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BDFM, which publishes Financial Mail and Business Day, has advised its staff that the company is considering retrenchments, Business Report reported on Tuesday. The publisher said on Monday that despite efforts to reduce expenses, BDFM remained in a “very tight trading position and

I used to be one of those people. You know the type. Every time people mentioned how great their digital reader was, I would go on some long rambling explanation about how I don’t get e-readers and prefer the tangible experience of holding a book in my hands. I am no longer that person

UK telecommunications group BT, formerly British Telecom, has launched what it claims is the first ever trial of a 10Gbit/s or “hyper-fast” broadband network in a “live working environment”. Cornwall-based engineering firm Arcol UK Ltd is the test site for deployment of the new technology where

The initial notice of the intention to toll roads in Gauteng by roads agency Sanral was “sterile” and “misleading”, the high court in Pretoria heard on Monday. Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) lawyer Mike Maritz argued that the public was not aware of what Sanral’s Gauteng Freeway

Under ordinary circumstances, Wilmot Prusent only speaks about Eskom to complain. The electricity bill for his five-bedroom home in Summerset Estate, Midrand, has escalated to R2 500 in the average month. “All they ever do is raise our rates, raise our rates,” he grumbled. Recently

This week’s episode sees Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Nicolas Callegari getting together to discuss a mish-mash of productivity, consumer electronics, gaming and all-round geeky fun. Topics include the new version of Evernote, the Nokia Lumia 920, all of

This week, we introduce a shorter, sharper and much punchier podcast in TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson have come up with a show that we hope you’ll find really entertaining. There is a bunch of new things we’re

Vodacom has launched commercial fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) services in parts of Durban and intends to extend the network to Cape Town before the end of the year. The operator has already switched on 4G/LTE, which offers signficiantly improved connection speeds, in parts of

The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), the “worst-performing entity” that reports to the department of communications, plans to spend R1 408/employee on a Christmas function this year, Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn

Telkom’s residential and business customers can now log service faults and track their progress to resolution using a new application designed for Apple’s iPad and for Android devices. The app, which is available in Apple’s App Store and in Google’s Play store, allows users to find the exact location