Author: Gugu Lourie
South Africa’s third biggest mobile phone operator Cell C said full service to customers has been restored to Johannesburg south customers who were affected by voice calls and SMS problems caused by hardware failure. In a media release issued this afternoon, Cell said a problem caused by a hardware failure in one of its data centres affecting voice and SMS for some customers based in Johannesburg South, the East Rand and the Midrand areas was resolved just after 2pm. “Full service to customers is restored. We thank our customers for their patience while our engineers worked on the problem and we…
The Foschini Group (TFG) have developed Super Stan, a fun interactive online 8bit game ahead of the TFG Shop Hop – an exclusive online super sale day. By Staff Writer Super Stan, inspired by the Nintendo megahit Super Mario Bros, was created to educate customers around the breadth and depth of the TFG eMall, in the run up to its Shop Hop sale day, which will showcase the many stores and products. The aim of the game is to navigate Stan on a mission to grab as much merchandise from as many stores as he can. Evil shopping trollleys have…
Speech delivered by Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister, Siyabonga Cwele at the 2016 Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) in George, Western Cape on 5 September 2016. It is a great pleasure to be meeting all of you in what may be called our annual spring gathering, SATNAC. This conference has become an unrivalled platform for knowledge output, peer learning and networking for people in the Information and Communication Technologies sector. We therefore look forward to the fresh ideas that you are bringing. The theme for this year, “Broadband Evolution – Unlocking the ‘Internet of Things’ ” offers…
We have received numerous calls from clients on MTN Zakhele Futhi. We are including some key points herein to assist you as our client. By Inkunzi Wealth Group The Zakhele Futhi scheme will take the form of a public offering. African, Coloured, and Indian South Africa citizens by birth or descent will be invited to subscribe for and own shares in Zakhele Futhi. There will be a verification process to ensure interested parties are qualifying black participants. Minimum investment amount of R2,000 required. New investors locked in for three years before they can trade the shares. After three years, investors…
More than 20 percent of all Americans have at least one tattoo, and for millennials that number jumps to almost 40 percent. By Shontavia Johnson What could be more intimately a part of you than a work of body art permanently inked into your skin? You probably assume that the tattoo on your body belongs to you. But, in actuality, somebody else might own your tattoo. Recent lawsuits and events have shown that tattoo artists and companies can have intellectual property rights in tattoos worn by others, including both copyright and trademark rights. Tattoo-related lawsuits are not uncommon. Just this year,…
The Labour Court today gave an order that fourteen Communication Workers Union (CWU) members, including their president, must on the return date, in November 2016, appear in court to show cause why it should not hold them to be in contempt for contravening the interdict secured by Telkom on 15 August 2016. The interdict prohibits the CWU and its members from blockading Telkom entrances and exits and restrained CWU from interfering with Telkom’s operations. Telkom employees along with contractors, customers, suppliers, and shoppers, this week, in various malls, have been subjected to threats and intimidation by the strikers. This includes…
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has issued a warning of a scam that is targeting liquor licence holders. By News Agency “The National Liquor Authority (NLA) of the dti has received a number of enquiries relating to suspicious WhatsApp and SMS messages, in which both national and provincial licence holders are requested to deposit certain monies for the renewal of their liquor licences,” said the dti in a statement on Thursday. The messages are sent from this number: 082007229288038. The message reads: Payment reminder: Liquor License admin fee is outstanding with R250.00 for the year 2016. Payment is…
HP today announced the appointment of David Rozzio as the new managing director of HP in South Africa. By Staff Writer Rozzio brings a wealth of industry experience that he has accumulated during his 15 years at HP across different business units and segments. Most recently he was director, Channel and SMB, for HP’s Printing and Personal Systems business in the Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa (MEMA). “I look forward to working with our customers and partners to help reinvent computing and printing for organisations of all sizes,” said Rozzio. Rozzio has held key roles since joining HP in 2001…
JustLearn.me is a brand new live streaming online platform that allows students and tutors to interact with one another from the comfort and safety of their own homes or preferred environments. By Staff Writer This ground-breaking initiative, a first of its kind in South Africa, pushes the boundaries of education by making access to learning easy, safe and convenient for students all across the country. Uviwe Faku, a young black entrepreneur and accounting student at the University of Cape Town, is the founder of JustLearn.me. “It is no secret that South Africa is currently facing a huge education crisis, through…
Imagine driving a car, using a heads-up display projection on the windshield to navigate through an unfamiliar city. This is augmented reality (AR); the information is used to not only guide you along a route, but also to alert you to salient information in your surroundings, such as cyclists or pedestrians. The correct placement of virtual content is not only crucial, but perhaps a matter of life and death. By Ann McNamara Information can’t obscure other material, and should be displayed long enough for you to understand it, but not too much longer than that. Computer systems have to make these…