Crime fighters in Diepsloot have a new weapon in their arsenal in the form of technologies to ensure better crime reporting and faster response times. Police on Wednesday announced a project with security company
Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has thrown its weight behind global calls for the Samsung Galaxy Note7 to be banned from flights. Jason Tshabalala, group manager for security at Acsa, urged passengers
Vodacom has introduced a technology on its network called dual-carrier high-speed uplink packet access, or DC-HSUPA, that it said will speed up data uploads for consumers on 3G. The technology is an evolution of high-speed
R39,5bn. That’s the amount South Africans spent on cellphone contracts in 2015. This analysis of the market is possible for the first time after the publication of a transaction circular by Blue Label Telecoms, which detailed
Microsoft’s first quarter sales and earnings topped analysts’ estimates, buoyed by growing demand for cloud-based software and services. Profit excluding certain items was US$0,76/share on adjusted sales of $22,3bn
MTN Group shares slumped to a six-year low after a Nigerian senator claimed the wireless carrier may have illegally moved more than the previously estimated US$14bn out of the country, citing early findings
When the editor of TechCentral promised to cover extensively the recently published national integrated ICT policy white paper – and provide analysis of it – we were excited. In the past two weeks, that excitement has turned
Popular (mis)conception has it that Cell C, whose resurgence began under Alan Knott-Craig in 2012 and continues under Jose Dos Santos, has been rapidly stealing market share from larger rivals Vodacom and
Vumatel has reached an agreement to acquire fellow fibre-to-the-home provider Fibrehoods, potentially kick-starting a long-expected consolidation of the industry, in which it is estimated there are more than two dozen players
The Competition Commission has struck down meter taxi drivers’ bid to declare Internet app Uber as engaging in predatory pricing and anticompetitive behaviour. In May this year, eight regional taxi companies and 150 individual