The Seacom cable network, which was damaged last month, was fully repaired over the weekend and all circuits have been restored. The subsea cable was cut in the Mediterranean Sea in March, along with other cable systems. It’s suspected the break was caused by a ship dragging its anchor. “Our
Author: Craig Wilson
The public protector may table its report into allegations of corruption and nepotism against communications minister Dina Pule as early as next week. The report was meant to be released at the end of March but was delayed. Pule is accused of allowing her alleged boyfriend
The Sunday Times has hit back hard at communications minister Dina Pule, who on Monday accused three of the newspaper’s top investigative journalists of running a smear campaign against her. Sunday Times editor Phylicia Oppelt has rubbished accusations, made by Pule at a press
Communications minister Dina Pule has levelled sensational allegations against three of South Africa’s top investigative journalists, but has failed to provide evidence to back up her claims, including that one of the journalists, Mzilikazi wa Afrika, attempted to blackmail her. Pule told
TopTV parent On Digital Media is turning to China in an effort to stave off business failure. The proposed deal will result in China’s StarTimes taking a 20% stake in the business, the maximum foreign shareholding allowed for South African broadcasters. The troubled operator
With Samsung and Apple dominant in the smartphone wars, Japan’s Sony has had to battle for the Android scraps with companies like HTC. With the Xperia Z, however, the company has done a superb job of catching up with the frontrunners and, in certain respects, even overtaking them. Unveiled
South Africans can expect the launch of three new city domains, .joburg, .capetown and .durban, before the end of the year. TechCentral first reported on the new city domains in 2012. It appears likely that the .africa domain, which was contested by a Mauritius-based company, will be available at the same time as the new city domains. The new domains are
A thick Australian accent belies the fact that digital agency Quirk’s CEO, 37-year-old Justin Spratt, is a South African and African at heart. “I f***ing love this place,” he says colourfully when I meet with him at the company’s Sandton offices. “I’m exceptionally passionate about Africa in general,” he quickly adds
Parliament’s joint committee on ethics and members’ interests has more than 2 000 pages of evidence against communications minister Dina Pule, The Star Africa Edition reported on Wednesday. Pule and her alleged boyfriend, Phosane Mngqibisa, are accused of appointing
Two gigabits per second! That’s more than 50 times faster than the very fastest digital subscriber line service available from Telkom, which tops out at 40Mbit/s. Yet a Sony-backed Internet service provider in Japan, So-net Entertainment, is offering 2Gbit/s access in around Tokyo. Upload speeds