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MWeb Business has cut uncapped broadband asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) prices, lowering the cost of 10Mbit/s uncapped and unshaped bandwidth by R500/month to R2 999 and reducing the price of its 1Mbit/s service to R759. Both products exclude Telkom line rental charges. At the same time
A fresh row may be brewing over banking clients sharing their Internet banking details with online personal financial management (PFM) sites after Nedbank on Thursday announced it was launching its own PFM product in which it will allow
Local video company Zoopy, which is now wholly owned by Vodacom, has lost its founders, CEO Jason Elk and operations director Pat Elk. Zoopy was founded in 2007 as local and mobile competitor of sorts to YouTube. At launch, the service allowed users to upload and share video content, images, podcasts and blogs, but is now more
South Africans should expect more power cuts, as the distribution grid will gradually collapse from 2015 unless a maintenance backlog is addressed, an expert said on Thursday. “We are three years away from collapse,” Deon Louw, the deputy director of electro-technical services in Overstrand municipality
Criticism in the US media about the state of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is “one-sided” and “one-dimensional” as the company continues to do well in many emerging markets, including SA, Indonesia and Mexico. That’s the view of Alexandra Zagury, newly appointed Research in
Retail chip-and-PIN devices can easily be attacked, exposing banks, retailers and consumers to serious fraud around the world, a British security company has claimed at the Black Hat Security Conference taking place in Las Vegas in the US this week. Researchers
Altron subsidiary Bytes Technology Group has acquired Alliance Business Solutions, an Oracle software specialist, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition has been done through Bytes Systems Integration. The rationale for the deal
SA consumers are becoming more confident about transacting and banking using mobile devices. This applies both to users of high-end devices and entry- to mid-tier devices, new research from World Wide Worx shows. As anticipated, the Mobility report, released
Government plans to establish a Broadband Inter-Governmental Implementation Committee to oversee and coordinate SA’s national broadband strategy and implementation. Government has said it wants to achieve universal broadband access in SA by 2020. The proposed committee will be tasked
Samsung Electronics SA has appointed Matthew Thackrah to the newly created position of deputy MD, just weeks after the sudden resignation of MD Deon Liebenberg, who left the Korean consumer electronics giant to take the reins at Telkom Business Mobile. Thackrah, who has
