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Many BlackBerry users appeared to be without Internet service again on Tuesday as they took to social media networks like Twitter to complain of a fresh outage after yesterday’s prolonged interruption to the BlackBerry Internet Service. Yesterday’s outage affected

The official Facebook application for Apple’s iPad has supposedly been ready since as early as May of this year, yet it only showed up in the App Store on Monday. It’s arrival, albeit late, represents a combination of the world’s bestselling

Competitors seeking access to Telkom’s “last mile” of copper cables into homes and businesses should be able to choose the model they want to use to gain access to the infrastructure. That’s the view of cellular network operator Vodacom, which

Cellular network operator MTN kicked off public hearings on local-loop unbundling in Sandton on Tuesday, arguing strongly against proposals that the regulatory intervention be extended to the wireless local loop. The Independent Communications Authority

Local-loop unbundling will only benefit rich people in urban areas, Cosatu affiliate the Communication Workers Union warned at public hearings on the process on Tuesday. “Who will benefit? The rich, most probably white, urban population that resides in the suburbs,” union representative Vulture Ntukuli told the council of the Independent Communications Authority

Shortly after 2000, when the dot-com bubble burst, a pall was cast over the technology industry. Internet companies ran out of funding and hit the wall, the Nasdaq crashed and is still valued at a fraction of what it was at the height of the

Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has slammed M-Net for suggesting last week that the country would be better off scrapping plans to build set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television, saying the pay-TV operator is acting out of self-interest only. M-Net’s director for legal

The last six months have seen just about every hardware manufacturer bringing a tablet computer to market. On the whole, they’ve been compared with either the iPad 2 or the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. But we thought we’d compare apples with apples in this

BlackBerry users have been hit by a major outage reportedly affecting the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) across parts of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, including the UK. The extent of the problem isn’t yet clear, but countless SA BlackBerry users began reporting problems

The long-awaited hearings on local-loop unbundling, the process whereby competitors will be given access in some shape or form to Telkom’s “last mile” of copper-cable infrastructure, kick off on Tuesday at the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s offices