JOHANNESBURG, S.AFRICA: South Africa’s Telkom said its chief financial officer would resign in October, increasing concern concerning the troubled fixed-line operator’s future and sending its shares tumbling again than 3 per cent.
Telkom, whose chief executive, Ruben September, stepped from the top to the bottom of earlier than planned last week, is struggling to craft a [...]
S.Africa’’s Telkom CFO to leave, shares tumble
Research Highlights iPhone 4 Antenna Woes
Consumers who bought each iPhone 4 have been in various stages of revolt amid the ongoing troubles through the device’s antenna. The problem, specifically, sees the iPhone fail to obtain signal strength when held a certain way, a condition lovelessly dubbed the “dying grip.”
Defending his product, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the iPhone’s [...]
Socket scanner made Blackberry compatible
NEWARK, USA: Socket Mobile, Inc., a provider of sensitive productivity solutions, has announced expanded compatibility of the Socket Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner (CHS) Series 7 through BlackBerry smartphones including the Bold, Curve, Pearl, Storm and Tour.
According to a bear heavily release, the CHS Series 7 brings industrial-class barcode scanning into a lightweight, suffer-sized form [...]
Say What? The Week’s Top Five IT Quotes
“The slate came used up of a research effort that’s been going on at HP in opposition to many years. This is not just something we’re jamming in from each Asian manufacturer.”
Phil McKinney, CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group, discussing HP’s forthcoming slate or small table computer. McKinney said HP intends to use Microsoft’s Windows [...]
UAT to expand wafer capacity
SAN JOSE: Unisem Advanced Technologies (UAT) has announced plans to spread out its wafer bumping capacity at its factory in Ipoh, Malaysia. UAT, which is a joint venture of Unisem, FlipChip International and AdvanPack Solutions, is a hew packing and test facility.
According to details released in the declaration, the floor space at the Malaysian bumping [...]
Aruba Taps Cloud to Secure Black Hat Wi-Fi
At the Black Hat warranty conference, wireless networks are under constant peril from the various the sundry hackers, researchers and pranksters who converge on the conference each year.
Aruba is using its blur-based security system and a mesh networking configuration that provides with a view to more efficient backhaul. The biggest challenge at Black Hat isn’t [...]
The risks of selling off the 800MHz radio spectrum at the wrong price
This month the rule dropped a bombshell.
Minister for communications Ed Vaizey and culture, media and merriment secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that the national rollout of next-progeny broadband would be delayed by three years.
It was originally planned with respect to 2012 but is being put back to 2015.
The 2012 deadline because of the delivery of an [...]
Local councils to provide more location-based services
Local councils are increasing the compute of public-facing services with access to geospatial data, according to recently made known research by Pitney Bowes Business Insight.
The business software provider claims that through the whole extent of the next six months, local authorities in the UK expect to afford more location-based services to the public.
The research suggests [...]
Financial IT job market recovery continues
First-place growth in the financial services sector of the IT job market continued into the second quarter, according to the latest Financial Services IT hiring integral part from recruiter McGregor Boyall.
The index tracks the number of vacancies current from a range of 16 financial markets organisations. "While our ultimate report showed a sharp increase in [...]
Microsoft signs anti-hacking licence
Microsoft has teamed up through an encryption company to help prevent modern hacking attacks.
Cryptography meeting of friends Cryptography Research has announced a licence agreement with Microsoft to traverse Differential Power Analysis (DPA) hacking.
DPA is a type of hacking that involves monitoring the fluctuating electrical prerogative consumption of a device while it is being used.
For [...]