Microsoft has stepped up its fight against software piracy in South Africa, working with the Hawks to execute raids in recent weeks on the premises of various resellers suspected of selling counterfeit and unlicensed products. In the most recent enforcement actions, about 100 counterfeit disks containing Microsoft
Johannesburg was the most active Twitter city in Africa in the last three months of 2013, according to a new study called How Africa Tweets. Johannesburg had 344 215 geo-located tweets, followed by Ekurhuleni with 264 172 and the Egyptian capital Cairo with 227 509, communications agency Portland said
Fast-growing technology services group EOH has reported another strong set of numbers, with headline earnings per share in the six months ended 31 January 2014 up by 33,9% on the back of a 38,4% improvement in revenue. The strong upward move wasn’t enough to push up the share price, however, which was
More than half of the ANC’s current MPs, including disgraced former communications minister Dina Pule, are on the party’s list of parliamentary candidates. Pule who was recalled from her position last year after the public protector’s report into allegations of corruption and a potential conflict of interest against
Brett Haggard returns to the studio this week and leads Benedict Kelly and Deon Du Plessis in a discussion on: Apple’s in-car entertainment concept, EA’s decision not to launch Titanfall in South Africa, the new Lego game and movie and the Lego Pistorius Instagram account
Regulation of South Africa’s communications technology sector needs to be strengthened to ensure that costs come down and broadband speeds improve, government’s Twenty Year Review, released by president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday, says. The purpose of this Twenty Year Review is to reflect on the legacy inherited by
A “buried” report reveals that the South African public believes that the SABC is biased towards the ruling ANC, undermining credibility in the institution. That’s the claim made by the Democratic Alliance, which says it has unearthed a research document put together under the name Project Kindle and meant to understand
The proposed N1/N2 Winelands Toll Highway Project for the Western Cape will introduce traditional toll booths rather than e-tolling gantries, roads agency Sanral said on Tuesday. “You’d call it a traditional toll. It’s a boom down situation where you go, you stop, you pay and you go,” project engineer
The ThinkPad line has always been synonymous with great build quality. Lenovo, which bought the brand from IBM with its acquisition of Big Blue’s PC business in 2005, has built on that reputation, especially with the X1 Carbon line of ultraportable and professional-grade PCs. With the latest, the 2014 edition of the ThinkPad X1
Science & technology minister Derek Hanekom has welcomed a UK contribution of R1,7bn to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. “The significance is in the impetus that this provides to implementation of phase one of the SKA,” Hanekom said in a statement on Tuesday. “This is a most welcome commitment
