British Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement
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Korea’s Samsung Electronics is not buying Canada’s BlackBerry, the two companies said overnight, denying a Reuters report that an acquisition was on the cards. The newswire quoted an unnamed source as saying that Samsung had recently offered
International GPS specialist Garmin has acquired South African technology company iKubu, which is developing a radar system that alerts cyclists of what’s happening around them on the road. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. The Stellenbosch-based
Public hearings hosted by telecommunications regulator Icasa are due to commence later this week to discuss Vodacom’s acquisition of Neotel. The final decision will have far-reaching consequences, with the potential either to accelerate or inhibit the roll-out of high-speed fibre connectivity
A R17bn project to introduce tablets to government schools in Gauteng will ultimately boost the country’s economy, deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday. “One of the factors constraining economic growth in South Africa is the relative shortage of e-skills
The broadcasting landscape in Africa is poised for disruptive change, with locally developed television content delivered over mobile phone networks set to change the way people across the continent consume
Grade nine pupils in a school in Tembisa, Johannesburg listen attentively to their teacher as she asks them to work out an equation in a financial literacy class. But instead of scribbling the answers down in a notebook, the pupils each work out the
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has denied that she is considering suspending some members of the SABC board. This is after Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis said in a statement on Tuesday that the party understood “from several sources” that Muthambi
With somewhere in the region of 1,3bn users, Facebook is the largest ever Internet social engagement phenomenon. With so many people interconnected through the site, information can speedily propagate around the world – without any clear indication whether
Keystone Electronic Solutions, a contract design engineering firm based in Pretoria, is hiring. The only problem is, it can’t fill the vacancies it has for engineering graduates because, according to co-founders John Eigelaar and Ivan Popov, the people coming out of