9th Feb 2013
Nedbank reveals mobile POS solution
Nedbank has unveiled a mobile point-of-sale solution aimed at small and medium businesses, dubbed PocketPOS.
The PocketPOS device can accept credit and debit card payments securely when connected via Bluetooth to a mobile application on a smartphone.
“As long as there is a cellphone signal, the Nedbank PocketPOS mobile application ...
9th Feb 2013
End of Windows XP support
Microsoft’s end of support for the venerable XP operating system on 8 April 2014 could have unfortunate consequences for most UK organisations, which still lack a plan for migrating XP legacy apps.
According to new research, 52 per cent of UK IT departments have yet to put in place a strategy for dealing with applications that currently ...
18th Jan 2013
Vodacom customers demand refund
Many BlackBerry users on Vodacom’s network have been left disgruntled, after an outage on Friday left them without data services for about four hours, and are demanding some form of recompense for the inconvenience suffered.
The network failure between Vodafone and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) in Europe that caused the ...
18th Jan 2013
Orange begins SA foray
Orange, the French telecommunications giant that has had the rumour mill in SA turning as to whether it is going to enter the local market on the consumer front, has made its first footprints on local soil.
The company yesterday announced the launch of a new subsidiary, Orange Horizons, which it says aims to “seek out new business ...
