Building fibre broadband infrastructure into homes and businesses is one of MTN South Africa’s “biggest priorities”, its newly appointed CEO, Mteto Nyati, has said. In an interview with TechCentral

Private education group Curro claims it is still keen to pursue an acquisition of rival Advtech, and has revealed how much it may be prepared to pay for the company. This comes a day after Advtech’s board rejected Curro’s advances after spending a

Telkom has introduced new smartphone plans that bring aggressive new voice and data pricing to consumers. The new plans start at R50, which includes 150 minutes of voice and 150MB of data, and go up to R300 for 900 minutes of voice and 900MB of data

The City of Cape Town is warning motorists not to drive while using cellphones as it ramps up its confiscation programme. On Tuesday, the city announced that it was nearing the 10 000 mark in terms of confiscated cellphones from drivers since 2012.

Communications regulator Icasa has asked for written submissions over the proposed acquisition of iBurst and Broadlink parent Wireless Business Solutions by MultiSource, a company that enjoys the backing of former banking executives Michael Jordaan

Young Jo’burgers in school and university still use libraries — but not necessarily for reading. It appears that while the number of people using library facilities are on the rise, it is mostly for studying, research or for access to the Internet, according to the

Smart technologies in modern cars could make them vulnerable to hackers, a video purports to show. In a YouTube posting by Wired, a standard 2014 Jeep is hacked by a pair who compromise the cellular connectivity of the vehicle. “It hasn’t been altered in any way

Vox Telecom is acquiring Internet services company Frogfoot Networks as part of its plan to build its own fibre-optic network to serve business clients in South Africa. “The acquisition will see Vox Telecom fast-tracking its own fibre strategy by leveraging the

Cybercrooks don’t need to hack your computer or cellphone to steal an identity. They simply trawl cemeteries for a target ID, says a security expert. “Fraudsters will trawl cemeteries, online obituaries, even newspapers to find a deceased person that

There’s value in more than just credit card data, as Avid Life Media, parent company of the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison, has found out after being raided for millions of their customer’s details. All sorts of information that isn’t expressly