South Africa is producing too few doctoral graduates, science and technology minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday. Opening debate in parliament on her department’s R6,47bn budget, she told MPs the country currently turned
The Labia Theatre, an institution among cinemagoers in Cape Town, is in trouble and is turning to the Internet for help. Beginning this Thursday and running for 45 days, the four-auditorium Labia
Having been a child of the home computer boom of the early 1980s and then worked with computers for many years, I can’t help but sigh every time a new campaign to reduce piracy comes into effect. It’s the same now that the
Residents of another upmarket Johannesburg suburb have kick-started the process of building a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in their neighbourhood. Parkview has signalled plans to follow the example of nearby Parkhurst, which has taken an early lead in building FTTH. “We have fast fibre-optic
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring US Internet traffic picked up an alert. The signal was coming from the Nasdaq. It looked like malware had snuck into the company’s central servers. There were indications that the intruder was not a kid somewhere, but the intelligence
Roads agency Sanral will heed transport minister Dipuo Peters’ call for the prosecution of non-paying e-toll users to be halted for now. Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona said that the company acted according to its shareholder’s directive. “The minister represents the shareholder – the government
First National Bank will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the Web browser introduced with Windows 7, from September. The bank told customers on Thursday it cannot be restricted by the limitations IE8 imposes on its online banking system. “It is our policy to support the three latest Internet Explorer
Government’s centralised IT services and technology procurement organisation, the State IT Agency, will in future no longer report into the minister of public service and administration. Rather, it will in future report into the ministry of telecommunications and postal services, headed by Siyabonga Cwele. This is one of a
A Japanese messaging app called Line has filed for an initial public offering valued at nearly US$10bn. For an app almost unknown outside Japan it’s an audacious move. However, messaging is there simply to suck you into Line’s mobile world, where the real profits are made. Unlike its rivals, it is already
The saga of Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appointment as the permanent chief operating officer of the SABC, after an unacceptably long and controversial tenure acting in the same position, has united South African political parties — including the ANC — in ways no issue has in recent times. A broad range of the public and organisations