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If you’d invested R40 000 in the shares of Durban-based technology company Adapt IT five years ago, you’d be a millionaire today. Adapt IT’s shares have risen by a spectacular 2 400% in the past five years, making it the best performing technology counter on the JSE
MultiChoice has announced annual price hikes for its various DStv bouquets. The top-end DStv Premium bouquet will rise by 5,1% to R699/month, from R665/month previously, with the “access” fee for personal video recorder owners rising by R5 to R80/month, an
Roads agency Sanral on Thursday welcomed Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s endorsement of the e-tolling system in Gauteng. Delivering his budget speech in parliament on Wednesday, Nene said the toll tariffs would be adjusted downwards, but government
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has called on South Africa’s telecommunications operators to bring down the cost of mobile broadband by introducing wholesale mobile data products that ISPs can resell. “Ispa argues that the absence
Johannesburg residents have been challenged to help solve the city’s problems using technology, and could win a share of R5m in prize money in the process to fund their own start-up businesses if their ideas
South Africa may have to wait until 2017 to complete its migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television, missing the mid-2015 deadline government agreed to with the International Telecommunication
The State IT Agency will later this week issue the first phase of a multibillion-rand, three-year tender for the supply of computer equipment to the whole of government. At the same time, the agency
Telkom “trusts” that the Financial Services Board and the JSE will “respond as necessary” in the wake of an allegation by Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Tuesday that “those on the inside track” about government’s plan to name the company as its “lead
Flaws and security lapses within South Africa’s government and intelligence services have left secrets exposed to foreign spies at every level, according to leaked documents released by Al-Jazeera. The documents claimed that a secret security assessment by South African intelligence
Former “Mossad spies” threatened a cyber attack on South Africa, demanding an end to the Boycott Israel campaign, Al-Jazeera reported. According to leaked documents posted on its website this week a group claiming to be former agents of Israel’s
