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UniForum SA, trading as the ZA Central Registry (ZACR), has proposed a shake-up to the popular .co.za domain space, including a 50% increase in annual fees payable by domain registrants. It’s also proposed that those who don’t pay their annual renewal fees within 60 days of them

Former Nashua ECN CEO John Holdsworth said on Monday that he would appeal against a judgment in the high court in Pretoria that found he had breached his restraint of trade and actively solicited employees and customers of his former employer in launching his new company, AppChat. On Friday, high court

Nedbank has finally launched its mobile banking application, although only on Android-powered smartphones for now. The app, known as the Nedbank App Suite, has been available to the bank’s staff since the end of June and can now be downloaded from Google’s Play Store. The Nedbank App Suite includes online

The labour court in Johannesburg this week heard testimony of multimillion-rand corruption at cellphone company MTN, according to a report on Sunday. The case revolves around an allegation by former MTN legal adviser Violet Magagane-Malao that the company was sweeping her claims of corruption under the carpet

AppChat founder and former Nashua ECN CEO John Holdsworth has lost a high court battle with ECN parent, the JSE-listed Reunert group. Judge Selby Baqwa found that Holdsworth breached his restraint of trade and actively solicited employees and customers of ECN in launching AppChat. In the 22-page judgment

After cabinet scuppered Telkom’s plan to sell 20% of its equity to Korea’s KT Corp, it tasked communications minister Dina Pule with reporting back to it within three months about the options available to the partly state-owned company. If she’s going to meet cabinet’s deadline, Pule must report back to cabinet

Fixed-line operator Telkom on Friday kicked off a six-week-long upgrade programme that will result in the speeds it offers to users of its broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) services being increased. From Friday, customers with the company’s 1Mbit/s DSL service will have their line speeds automatically upgraded to 2Mbit/s. However

Revelations that electricity from Eskom’s Medupi power station could come in at an estimated 97c/kWh suggest SA could have got better value from renewable technologies such as wind. The power utility told parliamentarians that finance charges on its new power stations would be an estimated R25bn for Medupi in Limpopo

In a not entirely unexpected move, Microsoft on Thursday unveiled its new corporate clothing with the first update to its logo in 25 years. The overhaul comes just as the US software maker is gearing up for one of the biggest product release cycles in its history, including new versions of Windows and Office. “It’s been 25

Cape Town-based Facebook payments facilitator ZunguZ is expanding its offering to include debit cards, allowing its users to make purchases anywhere Visa cards are accepted. The Facebook-branded cards will be free to users and will be made available within the next six months. Launched last year, ZunguZ