The next time a call centre agent tells you they got your number from the “national consumer database”, ask to speak to their manager. Aside from the fact that no such list exists, the Protection of Personal Information Act
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Most people across the developed world still get most of their news via television – and traditional news brands, produced by journalists, still top the rankings for the most read news on the Internet. But a growing number of people have stopped turning
A great deal of noise is being made about Twitter’s latest attempts to rescue itself from stagnant user growth, with the board last year recalling the co-founder it fired in 2008, Jack Dorsey, to lead the turnaround. But are the board and investors
This week brought yet more disappointing results for Twitter. The past six months have been turbulent for the social media platform. In its latest round of quarterly results, it reported a net
Some companies are more robust in the face of a consumer downturn than others, and companies that provide vital services are always going to fare better than those that rely on discretionary spend. Software and service provider Adapt IT is proving that
In mid-January, Netflix announced a ban on the use of proxies, unblockers and virtual private networks – all technical workarounds to view movies and TV programmes unavailable in the subscriber’s country. This announcement coincided with the company’s global service
WhatsApp, Skype and other “over the top” services should be regulated in the same way as telecommunications operators, especially as there is a risk that these new competitors will threaten cellphone companies’ ability to invest in their networks. That is the view of
The unthinkable has happened. BlackBerry, which has always developed phones that run its own operating system software, has released its first smartphone running Android. And if the
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has called for a debate on how so-called “over the top” services such as WhatsApp, Skype and Viber should be regulated in light of the risk be believes they
Construction work in Egypt is a key reason behind fibre cuts that have disrupted Internet services in South Africa twice in one week. This is according to Claes Segelberg, who is the chief technical officer of undersea broadband cable provider Seacom