Netflix appears to be moving quickly to make good on a threat that it would cut off subscribers accessing its content from outside the territory in which they are located. Users in Australia have begun reporting that they can’t use proxy services and virtual
Far from the personal computing era being over, young consumers – those between 18 and 24 – are the most pro-PC of all age groups in 2016 and are “very unlikely” to abandon the PC as a platform. This is a key finding in Deloitte Global’s new TMT Predictions 2016 report
There’s plenty of excitement at the announcement overnight that a new planet is potentially waiting to be found at the extremes of our solar system. The possible ninth planet is thought to be quite substantial, with a mass around 10 times that of Earth and a radius that’s two
MTN could be forced to cough up as much as R1,5bn to Cameroonian authorities after a special anti-corruption commission, known as Conac, found that the operator, along with rival Orange, owed nearly R2,8bn in taxes and royalties to the government
A virus attack on the computer system of one of the largest hospital networks in Australia is cause for concern because it affected machines running Microsoft’s Windows XP, an operating system no longer supported by the software giant
The recent decision by all three telecommunications operators in Morocco to block voice-over-Internet protocol and other IP-based services is the first shot in what is going to
A media alert sent out by parliament on 14 January about a meeting to discuss possible regulation of over-the-top (OTT) services like WhatsApp was unauthorised, according to an MP. Last week, parliament’s portfolio committee on telecommunications
A recent piece by Rick Rowden in Foreign Policy suggests that Africa’s boom is over. He couldn’t be more wrong. Rowden argues in his article that due to the collapsing commodity prices and
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It comes as a shock to many when they realise that the apps and content on their computers and mobile devices are not their property to do with as they wish. This mostly becomes an issue when someone dies and the relatives try and get access to apps, accounts and content
