The way South Africa’s telecommunications and broadcasting regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, is structured and funded could be overhauled as part of a review of the country’s information and communications
Self-tracking, body hacking, life-logging, wearables, the quantified self — you may have heard these terms being thrown around a lot in the past year thanks to companies such as Fitbit, Nike+ and Jawbone. It was these three companies that were largely
Copper theft increased to a level of R10,5m in December, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Monday. According to Sacci, copper theft stood at R9,5m in November 2013. The chamber said the copper theft barometer
South Africa’s communications minister, Yunus Carrim, likes to joke that his favourite book is Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, a joke which is aimed at those worried about his communist background. But, in reality, the former journalist and academic’s reading tastes are far more
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. It’s the phrase that’s launched a thousand editorials, most of them decrying the manifest evils of the insatiable 1%. But a large part of this increased inequality is driven not by greed or manipulation, but by technology
There’s an online land grab of the sort not seen since the dot-com bubble taking place in the global instant messaging (IM) market. WhatsApp Messenger, WeChat (partly owned by South Africa’s Naspers), Hangouts, Skype and BlackBerry Messenger, along with several smaller
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has said that he hopes the company will be offering conmsumers a triple-play combination of uncapped Internet access, voice services and video on demand (VOD) for one flat-rate fee within the next 12 months. The JSE-listed telecommunications operator, which is
A bomb threat was reported at roads agency Sanral’s operations centre in Samrand, near Midrand on Sunday. Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) CEO Jamie Surkont said a sweep of the building was in progress and if necessary, they would move to the back
South Africans could soon find themselves having to wrestle with a new type of electrical plug following the adoption of an apparently much safer standard for plugs and sockets. SANS 164-2 was introduced as the “preferred standard” for electrical plugs and sockets by the South
Telkom has reduced the price of its wholesale IP Connect product, the one Internet service providers use to access its broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) network, by 15%. IP Connect fees have a direct impact on DSL prices in South Africa, which ISPs usually quick to pass