A fire is menacing two of the country’s biggest data centre operators. Teraco and Hetzner on Thursday confirmed that the building in which their Cape Town data centres is housed was on fire on Thursday. “We are in contact with the fire department
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MultiChoice-owned Internet service provider MWeb on Monday unveiled its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) prices, which will be available to consumers who have access to Telkom’s nascent home fibre network. The announcement comes on top of MWeb’s plans to work
The Democratic Alliance wants former SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala, who resigned last December, to “pay back the money” she received during her 22-month tenure at the public broadcaster. “A reply to a DA parliamentary question reveals that former SABC chair
Samsung lost the number one spot in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2014, displaced at the top of the pile by Apple, according to new data from Gartner. It’s the first time Samsung has dropped out of the top spot in smartphone sales volumes
A new survey of the technology habits of South Africa’s student community shows that Facebook has become the default social network among students, with 97% of students in tertiary education using the platform. Twitter is second at 67%, followed by
On this week’s ZA Tech Show, the game boys (Deon Du Plessis and Shaun Behnken) join Brett Haggard for a chat about mobile phones, search engines, jetpacks, drones and games (of course). The topics (in order of appearance) on the podcast are the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6
The market has failed to deliver broadband to all South Africans, hence government’s decision to intervene, naming Telkom as the…
MultiChoice has added three new channels to its recently launched DStv Now application for smart devices. The channels are ShortsTV,…
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has called on South Africa’s telecommunications operators to bring down the cost of mobile broadband by introducing wholesale mobile data products that ISPs can resell. “Ispa argues that the absence
Johannesburg residents have been challenged to help solve the city’s problems using technology, and could win a share of R5m in prize money in the process to fund their own start-up businesses if their ideas