Electronics News Digest 31 October 2007, News, Electronic News Digest AfricaMotorola has been selected by Warid Telecom Uganda to design and deploy an 802.16e WiMAX network in Uganda. Initial deployment, which is said to be progressing rapidly, is due for completion by ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 17 October 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaAngola Telecom has selected Ericsson to be the sole supplier of a US$70 million fibre-optic submarine network linking six coastal provinces in Angola. Expected to be completed by the ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 3 October 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Erratum It has been brought to Dataweek's attention by RF Design that, contrary to Siemens' claim - in the cover story of the 8 August 2007 issue - of supplying the market's only wireless modules capable ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 19 September 2007, News, Electronic News Digest OverseasBusiness After a year-long internal investigation into accounting irregularities whereby the company misled auditors and manipulated results, Dell has announced that "certain adjustments appear ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 5 September 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa With the establishment of a new Dubai-based Customer Care Centre, APC-MGE is improving services efficiencies and locating operations closer to the customer for the African region. The ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 22 August 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaPowertech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Altron, recently announced that an agreement has been concluded to acquire the 25% minority shareholder interest held by operating management in ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 8 August 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaVIA Technologies and Mecer have joined forces to provide an affordable new energy-efficient PC to the southern African educational market. The PC, featuring VIA's 1,5 GHz C7-D desktop ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 25 July 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaPoynting Antennas has announced the launch of its new online store for Cellular, IBurst and WiFi antennae, which can be accessed at www.poyntingdirect.co.za. IBM has launched its ...
Read more...Electronic News Digest 11 July 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Advanced Thermal Solutions has introduced a pair of research quality, open loop wind tunnels for acquiring the thermal characteristics of components, circuit boards, and cooling devices such as heatsinks, ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 27 June 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaVodacom has released some key financial highlights for the year to 31 March: total customers increased by 28,2% to 30,2 million; revenue increased by 20,9% to R41,1 billion; profit from ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 13 June 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaClickatell has appointed Deon van Heerden, its former UK country manager, as the company's new South African country manager and vice president of sales for the Middle East and Africa. ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 30 May 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaAltron reported headline earnings growth for the year ended 28 February 2007 of 51%. Altron reported an increase in revenue of 23% from R13,9 bn in the prior year to R17,1 bn and a rise ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 16 May 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaDenel has announced that a R1 bn missile deal had been signed between South Africa and Brazil. Denel Dynamics, the missile unit of the defence parastatal, had launched the latest generation ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 2 May 2007, News, Electronic News Digest Southern AfricaAllied Technologies (Altech), has agreed to sell 25% of its Netstar vehicle fleet management firm to black-owned Nariku. A new company named Altech Netstar Fleet Management Services (ANFMS) ...