Service award winners named

Service award winners named

The South African Service Awards has recognised the companies that differentiate themselves through outstanding customer experience. The winners of the third annual South African Service Awards were announced on Friday (11 April), with First Car Rental taking the...

Nashua Mobile sells subscribers

Nashua Mobile is set to close down its operations and has agreed to sell Vodacom and MTN subscribers to the operators. It is also looking for a buyer for its Cell C users. Nashua Mobile has not renewed its agreements on the terms on which it was appointed as a service...

APIs make realtime election data available

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is creating functionality in the form of application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide election data in realtime to stakeholders including politicians, media institutions and other interested parties. These APIs are...

SA sees breakthrough CAD treatment

The world’s first polymeric bio-resorbable drug-eluting vascular scaffold (BVS) for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) is now available in South Africa from Baroque Medical. CAD, a narrowing of one or more arteries that supply blood to the heart, is the...

BlackBerry commits to its handset business

BlackBerry has scotched rumours, following a Reuters article, that it may exit the handset business. Interim CEO John Chen, writing on the company’s official blog, stresses the importance of devices in BlackBerry’s end-to-end strategy. “Reuters published an article...

XDSL extends footprint with DFA’s fibre

XDSL, a local Internet service provider (ISP), has entered into an agreement with Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) and Conduct, DFA’s last-mile fibre network subsidiary. The agreement provides XDSL with access to DFA’s 8 000km of installed fibre, increasing the footprint and...