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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has dismissed Cell C’s appeal against a portion of a ruling handed down by its directorate on 6 October 2010 concerning various complaints about its use of the term “4Gs” in its advertising campaigns. Vodacom, MTN and
Vodacom has again taken exception to Cell C’s television advertising campaign, flighted in early April, in which it took the mickey out of its bigger rival’s decision to rebrand to the red corporate colours of its UK parent, Vodafone. At a hearing
Independent news website The Daily Maverick plans to launch what it’s calling SA’s first daily newspaper designed specifically for Apple’s iPad tablet computer. It’s a move that could add new spice to the country’s media landscape and put pressure on daily
Telkom has run into fresh trouble in attempts to sell the wireless arm of its troubled Nigerian subsidiary, Multi-Links, to that country’s Visafone. On Tuesday, a Nigerian high court found in favour of Helios Towers in a dispute over the validity of a site lease
He was once one of Bill Gates’s top lieutenants at Microsoft and was closely involved in the development of the client-server model of computing. Now Zimbabwean-born and SA-educated Paul Maritz, CEO of US cloud computing specialist VMware, says
Mustek has pulled the plug on a plan to delist from the JSE. A consortium led by CEO David Kan and the Trinitas Private Equity Fund had wanted to execute a management buy-out of the technology company and take it private. Kan says during the preparations
Newspapers won’t die out, but publishers need to recognise that they are in the journalism business, not the newsprint business, and must embrace a range of news delivery vehicles. That’s the view of Peter Barron, Google’s director of external affairs
Cell C has lost an appeal against a decision by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that its advertising, in which it makes certain speed claims about its network, is “misleading”. The authority has upheld an original decision by its directorate
African handset manufacturer Mi-Fone has launched dual-Sim handsets on the continent, hoping to capitalise on the fact that many of the continent’s consumers carry multiple Sim cards and devices to avoid high off-network call tariffs. The company
The City of Tshwane wants to make it easier for telecommunications operators to deploy fibre-optic networks in Pretoria and surrounding areas with a new set of bylaws to ease their construction. The city is set to release a document for public discussion
