Roads agency Sanral is fabricating e-tag sales figures, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) said on Wednesday. Outa claims Sanral has sold less than half of the number of e-tags than it claims it has. “Based on a statistically sound sample size, Outa’s research shows that

Roads agency Sanral has rejected claims by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) that it was fabricating e-tag sales figures. “The e-tag sales figures we have released are accurate,” Sanral said in a statement on Thursday. “As a state-owned entity, everything we do is subject to audit processes

Telkom cannot use the fact that it is relatively overstaffed and unproductive to hold back local-loop unbundling. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has rejected arguments the fixed-line operator has put forward about the impact of its so-called “access-line deficit” and has

The horror truck accident on Fields Hill near Pinetown in Durban, posted by eNews Channel Africa, was the video South Africans watched the most on YouTube in 2013, Google, which owns the video platform, said on Wednesday. Globally, the world watched the The Fox more than 265m times

Media24 denied on Wednesday that it plagiarised seven stories by Caxton’s online business news service Moneyweb. “There is no copyright or exclusivity in news items. No copyright exists on facts, figures, names, places or even quotes in news stories,” Media24 said in a statement

As any international traveller can attest, roaming overseas with a South African Sim card can be prohibitively expensive, with data charges often running to hundreds of rand per megabyte. Vodacom has introduced a new product that should help jetsetters reduce

A Johannesburg-based start-up is embracing the “second screen” trend of people using tablets or phones while watching television by creating a platform that enhances the experience of watching live sports. Puntr is a real-time social sports prediction game that lets soccer fanatics

It’s the last episode for 2013 and Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose and David Greenway go through their gadget picks of the year. There’s a little bit of news thrown in for good measure, too. Topics discussed include the new R99 uncapped ADSL offer from Incredible Connection, Amazon Prime Air

As is customary at this time of the year, TechCentral is pleased to present its lists of who it considers the biggest technology newsmakers over the past 12 months, both internationally and in South Africa. We kick it off, as always, with the five people the publication’s editors believe

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation is considering changing its governance structure to a treaty organisation because of tax. The organisation, comprising the countries that are financing the world’s biggest radio telescope, is currently a corporation