South Africa’s major cities are dominated by BlackBerry users, with Apple’s iPhone, Android and other handsets paling in comparison. This is clear from an interactive map released by mapping company Mapbox in conjunction with social media data aggregator GNIP
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On international flights to and from South Africa, as many as 15 mobile phones are left on, despite airlines’ requests for travellers to turn them off. An estimated five handsets on average remain active on domestic flights. This is according to a recent survey of 7 600 South African travellers conducted by online travel agency Travelstart
Thousands of business and residential customers in Randburg, Johannesburg area have been left without fixed-line telephone and broadband services following cable theft in the area. It’s the second time in two weeks that cable theft has disrupted services in this high-density business region
A proposed wind farm has been given the green light by Western Cape environmental authorities, the Cape Times reported on Thursday. The environmental affairs and development planning department reportedly said the farm near Wolseley would not be in conflict with environmental legislation. Sagit Energy Ventures
Gauteng’s department of finance has canned the controversy-ridden Gauteng Online project meant to provide connectivity and computing to the province’s schools. Instead, it has issued a new tender for what it calls “e-learning solutions”, in terms of which suppliers will provide 80 000 tablets to 1 600 schools in the province
Semiconductor giant Intel has chosen Kenya as the first country in Africa that will get an investment boost from its global Software and Services Group (SSG). The investment will include the creation of programmes to help Kenyan software developers. Intel will provide developers with design tools, resources and consulting
Telkom has accused the former MD of its international business unit, Thami Msimango, and well-known businessman Mthunzi Mdwaba of violating South Africa’s anticorruption laws over an agreement involving former subsidiary Multi-Links and JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms. The allegations
The “functional separation” of Telkom’s wholesale and retail divisions, agreed to in a wide-ranging antitrust settlement announced last week, could be a precursor to the structural separation of the two divisions, analysts say. Last week, as part of a R200m settlement reached
There was no “backdoor pipeline” to BlackBerry South Africa’s platform, the company said on Tuesday following reports that the UK government had been monitoring e-mails and phone calls. “While we cannot comment on media reports regarding alleged government surveillance of telecommunications traffic
It seems there is a market for people willing to pay between R50 000 and R159 000 for a phone from luxury brand Vertu. This is a trend that is expected to grow. A case in point is the R69 000 offered on Bidorbuy, no less, for Vertu’s relatively cheap Ascent Red phone. Vertu employee Antonio Ambrosio