Most South Africans cannot live without their cellphones, with many worried they might miss something if they turn them off,…
Month: March 2010
Online retailer, Naspers-owned Kalahari.net, has pipped rival, Avusa subsidiary Exclusive Books, to the post to be the first SA company…
Companies owed money by Faritec will have to opt for shares in the troubled JSE-listed IT group, or risk losing…
Pornographic websites could soon have their own top-level domain, alongside .net, .com and .org. That’s if the international body that manages Web addresses agrees to new proposals put to it at a meeting being held in Nairobi, Kenya this week. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will hear arguments on Friday
It’s like a movie about America’s Old West. Except this is SA, and it’s not a gripping story on the silver screen where actors get shot, dust themselves off, have a good laugh, and head back to their trailers. No, in the Wild West we’re heading into
Altech chief operating officer Andy Baker has resigned. Baker, who worked closely with Altech CEO Craig Venter, has left the…
Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson claims it will be the first in Africa to deploy a third-generation (3G) cellphone network in…
Internet service providers (ISPs) are up in arms over the provisions of the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (Rica),…
Web browsers Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome have all enjoyed a lift after Microsoft agreed to a European Union demand that the company give Windows users a choice of which browser they’d like installed as default. A settlement with the EU
Within days of mobile interconnection rates being cut, SA’s two biggest cellphone operators, MTN and Vodacom, have slashed their peak-time…