Decisions taken on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) will have implications for how future infrastructure projects are financed, minister Collins Chabane said on Friday. It was necessary to guard against decisions and actions that might impact negatively “on our track record in the prudent
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The battle lines have been drawn in the fight for the hearts, minds and wallets of Android users. In the blue corner it’s Korean giant Samsung Electronics, with its Galaxy S3. And in the green corner is plucky Taiwanese featherweight HTC with the One X. Both contenders
MTN’s share price is likely to remain wobbly as jittery foreign investors face massive pressure from US authorities and lobby groups to quit their exposure in Africa’s R255bn cellphone giant because of its business activities in Iran. The company is in danger of being smacked with US sanctions for allegedly providing the Iranian government
The National Association of School Governing Bodies wants a ban on children using cellphones at SA’s schools, Beeld newspaper reported on Friday. According to the association, this was crucial to allow pupils to focus on their work, and to “protect them against irregularities on social networks”. Association
The Brics Cable, a superfast broadband submarine network that will extend from the east of Russia to the US via SA, and which will cost as much as US$1,5bn to construct, is already at an advanced stage of planning and should be ready by mid to late 2014, according to Andrew Mthembu, the SA businessman
Mobile operator 8ta is in the market for a new marketing and sales executive. Stephen Blewett, who had filled this role until last week, has resigned. Blewett joined 8ta, which is the mobile arm of Telkom and SA’s fourth cellphone network operator, in 2009 as a contractor for an initial one-year term. The contract
Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry smartphones, this week unveiled, at least in early beta, its long anticipated and repeatedly delayed BlackBerry 10 operating system. The Canadian company hopes the redesigned OS will help arrest the decline in BlackBerry’s popularity
Stellenbosch-based start-up Crowdinvest wants to harness social networking and “crowd sourcing” to make it possible for established investors – and those who want to begin investing but who have limited disposable income – to put money into local start-ups or contribute to charities, all without leaving their
Android tablets may be improving and Windows 8 slates are on the horizon. But there’s still only one real game in town in the tablet computer market: Apple’s iconic iPad. The new one — the third generation, but don’t call it the iPad 3 — ups the bar to which Apple’s rivals are going to have to measure up
Dimension Data’s long-serving Africa and Middle East CEO Allan Cawood is stepping down at the end of May. This has triggered a management shake-up at the technology services group, with Internet Solutions (IS) MD Derek Wilcocks taking over the position