Blue Bulls fans will soon be able to tweet from the game or share photos on Facebook without worrying about the cellular network overload so common at full sports stadiums. Vodacom has a deployed a “high-density” Wi-Fi network
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John Nash, mathematician and Nobel laureate in economics, died in a taxi accident on 23 May. He was 86. His wife, Alicia, was with him and also did not survive the crash. The Nashes were on their way home to Princeton from Norway, where John was
The constitutional court has agreed to hear the application for leave to appeal in the nearly decade-long case between telecommunications giant Vodacom and Nkosana Makate, who claims to have invented the service “please call me”. After the high
Standard Bank will be mostly offline this Sunday evening from 10pm as the bank works on its systems, it said on Friday. While customers will be able to make cash withdrawals at ATMs or
It’s an African reunion this week as Brett Haggard is joined by Google’s Michelle Atagana, Larry Madowo from NTV and Techcabal. Over a (sometimes shaky) Skype connection they talk about WhatsApp, Xbox One, the state of women in technology
Telkom has expanded its next-generation LTE-Advanced network to an additional 22 suburbs across South Africa, the telecommunications operator said on Tuesday. Areas that now have coverage are Carlswald, Highveld, Halfway Gardens, Houghton
Telecommunications operator Telkom joined First National Bank in having a blue Monday as technical glitches took both institutions offline. First to go down was FNB, with problems apparently associated with its network causing
Fewer than one in 10 matriculants scored more than 60% for maths or science in last year’s final exams, the National Advisory Council on Innovation (Naci) said on Friday. Azar Jammine, Naci’s project leader for monitoring, evaluation and
MTN is below par when it comes to customer satisfaction, while Telkom’s mobile arm is a leader among mobile operators, new research purports to show. The South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) surveyed more than
The leafy Johannesburg suburbs of Saxonwold and Parkwood are next in line to get fibre to the home (FTTH) from telecommunications start-up Vumatel, it was announced on Thursday. The Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents