Computer viruses now live up to their name. Thanks to British researchers, Wi-Fi networks can now infect each other just like a common cold works. It is the stuff of cyber nightmares: an undetectable virus that moves through the airwaves. But researchers at the University of Liverpool have made
South African prosecutors pressing a murder charge against Oscar Pistorius secured a meeting Thursday with Apple officials in the US over accessing potentially crucial evidence on the double-amputee athlete’s locked iPhone, they said. Pistorius claimed he forgot the password for the cellphone, one
Vodacom has joined MTN in filing papers at the high court in Johannesburg seeking to overturn the implementation of communications regulator Icasa’s cuts to wholesale mobile call termination rates. The move comes a week after MTN filed papers at the high
The Special Investigating Unit will probe the validity of a tender awarded by the department of communications, the presidency said on Tuesday. “President Jacob Zuma has signed a proclamation authorising the SIU to investigate certain matters relating to
The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) has called for the resignation of the public protector, following her damning report regarding acting SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. The union on Tuesday promised to organise “massive” marches across the
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) dismissed concerns that its support of the SABC’s controversial acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng would be detrimental to its other members at the SABC, who might fear that the union now sided
While all the focus at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this week was on the announcements from big names in mobile, such as Samsung, Nokia and Sony, plenty of other interesting developments were happening on the show floor
The high court in Pretoria set numerous conditions on Tuesday for media houses to broadcast the murder trial of paralympian Oscar Pistorius. Judge Dunstan Mlambo ruled that the media be allowed to broadcast live transmissions and delayed extracts
The Vodafone Foundation, Vodafone’s social investments arm, has taken the wraps off Instant Network Mini, an 11kg mobile “network in a backpack” that the global mobile operator says can be deployed in just 10 minutes, helping aid workers carry out crucial
BlackBerry intends launching a cheaper, sub-US$200 BlackBerry 10 device in South Africa, the Z3 – code-named Jakarta – as it moves to defend its market share in developing economies. The device, developed for the Indonesian market, where the BlackBerry
