South Africans have flocked to BlackBerry devices in recent years because of the cheap and unlimited on-device browsing, chat and e-mail offered through the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS). Now MTN is hoping to bring similarly priced offerings to other smartphone devices. On Thursday
At public hearings in Johannesburg on Thursday, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) said it would consider all submissions by interested parties in creating an official definition of what constitutes an “underserviced area” for both Internet access and access to public
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is holding public hearings on Thursday to allow telecommunications operators to present their definitions of an “underserviced area”. The definitions are important because, under Icasa’s guidelines for future spectrum allocation
How far does an iPad get you on the road in Africa, perhaps the toughest continent for travellers? Your correspondent spent a month finding out, while journeying 8 000km overland in eastern and southern Africa, two of the continent’s better connected regions. Between Nairobi in Kenya and Cape Town
At any randomly selected point, one in 12 airline passengers in the US is using a tablet computer or e-reader. That’s one of the findings reported in a new study on the use of electronic devices on aeroplanes, trains and buses by the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul
It’s the privacy snafu that will not die. A day after a developer discovered that mobile social network Path was storing users’ entire address books on its servers, the start-up seemed to have defused the incident by apologising and deleting all the personal data it had stored. But now Gawker’s
Jeffrey Hedberg’s short-lived tenure as chief operating officer of Altech and CEO Craig Venter’s very public reaction to his resignation appear to reflect deep underlying tensions in the Venter family empire. Can Altron founder Bill Venter, now 77, hold the family-run
Nokia may have some hot new smartphone models coming this year, but its financial turmoil isn’t over. The Finnish phone giant said on Wedneday it plans to cut 4 000 jobs this year. The company is reducing production at plants in Hungary, Mexico and Finland. The three plants
Bequester is a Johannesburg-based start-up that hopes to give small businesses the buying power of large ones. Launched as a public beta in November 2011, the site facilitates procurement deals between businesses that want products or services and those that can supply them. Founded by Thabo Makenete
Strong growth in demand for data, where revenues have risen by 23,8% in the past year, has helped propel the Vodacom Group’s total sales higher by 12,2% to R18bn in the third quarter of its financial year to 31 December 2011. The JSE-listed telecommunications operator has reported a 41,2% increase in
