Telkom on Thursday confirmed that almost 2 400 employees’ applications for voluntary severance and early retirement packages have been accepted by the telecommunications operator. Most of these employees will leave Telkom today, Friday. A total of 2 393 people
Project Isizwe, the non-profit responsible for building a free Wi-Fi network in greater Pretoria, has established its first hotspots in the Western Cape, it said on Friday. Commuters at the busy Gugulethu and Khayelitsha taxi ranks near Cape Town will
The number of mobile subscriptions worldwide has topped 7bn for the first time, according to new data from telecommunications research firm TeleGeography. There are now 7,1bn mobile subscriptions globally, according to TeleGeography. Perhaps
Medscheme has announced plans to roll out an electronic medical records (EMR) platform that will be made available to all health scheme administrators that fall under it. An EMR is a digital version of the traditional paper-based medical record for a patient
One of the largest LAN party videogame conventions, Quakecon returns for its 19th meet since 1996, with more than 9 000 people attending to “frag” each other playing the renowned first-person shooter. Recently, an estimated 130 000 fans attended Comic-Con in
Private education group Curro claims it is still keen to pursue an acquisition of rival Advtech, and has revealed how much it may be prepared to pay for the company. This comes a day after Advtech’s board rejected Curro’s advances after spending a
Telkom has introduced new smartphone plans that bring aggressive new voice and data pricing to consumers. The new plans start at R50, which includes 150 minutes of voice and 150MB of data, and go up to R300 for 900 minutes of voice and 900MB of data
MWeb Business client services are “now fully restored and operational”, parent Internet Solutions said on Tuesday after a “systems provisioning error” led to a major problem in the company’s virtual hosting environment at the weekend. Clients reportedly lost data
Samsung Electronics is warning that some television manufacturers are passing off 4K-resolution ultra-high-definition (UHD) TVs as the real thing when…
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has admitted in parliament that the South Africa Post Office owes almost R245m to more than 2 000 suppliers and is in arrears of over
