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Richard Hurst

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Name: Richard Hurst

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Cheaper telecoms on back burner

Lowering the cost of communications in SA is not high on the DOC’s priorities list. Communications minister Dina Pule has renewed her department’s promise to step in and do something about SA’s costly communications and operators’ lack of transparency, ... [Published IT Web - May 23 2013]

Entities: Richard Hurst, Telecommunication, The D.O.C., Broadband

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Vodacom Group Ltd

Vodacom needs Africa

Vodacom wants to make two or three acquisitions in Africa in the next two to three years. JSE-listed Vodacom needs to expand in Africa to boost growth rates, and is actively on the hunt for a deal, with plans to make two or three acquisitions in the next ... [Published IT Web - May 21 2013]

Entities: Vodacom Group Ltd, Irnest Kaplan, Richard Hurst

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Braxon Bigot

, in Muldrow. He was the pastor of Muldrow Eastside Holiness Church and a builder.Funeral will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Assembly of God in Muldrow with burial at Memory Garden Cemetery in Muldrow under the direction of Mallory Martin Funeral Home in ... [Published Southwest Times Record - May 18 2013]

Entities: James SPALDING, Richard Hurst, Athens

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Battle for instant-messaging market looms

THE battle for the instant-messaging market is looming following BlackBerry’s decision to extend its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to other mobile operating platforms.This move, which analysts say was inevitable, could see the group widen consumer ... [Published BDlive - May 16 2013]

Entities: BlackBerry, Arthur Goldstuck, Short Message Service (Telecom), Ovum Plc

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Stoke Denied First Win Despite Morris Heroics (NN12)

Stoke Bruerne Cricket Club batsman ponder the wicketWellingborough Old Grammarians vs Stoke Bruerne CCStoke Bruerne fell two wickets shy of their first league victory in Division Four as the home side Wellingborough shut up shop to finish on 118-8 having ... [Published AboutMyArea - May 06 2013]

Entities: Luke Adams, Richard Hurst, Alex Holmes

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

BlackBerry Z10 tops expectations

BlackBerry’s "Hail Mary pass" is represented by its first two 10 OS devices – the Z10 and Q10.The South AfricanThis comes just under two months after the Z10 – the company’s flagship deviceReports that emerged towards the end of last week painted the ... [Published IT Web - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: BlackBerry, Arthur Goldstuck, BlackBerry Z10

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Telkom strike looms

Some 18 000 Telkom workers will down tools if a dispute over salary discrepancies is not resolved in June.It is inevitable that 18 000 of Telkom’s 21 000-strong workforce will down tools over a disputed four-year-old agreement to address salary discrepancies, ... [Published IT Web - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Richard Hurst, Workers, Ovum Plc

First reported Mar 04 2013 - Updated Mar 04 2013 - 1 reports

Bluestone 42: The Hurt Locker meets Miranda in military comedy set in Afghanistan

It's one of the more unlikely-sounding sitcom ideas of recent times. The original pitch for Bluestone 42, BBC3's new comedy, might have been: "The Hurt Locker meets Miranda." This new eight-part series is a comedy about a British Army bomb disposal unit ... [Published The Independent - Mar 04 2013]

Entities: Richard Hurst, The Hurt Locker, Military/Armed Forces, Afghanistan

Quotes

"operators will also move to greater bundling of products, offering a package value versus cost. retail prices are not only based on input costs, but also on the value or perceived value by the user for the money spent, and if the users perceive value, they will be happy to pay the price." Ovum analyst Richard Hurst says the challenges hanging over Pule and the DOC may stifle the possibility of any meaningful resolution on telecoms prices...

Cheaper telecoms on back burner [Published IT Web - May 23 2013]

Mr Hurst says BlackBerry’s decision to expand BBM is a "positive sign for whatsapp; it means that they have been on the right track all along" . However, as this space becomes more competitive WhatsApp will have to enhance its products and offerings attempting to gain more users and create a...

Battle for instant-messaging market looms [Published BDlive - May 16 2013]