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Vodacom has announced kill off its social networking play The Grid by 1 December.The location-based social network, which in 2010 had around two million members in South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania, was accessible by mobile users around the world.The Grid, which was formed in 2007 alongside instant messaging ...

Vodacom CEO and über geek Pieter Uys will step down as head of the African mobile giant in 2013.Uys will be replaced by current Vodafone Spain chief Shameel Joosub, who was previously the managing director of Vodacom's South African division."On behalf of the board, I would like to ...

A price war has erupted among South Africa’s mobile operators, as each seeks to increase its slice of the pie in a country where there are nearly as many active SIM cards as there are people.The country’s third mobile operator Cell C recently slashed its data prices, halving them ...

It’s not often that a geek rises to the top of a multi-billion dollar company. These are spots frequently filled by accountants or lawyers. But times are changing. In a technology-driven world, the geeks are rising to the top.We know Microsoft was run by a geek (possibly the geekiest CEO ...

Gmail users in South Africa are reporting that they can now send free SMSes from Google chat.The reports are coming through even though South Africa is not listed among the countries supported by the service, which has been around since 2008.At present, however, the service only allows you ...

Apps are the future. We all know that. Some even believe a new “app economy” may replace the web itself.But what about the app stores, the places we go to buy the apps? The Android Market and Apple's App Store have hundreds of thousands of apps. Even smaller stores like ...

Apps are important. Hell we think they're the future of the internet. It seems Vodacom is increasingly recognising their importance too.The mobile operator has announced the winners of its App Star Challenge -- a competition aimed at providing developers with the opportunity to develop apps designed specifically for the ...

The news is not good, and in fact has not been good for a while. South Africa’s largest telecommunications provider, Telkom, is in trouble. Of that there is no doubt. The depth of this trouble is what should concern us all. The billion dollar question is whether or not Telkom ...

It’s "all Android, all the time". That's what they’ll tell you. It's "totally blowing away the competition".According to Gartner, Google's pet project (which as we all know, doesn't generate any meaningful revenue) Android now commands 52.5% of the global smartphone market. Huh?Where are all these Android phones?On the face ...

Deep Fried Man is a well-known local comedian. He tells his story about how he used Twitter to get some customer satisfaction.This is the story of my battle to use social media to solve the problems I had with my internet contract. You could call it a David and Goliath ...