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Africa looks set to get its own generic top-level domain, .africa, in 2013 if the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) gives the go-ahead, which looks likely. The creation of the new domain could set off a gold rush and create headaches for businesses wanting to protect their brands
The value of copper theft in SA increased in January, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Tuesday. The increase coincided with an upturn in the international copper price. Sacci spokesman Nonie Makhanya said the Copper Theft Barometer registered a level of R21,9m in January
Computer maker Dell is “long longer a PC company” but an “IT solutions company”, Brad Anderson, the president of its enterprise solution group said at the launch of its enterprise solutions in London on Monday, Craig Wilson reports. Anderson says the company has made 18 acquisitions since 2008, continues
If SA consumers are ever to enjoy high-speed Internet access delivered over fibre-optic cables into their homes, government will need to assist the telecommunications industry to build the infrastructure and Internet service providers will have to do a better job of educating customers about the potential of
An information and communications technology hub is to be developed at Nasrec in Gauteng, the provincial government said on Monday. Several major international and local investors had committed themselves to the development, which would become an ICT
Internal auditors have blown the whistle on a R72,6m IT contract negotiated by the department of human settlements, claiming that the deal ignored mandatory tender procedures. They also raised a red flag over a perceived conflict of interests — the department’s top IT official was previously employed by the favoured contractor
Standard Bank caused a bit of a furore on Twitter on Thursday when it tweeted that it had lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority over an advertisement competitor First National Bank placed in weekend newspapers. It accused its rival of “misleading advertising”. Although the bank says filing the complaint
Consumers can now purchase applications in the Samsung Apps Store for Android using premium SMS rather than a credit card. The company hopes this will encourage users without credit cards, or those reluctant to use one for application purchases, to use the store. “Until now, the only way to purchase from
A good way to think of the computer industry is to see it as a series of platform wars. When a new computing platform is still young, many different systems fight it out until one or two standards emerge. Data from Asymco, a consultancy, illustrates that this was the case with the personal computer and is now
Telkom should be structurally separated into two businesses, wholesale and retail, to facilitate greater competition in SA’s telecommunications industry, says new Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow communications minister Marian Shinn. Speaking to TechCentral in her first wide-ranging media interview
