The department of communications will meet with local and provincial governments in November to finalise guidelines to facilitate the deployment of fibre-optic cables by the private sector in the country’s cities and towns. Deputy communications
FNB Connect, First National Bank’s Internet service provider, is extending its free YouTube offering to its fixed-line broadband users. Customers registered for FNB Connect Surf can now browse the world’s most popular video site
Government has mooted a change to legislation to allow the SA Police Service to get access, through the courts, to the records of people using Research in Motion’s popular BlackBerry communications service. Deputy communications minister
We bring you a bumper edition of the TalkCentral podcast this week. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson unpack the launch of Telkom Business Mobile and ask whether the telecommunications company has turned the corner and what a reinvigorated Telkom could
Imagine a cellular base station that could fit in your pocket, or be installed on a lamppost or a bench in a street with poor reception? It may sound far-fetched, but it’s not. Despite its diminutive proportions, the Lightradio Cube, developed by Bell Labs in Germany, is said to have
Choice in most roleplaying games (RPGs) is crudely binary and clumsily presented through a dialogue tree. Press X to butcher the fluffy kitten; press Y to rescue it from a snarling Rottweiler. Cyberpunk epic Deus Ex: Human Revolution sets itself apart from the pack by building
The International Institute of Communications’ annual telecommunications conference takes place in Johannesburg in a month’s time and this year’s event is crammed full of high-level speakers from business, government and regulatory agencies. The event, for which
Telkom on Thursday took the wraps off its plans to compete with Vodacom and MTN in the business mobile market and to launch converged fixed and mobile solutions to business customers. TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod spoke to
Matthew Fraser, a British-Canadian former journalist and now self-styled Web 2.0 strategist and new media expert, says that the world is living in a “reset economy” where the Internet and social media are “redefining how we manage people
Telkom has launched its mobile offerings for business, proclaiming it will lead in fixed-mobile convergence and in cloud computing in the business market in SA and saying it is looking forward to be an “attacker” in the mobile space. Brian Armstrong