More than 14 000 people have signed an online petition launched on Thursday against the Film and Publication Board’s (FPB’s) draft online regulations. “A new set of regulations threatens
The South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee hiked the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6%/annum, effective from 24 July 2015, its governor Lesetja Kganyago announced on Thursday. Banks will raise their prime lending and variable mortgage
Altron has decided to sell its poorly performing video-on-demand platform, the Altech Node, and is in the advanced stages of discussions with an unnamed third party to dispose of the product. Altron subsidiary Altech launched the Node
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