Alan Knott-Craig, who takes the helm at mobile operator Cell C next Monday, hinted strongly on Wednesday that the operator will begin offering Apple’s iPhone to its subscribers within the next few months. Until now, the iPhone has only been available through MTN and Vodacom
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South Africans using Apple and Google Android-based smartphones can look forward to being able to accept credit- and cheque-card payments using their mobile phones from early next month, thanks to a Cape Town-based start-up that is launching a new service called CheqOut next month. CheqOut founder Bradley Elliott says the service will also support
Satellite broadband provider SkyeVine has had a stressful first few months, not least because of problems with its satellite provider, but the company appears to be finding its feet – and finding subscribers in some unlikely places. Meant as a broadband service for outlying and other underserviced areas that don’t have access
What do you do when you find that a service you want doesn’t exist? If your name is John Fearon, you create the service yourself. Fearon started a website back up service called Dropmysite after his business website had a hosting problem that took it out of commission. His latest offering, e-mail backup service Dropmyemail is proving
JSE-listed electronics, engineering and telecommunications group Reunert is upset over an apparent exodus of employees from its subsidiary, voice communications specialist Nashua ECN, to John Holdsworth’s new start-up AppChat and is now considering legal action. TechCentral has learnt that Reunert is planning to put out
ormer Vodacom Group CEO Alan Knott-Craig wants to double Cell C’s market share within the next three or four years, he told a Sunday newspaper. In an interview with the Sunday Times at the weekend, Knott-Craig said he wanted to take the company’s share of the market from 13% to 25%. Knott-Craig, who takes the reins at Cell C next week
Fibre telecommunications industry lobby group, the FTTH Council Africa, has given the Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality until noon on Wednesday to lift a moratorium on fibre projects on Gauteng’s East Rand or face court action. FTTH Council Africa CEO Juanita Clark had earlier said the council would take the municipality
Two decades ago, only spies and systems administrators had to worry about passwords. But today you have to enter one even to do humdrum things like turning on your computer, downloading an album or buying a book online. No wonder many people use a single, simple password for everything. Analysis of password databases, often stolen
Craig Wilson’s opinion piece (“How Icasa has failed us”), in which he reflects on Icasa’s decision to refuse TopTV’s application for authorisation to broadcast three additional channels that will carry adult content is so extreme in its attack on Icasa that it warrants a response. The underlying thrust of Wilson’s argument
An international consortium planning to build the world’s most powerful radio telescope is still debating whether SA or Australia should host the US$2bn project, an official said Friday. Scientists hope the Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, will shed new light