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Two men lost a battle against Internet service provider MWeb after claiming the company was misleading customers with its “uncapped ADSL” offering, the Advertising Standards Authority said this week. According to the ASA’s ruling on the matter

Business Day Television (BDTV) and CNBC Africa have become embroiled in a dispute over alleged plagiarism after the former broadcaster, formerly known as Summit TV, accused its competitor of copying a series of messages posted on Twitter during yesterday’s midterm budget speech by finance

The South African market has continued to be “challenging” for MTN as a result of what the telecommunications group calls “regulatory and competitive actions”. In a quarterly update for the three months ended 30 September, the group’s CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa, says subscriber growth was

Home affairs minister Naledi Pandor and finance minister Pravin Gordhan will decide whether to waive the fee for new smart ID cards, the home affairs department said on Thursday. “As [Pandor] has indicated in parliament, she is in discussion with national treasury regarding fees for certain

Minister in the presidency and National Planning Commission head Trevor Manuel has warned that South Africa is falling behind in information technology and has issued a challenge to the industry to turn the situation around. Manuel was speaking at the State IT Agency’s

Businesses need to focus on the threat posed by cybercrime, a law firm said on Wednesday. “If I was speaking to you two years ago, the bulk of my practice was procurement fraud, and things like business hijackings, financial statement fraud and the like,” Dave Loxton, the head of business crime

MWeb has moved to appoint a new head of its business division. Debbie Pretorius has been named as the new GM for MWeb Business, the Internet service provider said on Wednesday. Pretorius replaces Andre Joubert, who reportedly left in August to join telecommunications

Cybercrime is a national crisis costing the country R1bn/year, a law firm said on Wednesday. The US Federal Bureau of Communications listed South Africa as the sixth most active country where cybercrime took place. Informal consensus within the private

BlackBerry appears to have scored a hit among Android and iPhone users with its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application. According to the company, the long-delayed app has been downloaded more than 10m times in just 24 hours after release on the two platforms

The problems South Africa faces require specialised technologies to help resolve them, public service minister Lindiwe Sisulu said in Cape Town on Tuesday. “In present day South Africa, we have challenges that require specific, and not generalised, off-the-shelf interventions to resolve, and so you fail