract, unshaped broadband offering with a whopping six-month rollover for an unlimited time. “We’re using Black Friday to celebrate just how far South Africa’s broadband market…