While the lucky visitors at this year’s rAge will be able to play Electronic Arts’ upcoming Battlefield 3, the open beta has just been launched to the public on Xbox, PlayStation 3 and PC. Played on the Operation Métro map in Rush mode that won DICE Best Action Game and Best Multiplayer Game at E3, [...]
Telkom executive for Converged Business Services Steven White has announced that Telkom will be offering customers a wide range of uncapped ADSL products for home use. The Do Uncapped products will remove all restrictions on data volumes, which Telkom says will satisfy their consumers’ growing appetite for more media and online content. As to why [...]
With the launch of Gears of War 3, many fans stood for long hours in queues, trying to get their hands on a copy of the game as soon as it was released – and it seemed to have paid off. Xbox Live’s Major Nelson has announced that the title managed to break all sorts [...]
Sony Ericsson is adding to its ever growing ecosystem of over 150 optimised titles for Xperia PLAY with a partnership with Square Enix. The partnership will bring much loved titles such as Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light exclusively to Android on Xperia PLAY in November 2011. More established hits from Square Enix will [...]
From satellite tracking to GPS to geocaching, the world is hooked on technology. It’s not impossible to imagine a time when we slip one step further and move from external devices to internal…literally implanting chips inside people. Prosthetic limbs already prove that the relationship between organic and manufactured can yield incredibly positive results. So, why [...]
A mobile tariff war is looming in Kenya following an announcement by Kenyan mobile operator Yu, the mobile phone brand of Essar Telecom Kenya Limited, that its promotion of on-net calls would be made permanent. The promotion, which allows Yu subscribers to make free on-net calls daily between 6am and 6pm was scheduled to end [...]
Bharti Airtel has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its 2G (GSM/EDGE) networks and deploy 3G networks in seven African countries. Under the agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will manage end-to-end network operations, including planning, designing and implementing the 2G and 3G networks for Airtel. The vendor will [...]
With the annual rAge gaming expo kicking off later today in Johannesburg, visitors will be treated to all the latest gaming and gadgets from around the world, and get sneak peeks at some of the unreleased games that will only be available later this year. At the Megarom stand, visitors will be treated to private [...]
Mark White, US Consulting Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Deloitte, who is in South Africa for the first time, presented key findings on the ‘Technology Trends of 2011 – The natural convergence of business and IT”, to Senior ICT Executives at a function held at the Deloitte corporate offices in Johannesburg. The Deloitte 2011 Technology [...]
Despite increasing concerns about the safeguarding of vital corporate and client information databases and a global drive towards stronger regulation regarding privacy, the vast majority of businesses have only limited capabilities in place to detect and react to point-in-time breaches. Mark White, US Consulting Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Deloitte, who is in South Africa [...]
Following in the footsteps of former Research in Motion (RIM) regional director Deon Liebenberg, another RIM director has chosen to walk over to rival Samsung. Craige Fleisher, RIM’s regional director for Southern Africa, will be taking up a new position at Samsung on the 1st of October 2011. A RIM spokesperson confirmed to ITNewsAfrica that [...]