Vodacom has defended its decision to throttle the download speeds of BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) users who download more than 100MB/month, saying some users were exceeding 100GB of data in a 30-day period using BlackBerry smartphones. The company says
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The Universal Service and Access Fund was established to bankroll projects that ensure universal access to communications technology for all SA citizens. Instead, a large part of it — if not all of it — is being earmarked for keeping the public watching television
Vodacom plans to throttle the connection speeds of the heaviest users of the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), which offers unlimited on-device browsing and e-mail access on BlackBerry smartphones. BIS has proved popular in the SA market, especially among youngsters
Just about every computer and phone manufacturer now makes tablets in the hope of grabbing some of the scraps of market share Apple doesn’t hold with the iPad. Acer has a couple of tablet offerings, but its headline act is the Iconia Tab A500, a 10,1-inch Android-powered
EOH, the technology services company listed on the JSE, has turned in stellar results for the 12 months to 31 July, lifting profit by 51,8% to R148,4m from R97,8m a year ago on the back of a healthy 43,5% increase in revenue to R2,4bn. The company has increased its dividend
Communications minister Roy Padayachie has provided a little more clarity on government’s thinking about digital terrestrial television and what it would like to see happening once broadcasters switch off their analogue signals freeing up
Citizen Kane has enthralled and frustrated critics, filmmakers and audiences ever since its premiere in May 1941, writes Lance Harris. The hard-to-please Pauline Kael — perhaps the most influential American film critic of the 20th century – called
It’s a bit of a daft argument for a largely online journalist to make, you might say. Why would I fly my flag under a banner which we are supposed to treat with scorn and derision, akin to the helium dirigibles of yore? Such is the hubris of online. All that talk of disrupting old models
French telecommunications giant Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, is in talks to buy SA IT service company Business Connexion (BCX), three separate industry sources have told TechCentral. Neither company is commenting, but it raises
Is French telecommunications giant Orange, the mobile subsidiary of France Telecom, buying JSE-listed IT services company Business Connexion (BCX)? Three separate industry sources, none of whom is employed by either company, have told TechCentral they understand