If you think Eskom’s load shedding causes disruptions, there’s potentially an even bigger problem for the economy waiting in the wings – a technology outage caused by a cyber attack. The very functioning

Maintenance on fibre cables in Egypt could cause slow Internet access in South Africa on Wednesday. Seacom manages a 17 000km undersea fibre broadband cable that connects to places

Telkom’s normalised headline earnings per share are expected to be between 40% and 60% higher in the year ended 31 March 2015 than they were in the 2014 financial year, the company said on

Legislation governing intellectual property (IP) in South Africa has not kept pace with the digital era, a specialist law firm has warned. Spoor & Fisher partner Herman Blignaut says copyright legislation has

The SABC and MultiChoice will launch its rerun entertainment channel, called SABC Encore, on 11 May on DStv. The launch of SABC Encore, which formerly would have been called SABC Entertainment

Eighty-three percent of South African smartphone users connect to the Internet daily, while only 30% of PC users do so. And smartphone use is driving adoption of mobile broadband, with 87% of

The lack of sufficient electricity is the most binding constraint to production and investment in South Africa, finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has acknowledged to MPs. In reply to a written

Smartphone shipments to Africa and the Middle East grew by an “unprecedented” 83% in 2014, according to new research from International Data Corp. The data is included in the IDC’s Q4 2014

While South Africans should be pleased that Eskom successfully performed the first part of its planned maintenance drive without load shedding since 24 April, electricity consumers should be

Minister of telecommunications & postal services Siyabonga Cwele has announced measures the Internet Service Providers’ Association has agreed to to try to suppress xenophobic and other