In today`s technology roundup: Oracle acquires HotSip, Microsoft admits battery drain, and Amazon considers digital music service.
Duxbury Networking, distributor of Proxim products in SA, has released the company`s GigaLink series of duplex point-to-point wireless bridges targeted at "last mile" telecommunications applications.
Mobile number portability will arrive in SA as soon as July, starting a new era of competition in the cellular industry.
Forty percent of the shares in iBurst`s parent company have changed hands, to a local company headed by Alan Knott-Craig Jr.
Motorola and the GSM Association have extended their programme to ship ultra-low-cost handsets to emerging markets for a further six months.
A visiting South Korean government delegation has received a lukewarm reception to its mobile broadband wireless solutions.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers sold more tablet PCs and convertibles in Europe, the Middle East and Africa than any other manufacturer in 2005, it says.
AirDefense Personal 3.0 has been introduced to provide real-time threat detection and automated response for mobile workers. [Local rep: SecureData]
The final hurdle to ubiquitous broadband using WiMax technology has been cleared for most countries, but not SA.
A year after it bought IBM`s PC division, Lenovo will bring a range of products to the South African market by the end of this month.
The company with roots in the 1940s is officially being taken over and delisted from the JSE.
Nashua has rolled out a field service support system based on the i-mate Pocket PC/Mobile Voice platform, says Leaf Wireless, South African distributor of i-mate products.
The Vodacom Group has pledged 1 billion Tanzanian shillings (US$840 336) to assist in relief efforts aimed at alleviating the hunger experienced by many Tanzanians due to the drought in the country.
