Web search giant Google is a mounting a fresh assault on Facebook and Twitter with a new social networking tool, Buzz, that it plans to begin offering to users of its Gmail e-mail service over the next few weeks. Google has struggled to gain a strong foothold in the social networking space.
Eskom has suspended four employees who participated in a Carte Blanche programme on the company’s employment practices, the company said…
Vodacom plans a share buy-back programme aimed at minority shareholders who own fewer than 500 of the cellphone group’s shares.…
Briefly, about 12 years ago, Jan Baan was a billionaire, at least on paper. He’d built his company, Baan Co,…
MTN SA has joined rivals Cell C and Vodacom in announcing that it plans to build an advanced 3G network…
High-capacity undersea cables and long-awaited cheap, reliable and fast broadband connectivity bring with them some challenges. For a long time, all technology planning in business in SA has been geared towards operating in a bandwidth-constrained economy. Not all businesses are in a position to take advantage
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) wants communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda to remove the board of state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech,…
Most annual reports are turgid slabs of text, documents that only financial analysts have the stamina to read. Not so…
WirelessG is the latest Internet service provider to join the escalating SA broadband price war. The company has slashed the…
For people who don’t use Windows, the day that Microsoft’s grip on the desktop is broken can’t come soon enough. The reason is simple: the technical divide created by the dominance of one operating system means that people who choose to use something different face constant discrimination