The City of Tshwane approved a broadband project that will bind it for 18 years through a build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract to a newly formed company, of which 41% of its shareholding is
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By 2020, mobile data traffic will grow nine-fold in South Africa, according to new research. The 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index mobile forecast predicts that mobile data
MTN South Africa on Thursday experienced widespread downtime, preventing many of its customers from accessing the Internet. The problems started at about 2pm, the mobile operator said
A fire at the Cape Town Film Studios early on Thursday morning destroyed a ship which formed part of the TV series Black Sails. Firefighters responded to the blaze at 12.40am and extinguished it
A former councillor at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has lashed out at South Africa’s Sim card registration legislation, Rica, saying it has severely impacted ordinary
Online business publication Moneyweb’s claim that Fin24 committed “systematic plagiarism on an industrial scale” is extravagant, the high court in Johannesburg has ruled. Judge Daniel Berger on Thursday handed down judgment in
The high court in Johannesburg has found that Fin24 infringed the copyright of one Moneyweb article in 2013, after copying and republishing a substantial part of an original article, and was ordered to pay damages to Moneyweb. Judge
The high court in Johannesburg has struck down allegations by business publication Moneyweb that its rival Fin24 is guilty of copyright infringement. Acting judge Daniel Berger on Thursday
The debate about online privacy versus the battle against crime was given new life this week with an attempt in Brazil to ban the popular messaging application WhatsApp. A well-known and strict judge in a regional area of Brazil issued
Postal services in South Africa risk being disrupted later this week as a union says nationwide strike action is going ahead. The Communication Workers Union last week threatened to strike on 5-6 May to demand higher annual pay rises for South