The Gauteng provincial government has revealed more details about its plans to wire up the province to broadband. It is starting the project by connecting its core sites to a 1 600km fibre network. The province has also announced plans

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has filed papers opposing the Democratic Alliance’s court challenge to the appointment of SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. “I have already done that,” she told reporters at

Vodacom has shown good growth in the user base of its South African operation, and turned in a healthy service revenue increase in its international services for the quarter to June 2014. Group revenue for the quarter

Independent Newspapers on Thursday accused Mail & Guardian owner Trevor Ncube of seeking a public spat because he had failed to acquire a portion of it. “Since the failure of his attempted acquisition of a portion of our

Microsoft, fresh from concluding its acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services business, has announced it will discontinue the handset maker’s Asha and S40 feature phones, as well as, perhaps less surprisingly, the Nokia X Android phones, over the next 18 months. Feature phones and particularly the Nokia

Independent Newspapers’ group executive editor Karima Brown on Wednesday accused Mail & Guardian owner Trevor Ncube of telling an “odd bare-faced lie”. “Mr Ncube has called to question the integrity and professionalism of the Independent journalists who have produced our stories on his

The world of connected everything is fast approaching. It’s a world where everyday objects, from a toothbrush to our glasses, are able to communicate, save and share data. This is a time of great innovation, with an avalanche of ever-smarter devices beginning to move our way, generating more and more

Beats headphones are often shunned by audiophiles, who claim that the bass-heavy audio does not accurately reproduce sound. This is criticism we hear regularly from readers and tech-savvy users. The thicker sound, which is the signature of all Beats headphones, works well for some music genres

The pain, it seems, is not over for former Nokia workers as their new employer, Microsoft, prepares to cut its workforce by a massive 18 000. Microsoft has not announced where all of these cuts will come from, but 12 500 are expected to be from the newly acquired Nokia mobile business which added

South Africa will fail to meet the mid-2015 deadline, agreed to with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts, according to an international research firm. Consulting and research firm Ovum says most sub-Saharan countries, including