Is the SABC back to blacklisting press and commentators? That’s what South Africa’s media is wondering after the SABC withdrew an invitation to commentator Eusebius McKaiser to appear on a
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appeal against the high court order that he be suspended pending a disciplinary inquiry, is set to be heard in the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein in September. This is after the case
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The department of telecommunications & postal services has come out in strong support for the principle of network neutrality. Net neutrality is the concept of treating all Web traffic equally. Debates around net neutrality are raging in
Ross Ulbricht, also known as “Dread Pirate Roberts”, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole by a Manhattan federal court for masterminding the Silk Road anonymous online illegal marketplace. Ulbricht was labelled a drug dealer and criminal
South Africans love sport, sunshine and boerewors – but Web traffic shows that locals also love their online racy content, too. According to statistics from global online pornography provider Pornhub, South Africans have a deep relationship with the skin
In May, Vodacom announced that it had 9,3m smartphones on its network in South Africa (as at end March, the end of its financial year). That is massive, especially considering that a year ago, the number was 7,3m. Total smart devices on its network
The department of posts & telecommunications is slowly edging closer to completing a white paper on an information and communications technology (ICT) policy review for South Africa. The department presented
Telkom has introduced an electronic tender management system, which it said will herald big changes in its procurement processes. All tender processes will be moved onto an electronic portal
HTC’s One M8, the Taiwanese company’s flagship phone for 2014, was – and still is – is a great smartphone. In fact, TechCentral chose it as the best high-end smartphone of last year, ahead of Apple’s iPhone 6 and LG’s G3. And we weren’t the