Telkom is again planning to offer its employees the opportunity to take voluntary severance and early retirement packages as it looks to reduce its staff complement to save costs. Employees interested in the offer must apply in a window period opening on 15 March and ending on 31 August
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Seacom, the company behind the undersea cable of the same name, has launched a new company, called Pamoja, to offer small and medium-sized enterprises the ability to provide cloud computing-based services to their customers without the capital outlay such services usually require
In the past three years, the Free State government has awarded multiple contracts worth millions of rand to Letlaka Group, the company controlled by Tumi Ntsele, the man who benefited directly from the province’s controversial R40m-plus website tender. The claims have
Communications minister Dina Pule is trying to persuade SABC board chairman Ben Ngubane and his deputy to withdraw their resignations, the presidency said on Monday. “The matter is receiving attention from the communications
IBM has partnered with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Astron) to develop high-speed but low-powered “exascale” computers that will meet the enormous demands of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope. The
The rocket is 10 storeys tall. As we watch, it ignites and rises slowly skyward on a tongue of flame. A few hundred metres into the air it stops and slowly descends again, landing gracefully on the same launchpad it just left. Elon Musk smiles ecstatically at his audience, like a proud father at the birth of a
The road to digital migration in local television is paved with good intentions, vested interests, legal disputes and delays. In 2006, South Africa told the International Telecommunication Union it would switch from analogue to digital broadcasting by 2015 and the first digital migration policy
SABC board chairman Ben Ngubane and his deputy, Thami ka Plaatjie, have resigned, the public broadcaster reported on Monday morning. SABC radio news quoted communications spokesman Siya Qoza as saying President Jacob Zuma needed to decide whether to accept the resignations or
Craig Wilson and Duncan McLeod chat about the Free State website scandal in this week’s episode of TalkCentral, the podcast brought to you by TechCentral, the home of South Africa’s best technology journalism. Also in the podcast this week
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has warned that using imported or otherwise uncertified cordless telephones can seriously affect mobile coverage. Moreover, using them is a criminal offence and the authority intends clamping down on those flouting