Fibre broadband provider Vumatel has announced plans to expand its nascent fibre-to-the-home network to more Johannesburg suburbs. The company said on Friday that residents of Killarney and Riviera, suburbs
President Jacob Zuma and national assembly speaker Baleka Mbete knew about the security plan ahead of last week’s infamous state of the nation address (Sona) in parliament. They were briefed about protective measures put in place. These measures saw disguised
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is a key component of the World Wide Web. It is the communications layer through which Web browsers request Web pages from Web servers and with which Web servers respond with the contents of the page. Like much of
It sometimes seems that whenever security researchers discover some new exploit or malware that allows the monitoring of remote computers, the finger is quickly pointed at the US intelligence agencies. Security firm Kaspersky has revealed a complex
Illegal gambling has cost the country around R110m in tax revenue, affecting service delivery, the Casino Association of South Africa (Casa) said on Friday. “South Africa relies heavily on tax
Eskom will implement rolling blackouts on Saturday, it said. “Eskom will implement stage 2 load shedding from 8am on Saturday, 21 February 2015 [and] this is likely to continue until 10pm in the evening
Tariffic, an independent company launched in late 2013 to analyse and optimise the cellphone spend of business users and high-net-worth individuals, will launch a Web portal in the coming months that will
MTN said on Thursday that it expects that its headline earnings per share (Heps) for the full-year ended 31 December 2014 rose by between 5% and 15%. The mobile operator, which owns networks in 22 countries in the Africa and the Middle East
Glitches with “counter surveillance tactical measures” led to mobile signal disruptions in the national assembly ahead of the state-of-the-nation address, state security minister David Mahlobo said on Thursday. “There was no jamming of the
A few months ago, I argued that over-the-top (OTT) service providers – companies like Facebook and Netflix – must pay network operators for using their infrastructure to deliver services to their customers. A counter-argument has been made that subscribers are already paying