BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based company that develops the popular peer-to-peer Internet file transfer protocol of the same name, should not be blamed for online piracy, despite the fact that its technology is used extensively by consumers to share copyrighted material digitally. In an interview with TechCentral, the
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JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec raked in US$5bn in revenue in its 2012 financial year, which ended on 29 February, despite what it calls “challening conditions” in North America and Europe. For the financial year, the group expects revenues of about $5bn, from $4,3bn in 2011, and profit
Imagine you’re the CEO of an Internet security start-up. Now imagine one of the world’s most notorious hacker groups signs up for your service, to help protect their own website from attacks. What do you do? That’s exactly the dilemma Matthew Prince, CEO and founder of CloudFlare, faced in June 2011. LulzSec — short for Lulz Security — was
Vodacom incurred the wrath of consumers last year when it said it planned to throttle the data speeds of BlackBerry subscribers who used more than 100MB/month after some users were found to be downloading 100GB or more a month. Now, Vodacom
The lack of fibre-optic transmission networks outside SA’s main urban centres could prove a huge stumbling block to rolling out next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) networks in rural areas and add significant costs for operators wanting to meet roll-out obligations for these networks. Richard Morse, group technology executive
JSE-listed technology group EOH has continued its strong growth momentum in the six months to end-January, adding 44,1% in sales to more than R1,6bn and lifting profit by 51,5% to R106,5m. It now has almost R400m in cash on its balance sheet. The growth was both organic and from acquisitions
From 1 September this year, all motor vehicles registered for the first time will need to be fitted with microdots that comply with the requirements of the National Road Traffic Act. Microdots are tiny metallic discs that have a unique code inscribed in them and can be read using a microscope. Furthermore, all motor vehicles
MTN SA has told the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) that a second digital migration may be necessary once the move from analogue to digital television broadcasting has been completed because of the fragmentation of the spectrum that will be freed up when analogue signals are turned off
SA price comparison site PriceCheck has launched a barcode scanning application that allows consumers to compare product prices between PriceCheck’s vendors using mobile devices. The application is available in the Android and Samsung app stores. The front-end of the application was developed by software solutions company DVT
You may not have heard of Barry Diller or IAC, the sprawling conglomerate he founded, but you’ve definitely heard of the brands he owns. From Vimeo to Expedia to The Daily Beast to Match.com, IAC has fingers in all of the Web’s biggest markets. So when Diller