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We tend to think of technological convergence as something that happens at the consumer level. In the last decade phones have become music players and video cameras, and tablets have become

Vodacom is widely expected to take the wraps off its new brand this Friday at a concert at Soweto’s Orlando Stadium. It’s expected to adopt the red and white colours of its parent, Vodafone. But what, if anything

The West African Cable System (Wacs) will land on SA shores early in April, bringing the construction phase of the project to an end. However, its commercial launch has been pushed back by a few

The espionage business, using hi-tech surveillance gadgets, is booming in SA as businessmen, politicians and even ordinary consumers turn to technology to spy on colleagues, business associates

Turns out our speculation was right on the money. Vodacom is ditching its familiar blue and green colours and rebranding to parent Vodafone’s red and white while retaining its name

Seacom has moved to buy redundant capacity on competing cables already in place around Africa following a spate of downtime incidents that have left some SA consumers fuming

The department of trade & industry believes it can generate as much as R40bn of investment into the country through “equity equivalence” deals involving multinational corporations that operate in SA

Microsoft SA will today, Tuesday, announce the names of four successful black-owned companies that will receive an investment injection as part of its black empowerment “equity equivalence” deal

“Sentech is dysfunctional.” These were the opening words of a column my colleague Duncan McLeod wrote in September last year. Make no mistake: the state-owned signal distributor was in more trouble

There is a clear business case for building fibre-to-the-home networks in SA, and more telecommunications companies should be looking at it. That’s the view of Icasa councillor William Stucke