Hewlett-Packard’s share price tanked in after-hours trade on Thursday after it said it was abandoning WebOS, its operating system for tablets and mobile devices, and pulling the plug on its Apple iPad rival, the TouchPad. What surprised the technology industry

Energy minister Dipuo Peters wants copper theft to be classified as economic sabotage. Peters told media at the government’s infrastructure development cluster briefing on Thursday that her department had written to justice minister Jeff Radebe to suggest that

Some of the broadband packages being offered by mobile operators are not sustainable in the short or the medium term but may become so in a few years once mobile networks based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology become more pervasive. That’s the view

Motorola’s Xoom has (finally) gone on sale in SA. Though it was originally regarded as the ultimate Android response to Apple’s iPad, much has changed since it was first released in international markets in February. TechCentral’s Craig Wilson spent some time

Publishers used to be the ones in the online space that controlled and understood data, perhaps the most important commodity they have to sell to their advertisers. This is no longer the case, a change which has profound implications for publishers as they try to

MTN wants to share spectrum in the so-called “digital dividend” band with television broadcasters so it can begin rolling out a wireless broadband network across the country using next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) technology. “I would deploy LTE across

Motorola Mobility, the mobile devices arm of Motorola that is in the throes of being bought by Google, is finally launching its Android-based Xoom tablet and Atrix smartphone in SA. With a 10,1-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of flash memory

Services at Telkom and the Post Office will be shut down if demands by workers are not met, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Mass action by 23 000 workers was planned for the first week of September, CWU

Banking group Absa and cellular network operator Vodacom have signed a “multimillion-rand agreement”, which they say will “accelarate the pace of mobile innovation and expand the range of banking and mobile services on offer to

SA’s newest cellular network, 8ta, owned by Telkom, is upping the ante in the ongoing mobile broadband price wars by offering prepaid users a data bundle consisting of 3GB of data for R149. The bundle will be available to both existing and