Author: Gugu Lourie
Huawei lights up London with Huawei P8 Smartphone launch on 15th April 2015. Watch the highly anticipated…
The Soweto Wireless User Group (SOWUG) says it will go live this month, and it is partly thanks to critical support received from Africa’s only vendor neutral data centre, Teraco. By Staff writer SOWUG is a registered Non-Profit Organisation that provides free wireless to residents of Soweto. It forms part of a number of development projects facilitated by The Foundation for Internet Development (FID), which was formed by ZACR (formerly UniForum SA), ISPA, WAPA and ISOC-ZA to provide a mechanism for ICT industry players to make a meaningful contribution in terms of Enterprise Development, but do not have the capacity, nor…
By Christian Barry Many millions of people throughout the world will illegally download the fifth season of Game of Thrones, released today by HBO. Legally speaking, what they will be doing is a violation of intellectual property rights, or “piracy”. But will they be doing anything morally wrong? It might seem obvious that what they will do is wrong. After all, it is illegal. But there are many things that have been illegal that people don’t think are morally wrong. Same-sex relationships, divorce and many other practices that are now widely accepted as morally acceptable were once outlawed and criminally…
For immediate release 15 April 2015 MTN optimising its network To improve the coverage and quality of its network, MTN announced a R10 billion investment in capital expenditure in March earmarked for 2015. This massive investment has been allocated for infrastructure upgrades across the country in order to optimise the network and provide better service and connectivity to our customers. The network upgrades have already commenced at various regions across the country and entail, among others, the construction of new base stations, the refarming of existing voice spectrum for deployment of new generation technologies such as the…
By Daryl Blundell, General Manager at Sage Pastel Accounting Load shedding is here to stay, so every small business needs to take steps to protect its systems and data when the lights go out as well as from power surges when electricity is restored after an outage. PCs are sensitive to power cuts, power dips and power surges, so take the necessary steps to protect them. When Eskom cuts the power, you could not only lose the latest changes to the files you’re working on, your open files could become so corrupted or damaged that you will not be able…
By Staff writer Vox Telecom has launched CloudBackup, an online application to deliver simple, secure, local and reliable backup aimed at consumers and small businesses, at a competitive and cost effective price point. “We all know someone that has lost all of their music, photos and personal documents when their computer crashed or was stolen. Backing up data just isn’t second nature for us – but the results of losing everything is undeniably catastrophic,” says Says Justin Elms, Senior Product Manager of Infrastructure Services. CloudBackup from Vox Telecom not only simplifies backups, by automating them, it makes the recovery of…
Government’s e-Tender portal should be up and running and will incorporate tenders from municipalities as from the 1st of July 2015. The e-Tender portal was launched on the 1st of April 2015 under the command of the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer. The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is responsible for technical support, maintenance and hosting of the portal. In a statement announcing the project, National Treasury said the e-Tender project is linked to a broader objective of modernising the state’s Supply Chain Management which includes the establishment of a central supplier database. The e-Tender portal was described as…
If you need to secure your home and are looking for affordable quality monitoring equipment that that’s easy to set up and use both indoors and outdoors, I recommend that you get yourself a Vox Telecom Guardian Eye Lite outdoor IP camera. This Wi-Fi-enabled IP-based camera keeps an eye on your home or business via a smart device – smartphone or tablet. You will, however, need a Wi-Fi router and internet connection to activate the camera. I mounted the camera on my garage, which has a Wi-Fi network from Telkom. I was able to view the access area to my…
Mobile phone operators have increased efforts to bring internet services to the average South Africans through cheaper communication gadgets. Until now the local smartphone industry had been dominated by Android and iOS operating systems. However, smartphones that use this type of operating systems are mostly expensive – even the lower-end ones are still out of reach for the average person. High-end models like Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge, which allow users internet connectivity, cost several thousand rand. However, there is good news. MTN has introduced cheaper Alcatel OneTouch Fire E smartphone, which is a Firefox OS-based…
By Staff writer US-based Ruckus Wireless, a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market, on Monday announced that it was expanding its presence in SA with a new office to accommodate its growing staff, providing centralised operational management and sales support of partners and customers in the sub-Saharan region. “We have been operating on the continent since November 2011 with a direct presence in South Africa for the last three years, and have grown tremendously,” said Michael Fletcher, sales director for Ruckus Wireless, sub-Saharan Africa. “The next logical step is having an office from which…