Oracle on ‘build and buy' binge

Oracle on ‘build and buy’ binge
Oracle last week concluded its bid for Siebel Systems, adding the customer relationship management (CRM) software company to its string of acquisitions in the past 12 months.

Oracle president Charles Phillips says the strategy of “build and buy” is set to continue.

“We’ll be doing more acquisitions, but they are likely to be relatively small because there are few large companies left to buy,” Phillips told journalists in Cape Town on Saturday.

Thieves hit traffic monitoring pilot

Thieves hit traffic monitoring pilot
Despite being plagued by the theft of its fibre optic infrastructure, the traffic monitoring project between Johannesburg and Pretoria is still on track, says the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral).

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Project manager Alex van Niekerk revealed today that the R28 million project has been hit by thieves several times since the deployment of the fibre optic backbone for 70 closed-circuit television cameras. The cameras are to be installed between the Shell Ultra City, on the N1 freeway, and New Road, in Midrand, on the South-bound side of the N1.

Vodafone and Sony team up for cellphone music

IOL: Vodafone and Sony team up for cellphone music

Vodafone Group is to launch a new music service that will allow customers to access music in tune with their tastes using cellphones, as the mobile giant looks to grow revenues from areas other than phone calls.

The world’s biggest cellphone company by sales said on Monday it had joined hands with Sony NetServices for the Vodafone Radio DJ service that will offer personalised radio channels streamed to customers’ third generation (3G) cellphones and computers.

Jeez, a phone is a phone, not a flipping hifi