New head of services at Basset

Anders Sebardt has been appointed to the new position of head of services of Basset, the BSS solutions provider. Sebardt has considerable experience as head of Basset's project management and a strong drive for business development. Read more >>

Top achievers in IT industry to be honoured

The Computer Society of South Africa (CSSA), in partnership with leading IT publishers, academic and research institutions, every year recognises outstanding talent, leadership, vision and commitment of individuals and organisations within the ICT industry. Read more >>

Sony Ericsson is now all Sony

The joint venture between mobile phone company Ericsson and Sony is about to end after the Swedish telecommunications company announced that it would sell its 50% stake in the venture to Sony for €1,05-billion, according to The New Age. Read more >>

Service providers react faster to complaints - ISPA

Members of the South African Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) are responding faster than ever before to complaints about spam and phishing attempts originating from their networks. Read more >>

Spam mail slightly down says Kaspersky Lab report

Kaspersky Lab's report for September, 2011, has found that the volume of spam in mail traffic has decreased slightly when compared to August and averaged 78.5%. Read more >>

Developing countries need wireless broadband

Developing countries are a crucial segment of the wireless broadband telecommunications market and it is only through developing nations that the truly large economies of scale start to work, according to Adrian Scrase, head of Mobile Competence Centre 3GPP. Read more >>

MTN keeps climbing but Nigeria remains difficult

Mobile phone company MTN now has almost 159-million subscribers throughout Africa with more than 20-million in South Africa, according to a report published by Business Live that says the South African subscriber base grew by 5,9% during the September quarter. Read more >>

Android and Apple: different phones, different habits

OSLO, NORWAY: Did you know that users of Android phones are more likely to be active on music websites than iPhone owners? Or, that users of older, pre-smartphones are the most active social web users? These stats and more were revealed in this month's State of the Mobile Web report, published by web browser company Opera Software. Read more >>

Smartphones, tablets drive nearly 5% of digital traffic in EU5

LONDON, UK: The comScore, Inc overview of the mobile and connected device landscape across five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) shows cross-platform digital media consumption on the rise in the region, buoyed by the growth in adoption of smartphones, tablets and other non-computer web-enabled devices, collectively termed "connected devices". Read more >>