Microsoft is playing up the successful prosecution and sentencing of a businessman who sold pirated software to consumers in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. The “bust”, as the software maker is describing it, took three years to conclude. “Microsoft sees this as

Korea’s LG Electronics has long had to play second fiddle to rival and country mate Samsung, but with its new range of smartphones the company is displaying its mettle and making it clear it can create products that not only stand up to the opposition’s offerings in terms

Nokia on Monday unveiled the N9, its latest high-end smartphone and the first to be powered by Linux-based MeeGo, the operating system developed in partnership with chip-maker Intel. The phone sports a 3,9-inch Amoled touch screen with

MTN SA has launched two new carry-over features, one for all Internet packages and recurring Internet bundles, and another for all once-off Internet bundles. This will allow MTN subscribers to carry over their unused Internet data for additional months

Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, will double the number of base stations active in its network in the next nine months, increasing population coverage from 25% now to between 35% and 40% by the end of the first quarter of 2012

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the body that develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers or domain names, said on Monday it had approved a plan to allow custom generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Currently, there are only 22 gTLDs

Vox Telecom group MD Doug Reed is no stranger to the vagaries of the local telecommunications industry. The 52-year-old has made — and lost — a personal fortune in his career, but is warm and welcoming when I meet him at the company’s offices across the

In the latest episode of Tech Talk, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod chats to Juanita Clark, CEO of the FTTH Council Africa, about the challenges facing telecommunications companies in building fibre networks in SA. Clark talks about the need to facilitate rights of way

SA’s telecommunications industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), will outline the first steps it intends taking to unbundle Telkom’s local loop at a briefing at its offices in Sandton this Wednesday. Icasa will take the wraps

JSE-listed technology group Gijima has acquired BMC Business Service Management from African Legend (AL) Indigo. The company represents Houston, Texas-based BMC Software in SA. BMC develops service management software and