South African development house Rorotika Technologies is the brains behind many technologies consumers use every day in telecommunications and banking. Its latest venture is in gaming on feature phones, a major growth industry
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Cell C, the biggest loser in Icasa’s proposed new call termination rates, has lashed out at the communications regulator, accusing it of making a “dramatic U-turn”. Although Cell C will continue to benefit from “asymmetry” in the rates for the next four years – it will pay bigger rivals MTN
Just as with all the earlier versions of the iPhone, rumours abound about what Apple will announce this week in relation to iPhone 6 – new screens, different sizes, powerful chips, faster processing and an exciting new add-on device – the iWatch. The new product line-up will be launched
The technology distribution business in South Africa has become “massively overtraded” and competitors are in a “race to the bottom” if they can’t diversify by entering complementary business areas. That’s the view of Miles Crisp, CEO of
Some have called the recent hacking of 200 celebrities’ private photographs a sex crime. Others have expressed unseemly delight at this “dream come true”. But few have focused on the real problem here: our collective failure to
The University of the Western Cape has introduced a new model for Village Telco’s Mesh Potato telecommunications device that promises to make the technology sustainable in the long term in rural communities. Village Telco was incorporated by Steve Song in 2011 during a three-year stint
Public protector Thuli Madonsela has been asked to investigate several city of Johannesburg officials for allegedly interfering in a metro police probe involving Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko, Business Times reported on Sunday. Madonsela’s spokesman Oupa Segalwe told
Over the past 20 years, Telkom has been through the wringer. It’s been abused by politicians and by greedy foreign investors, and it’s made spectacular strategic and operational mistakes that have cost it billions. But somehow, through all of this, it’s arrived at a point today under
Disgraced former communications minister Dina Pule and her lieutenants at the department of communications at the time could be in very serious trouble. President Jacob Zuma on Thursday signed a proclamation asking the Special Investigating Unit to probe alleged corruption
In this analysis-packed episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the decision by President Jacob Zuma to direct the Special Investigating Unit to probe alleged corruption and maladministration