Government is not specifically targeting BlackBerry maker Research in Motion in its proposed attempts to allow law enforcement agencies, through the courts, to intercept the communications of the text messages of suspected criminals
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Dimension Data SA chairman Andile Ngcaba, who is a big investor in SA’s telecommunications industry through his company Convergence Partners, expressed frustration on Monday at the slow pace of decision making over the allocation of
The department of communications will meet with local and provincial governments in November to finalise guidelines to facilitate the deployment of fibre-optic cables by the private sector in the country’s cities and towns. Deputy communications
FNB Connect, First National Bank’s Internet service provider, is extending its free YouTube offering to its fixed-line broadband users. Customers registered for FNB Connect Surf can now browse the world’s most popular video site
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
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