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The Web, with all its hazards, is the new playground for children, a Google SA official said on Wednesday. “Like in any playground, you don’t abandon your children, but supervise and check how they are playing there,” the search engine’s public manager, Fortune Sibanda, told a conference on child abuse in

Mobile operator Cell C is in talks with Vodacom about renegotiating the 15-year roaming agreement the two companies signed in 2001. Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig says the discussions with Vodacom “are going in the right direction”, but he says he

Cable theft has once again disrupted Telkom services, this time in the Kyalami area north of Johannesburg. The company says services to thousands of mainly business customers have been disrupted as a result of thieves. The fixed-line operator says it is working to restore services to clients in the area

Third mobile operator Cell C plans to build a new, 50 000sq m campus north of Sandton to integrate its disparate offices, which are located across Johannesburg, from Parktown to Sandton. The new facility, which will house Cell C’s head

Nedbank launched its mobile banking application, called the Nedbank App Suite, to its staff on Monday. The bank says it will be available to the public from the beginning of August. The app has taken two years to develop and is only the third in the

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) is pressing communications minister Dina Pule to finalise her policy directions on high-demand radio frequency spectrum, including the “digital dividend” band that will be freed up when SA’s broadcasters move from analogue to digital terrestrial television

The man who helped pioneer media giant Naspers’s online expansion, Antonie Roux, passed away in a hospital in Germany in Sunday after undergoing surgery. He was 54. Roux, who was a former CEO of Internet service provider MWeb, joined the Naspers group as a junior technician in 1979 and was a founding member of pay-TV

Several people were to appear in court on Monday for allegedly trying to make a pirate copy of Leon Schuster’s new movie, according to a report on Monday.

“These guys are murderers — they’re killing our film industry,” Schuster told The Star newspaper. He said there had already been several

Telkom Business is cutting the cost of its uncapped fixed-line broadband products by up to 27% on high-end packages. Customers on slower connections are having their line speeds increased. Customers on 384kbit/s and 1Mbit/s uncapped Internet packages will be upgraded to 1Mbit/s and 2Mbit/s

Cell C has become SA’s second operator to cut BlackBerry prices in a week. The company on Friday said it was introducing new tariff plans for BlackBerry users starting at R27/month. Its first new tariff plan, the BlackBerry Social Plan, offers Cell C customers access to Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), one