http://www.bandwidthblog.com South African and Global internet startup news Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:09:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Office photos feature - Missing Link - specialist presentation firm [gallery] http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/06/15/missing-link/ Naspers, the largest media company in Africa and owner of popular South African portal 24.com, is offering USD 19.3-million for 100% of the Polish Internet portal Bankier.pl. Bankier.pl offers financial news, market analysis and comparison-shopping information of financial products. According to Corporate Information, Bankier.pl derives its profits mostly from on-line advertising and ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/06/11/naspers/ Just announced a few days ago at the WWDC 2009 keynote, Vodacom have announced that the new Apple iPhone 3G S is going to be available in South Africa starting from July (following a US launch on June 19th). Hailed as the "the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet", the new iPhone ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/06/11/south-africa-gets-new-apple-iphone-3g-s-in-july/ Vodacom has exclusively launched the new HTC Magic in South Africa. The handset runs on Google's Android OS and allows users to customize every facet of the phone as per their wishes. It is an open source format where a user can create personal applications, themes and even games. And since ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/06/04/vodacom-launches-htc-magic-in-south-africa/ A consumer review site that aggregates opinions about a large range of devices, TestFreaks recently launched their South Africa website. Developed by Kristofer Arwin, Magnus Wiberg and Martin Alexanderson (founders of PriceRunner.com in 1999), TestFreaks raised $3mn in October 2008 and aims at creating the world's largest product review database. Both ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/05/20/product-comparison-startup-testfreaks-launched-in-south-africa/ Google Squared is the latest product to come out of the Google labs. Supposedly threatened by Wolfram Alpha -- some sort of a new search engine that parses information in their own databases and offer the exact answer to what is being asked (like "how many km from Jozy to ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/05/13/what-is-google-squared-the-next-step-to-search-30/ The print business is not doing so well and Playboy knows it. For the first quarter of 2009 the "Bunny" reported a $13.7 million loss (includes $8.7 million of “impairment and restructuring charges”) and even after last year's layoffs, things are not looking well on their part. And given the ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/05/12/playboy-losing-on-print-raises-prices/ Isn't it always nice to depend on yourself rather than other's people work? Sometimes it is, sometimes it doesn't. But Apple is in the first category. Apparently the Silicon Valley company is looking into building their own "multifunction" mobile chipsets,  a strategy shift that will not only protect their gadgets ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/04/30/apple-to-build-their-own-chipsets/ Integr8 is a leading IT infrastructure supplier with offices across South Africa - today we take a look at their Cape Town office inside the Equinox building in Sea Point. Integr8 has won numerous ICT awards and is South Africa’s largest privately owned national BEE ICT network integration and infrastructure ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/04/29/office-photos-integr8-it/ WeROK is a newly launched Wi-Fi powered mobile portal that allows "low-cost" texting, free mobile email services, free-streamed mobile TV and mobile social network services. Coming to any Wi-Fi enabled Symbian S60 (3rd Editino) mobile phones and PCs, the free to download service is a joint effort by ROK Entertainment ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2009/04/28/wefi-and-rok-to-launch-werok-the-wi-fi-powered-mobile-portal/