The European parliament’s rejection of new copyright rules shows how difficult it is for regulators to compel the tech industry to pay for content that it uses for free. The parliament voted on Thursday to send a draft
While financial services company Liberty may have suffered the biggest data breach ever in South Africa, losing between 20TB and 40TB of data contained in e-mails and attachments, it is not the only listed
By finally publishing regulations on the use of television white spaces, communications regulator Icasa has paved the way for two significant turning points in the country’s roll-out of Internet access to its citizens
It’s all rather academic at this stage, but Vodacom – like rival MTN – is keen to show off the capabilities of 5G wireless broadband technology. The company will use the upcoming Durban July to showcase the capabilities
After facing a worst-case scenario in which thousands of social grant beneficiaries have found themselves empty-handed since the start of July, the South African Post Office said it cannot guarantee a payment
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has lost the latest round in his long-running battle to avoid extradition to the US and will now take his case to New Zealand’s highest court. The court of appeal said on Thursday that
The Intergovernmental FinTech Working Group (IFWG) is taking steps to formalise South Africa’s stance on fintech and innovation, aiming to produce a draft policy paper by early 2019. The paper is set to present
Data centre provider Teraco has announced it will expand its Isando campus facility in Johannesburg in a R1-billion further investment. Increased demand for additional data centre capacity is being driven by
The delivery of audio over the Internet could render a plan by communications regulator Icasa to license new digital radio broadcasters moot, Primedia, which already owns several commercial FM and AM radio
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Neil Hamilton, vice president of a new Internet of things (IoT) provider in South Africa called Thingstream. Thingstream, which is part of a Swiss