Naspers is taking aim at the online classifieds market, launching Kalahariads.net, a completely free classified advertising service the media group hopes will allow it eventually to dominate the field in SA

Broadcasters will know officially this Friday what decision government has taken regarding the standard SA will adopt for digital terrestrial television. Communications minister

Vodacom Business has begun rolling out fibre-optic networks in smaller Western Cape towns, including Paarl, Stellenbosch, Somerset West and Wellington

After almost two years of being led by acting CEOs, the embattled State IT Agency (Sita) has appointed Blake Mosley-Lefatola to the leadership position

Imagine the next time you’re standing at a checkout point at the supermarket. Imagine paying for your groceries simply by bringing your mobile phone next to a payment terminal and having the money debited

It’s like a plot out of a spy novel or the lost Stieg Larsson book: a powerful government issues a secret subpoena to an Internet service for access to private information, so that it can pursue a case against foreign nationals for leaking embarrassing

Drive around SA city streets and you’ll soon notice Telkom’s green and blue distribution cabinets, like the one pictured above near TechCentral’s offices in Johannesburg. Soon distribution cabinets

Fast-growing international deal-of-the-day website Groupon has acquired SA e-commerce provider Twangoo. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed

The backers of a new social networking site, Mobilitate, hope to help stem the tide of poor service delivery in SA municipalities, help communities keep track of crime and keep abreast of developments in their neighbourhoods

SA is to get a Wikipedia chapter. Among other things, the chapter, the first in Africa, will encourage translation of the free online encyclopaedia into local languages. A group of local volunteers has begun working on making Wikipedia