Government has mooted a change to legislation to allow the SA Police Service to get access, through the courts, to the records of people using Research in Motion’s popular BlackBerry communications service. Deputy communications minister
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Imagine a cellular base station that could fit in your pocket, or be installed on a lamppost or a bench in a street with poor reception? It may sound far-fetched, but it’s not. Despite its diminutive proportions, the Lightradio Cube, developed by Bell Labs in Germany, is said to have
The International Institute of Communications’ annual telecommunications conference takes place in Johannesburg in a month’s time and this year’s event is crammed full of high-level speakers from business, government and regulatory agencies. The event, for which
Matthew Fraser, a British-Canadian former journalist and now self-styled Web 2.0 strategist and new media expert, says that the world is living in a “reset economy” where the Internet and social media are “redefining how we manage people
Telkom has launched its first mobile offerings aimed at the business market and is taking the fight to its rivals with aggressive introductory offers on smartphones and tablets. Telkom Business Mobile – the brand the company is using
Concerns over information security are the biggest barrier to businesses moving to online cloud-based computing services, says Kgomotso Kganyago, chief security advisor at Microsoft SA. As companies move to seamless computing
SA’s mobile operators must do more to up their game in customer service instead of simply trying to outdo each other on price, says Vitorrio Massone, managing partner in SA at management consulting firm Bain & Company. In the past year, the operators have slashed their
Cellular network operator Vodacom is offering voice bundles for international calls from 5 September and extending its “Super Saver” and “Vodafone Passport” products, which are designed to bring down the cost of international roaming, to cover more countries. Roaming costs are
The SA Revenue Service (Sars) earlier this week inadvertently sent 20 000 taxpayers’ e-mail addresses to other taxpayers. The 20 000 addresses in question were the intended recipients of the Sars e-mail. Realising the error, Sars sent a follow-up e-mail apologising to
Companies have been urged to protect their trademarks online following the decision earlier this year by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to introduce a new top-level Internet domain for the adult entertainment industry. Mike du Toit