A senior BT Group official has hinted that the company, formerly known as British Telecom, is “close to” investing in fibre projects in Africa, and in “SA in particular”, as demand for high-capacity infrastructure in the region explodes. A “data tsunami”

Hacking into the ANC Youth League’s website is an easy because of its disregard for Web security, a senior IT expert said on Tuesday. The latest hacking attacks on the league’s website occurred on Sunday

Competition in the ultraportable notebook PC market has been escalating in recent years, all the more so since netbooks failed to capture a significant share of the market. Sony’s latest offering — the Vaio Z Series — might be lightweight in literal terms but

Budget airline 1time is introducing Apple’s iPad 2 into the pilots’ flight deck as an all-in-one electronic flight bag. Pilots will have electronic fingertip access to a variety of vital resources normally included in a pilot’s carry-on flight bag. The system will

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has queried the status of two initiatives designed to ensure that all South Africans have access to affordable voice and data services. The body, which represents most ISPs in SA, wants to

Banking group Absa has launched a product allowing its customers to apply for personal loans through their cellphones and receive the money in less than 10 minutes. The offering makes loans, ranging from R8 000 to R150 000, immediately available

Wora is an acronym coined by Sun Microsystems more than a decade ago to describe the benefits of a new programming language it created called Java. At the time, every compiled programming language needed to be recompiled on every platform

Telecommunications operator Vodacom has opened a multimillion-rand data centre in Cape Town to provide cloud computing and other services to its business customers. The 1 552sq m facility, which can be expanded to

Telkom’s failed Multi-Links transaction in Nigeria has cost the company more than R7bn, communications minister Roy Padayachie said on Monday. He was responding to a written parliamentary question by the Democratic Alliance

Vox Telecom has supplied video conferencing solutions for a number of years, but is now creating a dedicated division, called Vox Pureview, for the purpose. It intends offering video conferencing solutions, including support for mobile devices, including