Microsoft is officially launching itself into the smartphone hardware business. The US software company has made a E5,4bn cash offer to buy Nokia’s device and services business, to license the company’s patents and to use Nokia’s mapping services
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Telkom’s general executive for regulatory affairs has resigned. Staff were informed on Monday that Andrew Barendse was leaving the telecommunications group. Barendse’s resignation comes just weeks after TechCentral revealed that newly appointed Telkom group CEO Sipho Maseko
Internet service providers (ISPs) and their customers can look forward to reduced broadband data prices in coming months because Telkom is set to reduce its IP Connect (IPC) fees by 8% next month, the first of three reductions that form part of the terms of the settlement reached between
Communications minister Yunus Carrim wants government’s policy on radio frequency spectrum finalised by March next year, despite officials from the department of communications telling him that this timeline is unrealistic and unachievable. “With regards
A former ANN7 editor has claimed assurances were given to president Jacob Zuma that the news channel would be pro-ANC, the City Press reported. “There was a lot of interference on an editorial level by Mr Atul Gupta,” former ANN7 editor Rajesh Sundaram told the newspaper
The Hawks suspect that a 54-member cybercrime syndicate due back in court shortly could have international links, City Press reported on Sunday. “It is big, very big and we suspect that they have links to other crime families operating in other countries,” Hawks investigator Oscar Mopedi told the newspaper
Free software advocate Richard Stallman has told an audience in Johannesburg that South Africans should put pressure on government to scrap the electronic tolling of South African roads because the surveillance inherent in the system is a threat to their freedom
Link Africa, the fibre communications company previously known as i3 Africa, has scaled back its business, closing its Johannesburg office and ending its plans, at least for now, to build fibre-to-the-home infrastructure in South Africa’s big cities. TechCentral has learnt that 15 managers
The labour court on Friday dismissed with costs the urgent application brought by MTN South Africa’s chief corporate services officer, Robert Madzonga, to have his suspension lifted. Madzonga was suspended after MTN began an internal investigation into allegations
Telkom paid the controversial former MD of its international operations and subsidiaries, Motlatsi Nzeku, a R13m “retirement settlement” to leave the telecommunications operator. The figure is contained in Telkom’s 2013 annual report