Ross Ulbricht, also known as “Dread Pirate Roberts”, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole by a Manhattan federal court for masterminding the Silk Road anonymous online illegal marketplace. Ulbricht was labelled a drug dealer and criminal
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In May, Vodacom announced that it had 9,3m smartphones on its network in South Africa (as at end March, the end of its financial year). That is massive, especially considering that a year ago, the number was 7,3m. Total smart devices on its network
The department of posts & telecommunications is slowly edging closer to completing a white paper on an information and communications technology (ICT) policy review for South Africa. The department presented
HTC’s One M8, the Taiwanese company’s flagship phone for 2014, was – and still is – is a great smartphone. In fact, TechCentral chose it as the best high-end smartphone of last year, ahead of Apple’s iPhone 6 and LG’s G3. And we weren’t the
Vodacom is continuing with its strategy to push low-end smartphones into the mass market to drive up usage of its data network. On Tuesday, the operator took the wraps off its latest low-cost smartphone, the Vodacom Smart 6, which is firmly
The Java programming language, which has just turned 20 years old, provides developers with a means to write code that is independent of the hardware it runs on: “write once, run anywhere”. But, ironically, while Java was intended to make
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has sounded a warning over Cell C’s debts and its ability to repay them, and has said this could trigger a downgrade in the mobile operator’s long-term rating of B-. Such a downgrade, if it were to happen, could affect Cell C’s
Fast-growing telecommunications infrastructure company Dark Fibre Africa, which until now has focused mainly on deploying national and metropolitan fibre links, has announced it intends
Naspers is one of the most closely watched and debated shares on the JSE. Aside from the fact that it is the bourse’s most pricey share, it has been one of its stellar performers – growing by 430% since 2012. In March 2009, Naspers had a market capitalisation
Alan Knott-Craig’s Project Isizwe free Wi-Fi project with the City of Tshwane could “set the pattern for social impact bonds” in South Africa, where the private sector guarantees delivery of services, the