Author: Duncan McLeod

Internet Solutions-owned Wi-Fi hotspot provider AlwaysOn has taken an axe to its prices, albeit on a promotional basis, cutting the price of access to just R29/month for 10GB of data. Though the promotion ends on 31 January 2015, anyone signing up for the promotional deal will get the low price for a year

Afrihost is likely to end its popular double data promotion for fixed and mobile broadband, but has decided to launch a new subscription service called Afrihost Plus+ that will give its users access to streaming music and guaranteed access to double data. At the same time, the company, which recently sold

South African-born founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors Elon Musk will receive honorary membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015, becoming the second person from South Africa to receive the

Despite the introduction of Europay, MasterCard and Visa chip cards by South Africa’s banks, fraudsters continue to clone the cards to use them in countries that haven’t implemented the EMV standard for card payments. Until the banks stop

The banking industry’s gross fraud losses due to South African-issued credit card fraud has soared in 2014. In the first nine months of the year, losses have accelerated to R453,9m, from R366m in the same period a year ago. The biggest contributor

Tencent continues to underpin the Naspers growth story, with the Chinese company contributing a stronger-than-expected R6,2bn to the JSE-listed group’s core headline earnings in the six months to end-September 2014. Indeed, the Internet segment remains the fastest growing part of the Naspers stable and

Financially distressed technology services company Gijima has appointed Bill Hoggarth, who was named as its chief sales officer in May, to its board of directors. Gijima, which is currently seeking to raise R100m from shareholders through a new rights offer, says Hoggarth’s appointment as an executive

Makro announced last week that it had entered into a partnership with Sasol to build e-commerce “lockers” on the fuel retailer’s forecourts. The lockers are not a new idea, having been pioneered in the US, UK and elsewhere by retailers such as Amazon and the Walmart-owned Asda, but it is

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another episode of TalkCentral, TechCentral’s weekly podcast. This week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss Telkom’s interim financial results, looking specifically at the sharp decline

Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications has written a memorandum to the speaker of the national assembly asking for the immediate suspension of SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala. “This follows a second unanimous agreement among committee members that Tshabalala be suspended