Vodacom incurred the wrath of consumers last year when it said it planned to throttle the data speeds of BlackBerry subscribers who used more than 100MB/month after some users were found to be downloading 100GB or more a month. Now, Vodacom
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The lack of fibre-optic transmission networks outside SA’s main urban centres could prove a huge stumbling block to rolling out next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) networks in rural areas and add significant costs for operators wanting to meet roll-out obligations for these networks. Richard Morse, group technology executive
JSE-listed technology group EOH has reported numbers for the first half to end-January. Without doubt, this is one of the most amazing success stories over the past decade anywhere in the market. The company has grown both organically and through acquisition and done so without fail. To illustrate my point, revenue for the half
If you believe the claptrap coming out of the Apple camp in the past week, then you’ll accept as gospel that the era of the personal computer is over. Nothing could be further from the truth. The PC is alive and well; it’s just being reinvented. Listening to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s keynote speech at the launch of the iPad 3 (sorry, the “new iPad”) last week
Encyclopaedia Britannica, mortally wounded by the Web and Wikipedia, is ending the production of its print edition in favour of a strictly digital strategy, the company announced Tuesday. “It’s a rite of passage in this new era,” Encyclopaedia Britannica president Jorge Cauz told the New York Times. First published
Ewan Sutherland, visiting adjunct professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, says corruption has become endemic in the telecommunications industry worldwide — and particularly in emerging markets. He says it’s becoming vital that this corruption
MTN SA has told the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) that a second digital migration may be necessary once the move from analogue to digital television broadcasting has been completed because of the fragmentation of the spectrum that will be freed up when analogue signals are turned off
Steven Levy was not interested in technology when he growing up. Rather, he was into music in a big way. Coming of age in the 1960s, he wanted to be a music critic because they were almost like rock stars themselves. But the times were, unfortunately, a-changin’
You may not have heard of Barry Diller or IAC, the sprawling conglomerate he founded, but you’ve definitely heard of the brands he owns. From Vimeo to Expedia to The Daily Beast to Match.com, IAC has fingers in all of the Web’s biggest markets. So when Diller
Most of us take it for granted that we own our own bodies. The establishment of human rights took care of that issue two centuries ago. But what about our DNA, the most basic building block of our bodies? We spread our DNA wherever we go, shedding skin flakes