A dozen police officers apprehended a man who flew a radio-controlled mini helicopter over the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela was being treated on Friday. The “multicopter” had a rotating camera and was in the sky for a few minutes. A multicopter looks like a spider. It has several arms
Telkom is increasing fixed-line telephony charges and hiking the cost of line rental, despite the continued fall in the number of lines in service as consumers switch to mobile alternatives. The telecommunications operator is, however, leaving broadband subscription fees unchanged. Telkom claims the
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After 38 years as a publicly traded company, Altech will terminate its listing on the JSE on 20 August, provided it gets the support of shareholders for the move, the technology group, which is controlled by Altron, said on Thursday. Last month, Altron announced that it intended to buy out minority
After four years in the planning, the post office has unveiled Trust Centre, a digital authentication service that provides reassurance of legitimacy in digital transactions and communications. Trust Centre serves as a certificate authority (CA) that issues digital certificates and holds the public key infrastructure
Imagine opening a computer and finding that the manufacturer hasn’t bothered to provide multicoloured wires in the tangle of cords. Now multiply that tangle of grey wires by 100m, unplug the power cord — and then try to follow the signals from each keystroke through those wires to an answer on the computer screen
Free-to-air broadcasters SABC and e.tv are up in arms after an audit found the viewership figures provided by the South African Audience Research Foundation (Saarf) in recent years were allegedly inaccurate. The broadcasters claim this has cost them hundreds of millions of rand in lost advertising
Shares in MTN powered higher on Thursday afternoon after it lost to Norway’s Telenor and Qatar Telecom in the race to win one of two potentially highly lucrative licences on offer to build mobile telecommunications networks in Myanmar. In late afternoon trading, MTN
South African-headquartered mobile phone operator MTN has failed to secure an operating licence in Myanmar, it said on Thursday. The two licences that were up for grabs have gone to Norway’s Telenor and Qatar Telecom. MTN received notification from that country’s telecommunications operator
MTN has launched a new suite of cloud-based business software applications in partnership with Germany’s SAP and South African software services company Britehouse. MTN Business ERP solution offers SAP’s Business One cloud-based software to its business customers and to resellers
