Tech4Africa turns three this year. Once again, TechCentral is media partner to SA’s premier mobile, Web and emerging technology event. This year’s event will be held on Wednesday, 31 October and Thursday, 1 November at The Indaba Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg under the theme, “Unlocking the
Gadget junkies David Greenway and Steven Ambrose join Sam Beckbessinger in studio this week to discuss the new Kindles and how Amazon owns the Internet, BlackBerry’s new super-cheap data plans, the new Lumias, the new Galaxy Note, and much more besides
The podcast crew is drinking beer and using stage microphones on the show again this week as Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Guy Taylor discuss Amazon’s new Kindles, Nokia’s coming smartphones, migrating between mobile ecosystems, Windows 8 and hacking Android
Cold calls, spam e-mails and unsolicited telephone offers could soon be a thing of the past if the Protection of Personal Information Bill becomes law. Introducing debate on the bill in the national assembly on Tuesday, justice minister Jeff Radebe said it protected consumers from the unlawful use of personal information
MTN has dismissed reports that its staff members in Nigeria were killed during attacks on its telecommunications infrastructure. “No MTN staff were killed. We are at a loss as to the source of this highly erroneous information,” spokesman Rich Mkhondo said on Tuesday. He said damage to telecoms facilities
Communications minister Dina Pule and her boyfriend are accused of using sponsors’ funds to buy her luxury gifts, according to a Sunday newspaper report.. Pule and Phosane Mngqibisa have also been on no fewer than 19 overseas trips together, the Sunday Times alleged
Attacks claimed by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram targeting mobile phone towers in recent days have also left 15 people dead and buildings burnt, including two schools, officials said Friday. More than two dozen mobile phone towers for various providers have been destroyed in cities across northern Nigeria this week
A major US lobby group’s shock advertising campaign, alleging that MTN is “profiting from torture” in Iran, has been blocked by local agencies. But it claims that SA advertising companies have refused to erect the billboards because of the influence of the telecommunications giant. United Against Nuclear Iran
A radical Islamist sect that has attacked mosques, churches, schools and government buildings at will in Nigeria appears to have added a new target for its violence: mobile phone towers. Attacks in the last day have damaged more than 30 towers operated by all the major providers in the country, further
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has called on Telkom to allow service providers other than TelkomInternet to participate in its trial to test digital subscriber line (DSL) services of 20Mbit/s and 40Mbit/s. The trial started on 3 September and is scheduled to run until 31 January. Telkom is a wholesale
