South Africa’s two biggest mobile networks are gearing up to attend parliamentary hearings on possible regulation of over-the-top services. Vodacom and MTN will attend hearings on 26 January at which
About 3,8bn light years away, a star has exploded with a brightness of 570bn times that of our own sun. If that fails to impress you, consider that this is almost 20 times the output
Roads agency Sanral has allegedly started texting messages to Gauteng drivers who have shunned paying their e-toll fees, telling them to pay up or face action, an anti-tolls group said on Friday
An online petition is calling on South Africa’s government to reject calls by mobile networks to regulate over-the-top services such as WhatsApp and Skype. Online women’s magazine
South Africans who use virtual private networking services to watch the US version of Netflix could soon find their access blocked. Netflix vice-president of content delivery architecture David Fullagar warned in a post on the subscription video-on-demand
South Africa’s third largest mobile network, Cell C, says that possible local regulation of over-the-top (OTT) services such as WhatsApp and Skype could harm the industry and consumers. OTT services – which range from WhatsApp to Skype and
Eskom envisages a bigger role for itself in the nascent renewable energy industry in South Africa, according to Ayanda Nakedi, senior GM of Eskom’s Renewables Energy Unit. The department of energy’s Renewable Energy Independent Power
At least three top independent technology experts have resigned from a national broadband council amid allegations of insufficient guidance from government. The National Broadband Advisory Council was launched by former communications minister Yunus Carrim on 4 March 2014
I’m a technology cynic. Often, I simply can’t see the magic in the bottle that’s being advertised. Sometimes I just get hung up on semantics. For example, a conversation around Microsoft’s HoloLens once degenerated over my annoyance that everyone was referring to it
Michael Bowren and Chris Ball have taken on a mammoth task. They’re building an online platform to enable consumers to compare financial products – including bank accounts, loans and credit cards – offered by South Africa’s lenders. Having recognised that many South