9 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 ...
18 Ian 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 ...
18 Ian 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 ...
17 Ian 2013
Apple TV arrives in SA
Local distributor of Apple products Core Group has announced that as of tomorrow, the Apple TV set-top box will be available in SA.
The recommended retail price for the Apple TV is R1 099, and Core says the product will be available at Apple premium resellers (iStore and Digicape) and selected Apple authorised retailers (Incredible Connection, ...
