The South African government had over the past year submitted 14 requests to Facebook and three to Google to get information about certain users, Beeld reported. Facebook did not grant any of the requests, and Google granted one request, after receiving a court order in a case involving defamation
Absa has added a new channel to its Internet banking portal with Absa Online Insurance, which allows customers to purchase insurance products or maintain existing ones. Customers can apply for insurance, complete the necessary applications and secure long- or short-term insurance
Communications minister Yunus Carrim plans to hold a high-level meeting between broadcasters in mid-September, to be mediated by an independent third party, in an effort to resolve a simmering dispute over whether government-subsidised set-top boxes for digital terrestrial
E.tv will launch four new free-to-air channels, the broadcaster announced on Tuesday. The channels will be made available through sister company Platco Digital’s new OpenView HD direct-to-home satellite platform, which will be launched in October. The new channels
The ANC takes the information and communications technology (ICT) sector seriously and is “more aware now than it has ever been of its crucial importance”. That’s according to communications minister Yunus Carrim, who was speaking to TechCentral in an interview in Stellenbosch on Monday
Blue Label Telecoms and MasterCard plan to roll out point-of-sale (POS) devices to 22 000 small traders and rural shops in South Africa, allowing them to accept card payments for the first time. Blue Label already provides thousands of POS terminals in South Africa, which
Microsoft South Africa has expanded its BizSpark programme, which supports small software development businesses and entrepreneurs, using money from government’s jobs fund and its own 4Afrika initiative. The company wants to help lead the creation of
There is space in South Africa’s telecommunications industry for only two mobile infrastructure operators providing next-generation wireless broadband using 4G/LTE technology, a senior industry executive has said, but a top analyst is not convinced
The Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers’ Union (Bemawu) accepted the SABC’s offer of an 8,5% wage increase on Tuesday. “Today we signed an agreement with the employer of an 8,5% across-the-board wage increase,” said Bemawu president Hannes du Buisson. The union declared
Microsoft is officially launching itself into the smartphone hardware business. The US software company has made a E5,4bn cash offer to buy Nokia’s device and services business, to license the company’s patents and to use Nokia’s mapping services
