Anyone with a laptop or a smartphone has a love-hate relationship with Wi-Fi. When it works it’s like magic, but too often you find yourself just out of range, or struggling to remember which password you used with this or that hotspot. But imagine

A new tax on imported monitors has the computer industry increasingly incensed and they want action from authorities to remedy the situation, which they say is harming the technology sector. In April, a 7% ad valorem tax, which

Japan’s Sigma makes its own cameras. But it’s far better known as a manufacturer of third-party lenses for more popular camera manufacturers such as Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax. Its new ultra-wide angle lens, the Sigma 12-24mm 4.5-5.6 DG

As consumers eagerly await Nokia’s first Microsoft Windows Phone 7-based handsets later this year, it has become de rigueur to assume the ageing Symbian operating system the Finnish company has relied on for so long will soon be consigned to the

Google will from today begin offering navigation support for the SA version of Google Maps. Google Maps Navigation (beta) will be available on phones running Android 1.6 or higher. There’s no word yet on when it will come to other smartphone platforms

The TechCentral team brings you a special edition of the TalkCentral podcast this week in which we interview communications minister Roy Padayachie about growth and job creation in SA’s technology industry. We poll the minister on a plan

Seacom on Monday demonstrated new “five times 100Gbit/s-per-wave” fibre technology (500Gbit/s in total) as well as its new fibre connection between Teraco’s Johannesburg data centre and Seacom’s submarine cable landing station in

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has warned that Telkom’s insistence on bundling its broadband data service with a compulsory voice service may mean that the company is “acting in a way that contravenes SA’s new

Web Africa is the latest Internet service provider to slash the cost of hosting websites in SA, introducing uncapped hosting options on shared servers starting at R19/month for 50MB of disk space and unlimited bandwidth. Historically, hosting websites

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) of SA on Monday defended its ability to manage the national opt-out registry the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) requires after coming under extensive fire last week. CEO Brian Mdluli says the organisation