Cell C has introduced new mobile broadband promotions, effectively cutting the cost of some of its products in half. The new promotions, which will be available until the end of July, cut the prices of two post-paid data options and one prepaid data package
The National Consumer Commission head is taking the trade & industry department to court after claiming she was effectively dismissed when her position was advertised. Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi claimed she only learnt of her contract’s termination
SA has joined the international Jive radio astronomy research institute, the National Research Foundation (NRF) said on Sunday.
This marked a new level of partnership between Europe and South Africa in science, said NRF deputy CEO Gansen Pillay. “It is
State-controlled Broadband Infraco is set to replace its Siemens-built legacy infrastructure over the next five years and has just closed the tender process for the project. The fibre operator and wholesaler says a decision on the winning bidder for the multibillion-rand project should be decided within the next 60
Confronting mortality is a deeply personal quest that does not usually sit high on one’s to-do list. Death is scary so we avoid thinking about it. At some point, though, pragmatism usually wins. Those who can afford to call their lawyers and those who cannot pull out a notebook. It is decided: who inherits
As a software architect and technologist I am actively involved in interrogating and analysing software products that cross my desk on a daily basis. It’s part of who I am. Download, play, crit, throw away or publicly announce the brilliant product that some propeller-head has created in his garage in a small town off
There’s a lot to poke sticks at on this week’s ZA Tech Show as Arthur Goldstuck, Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle discuss BlackBerry 10, iTunes in SA, the Samsung Galaxy S3, Huawei’s new Android tablet, First National Bank’s geo-payments system, and much more
Telkom has begun a multibillion-rand network upgrade to improve the performance of broadband infrastructure and even to support fibre to the home eventually, but with fears uptake might be slow, could streaming video services provide the impetus to drive demand? Gabrielle Gauthey, executive vice-president of public affairs
The West African Cable System (Wacs), the latest submarine cable to land on African shores, has arrived, offering SA operators 500Gbit/s of capacity at launch. The system, which has a design capacity of 5,1Tbit/s, makes use of both 10Gbit/s and 40Gbit/s technology on different segments and will
Almost 140 Absa employees are being forced to resign from the company in order to circumvent a mass retrenchment, trade union Solidarity said on Thursday. “Employees at Absa were notified by e-mail this week that they will be retrenched on 9 June. This came in spite of Absa’s continued denial that
