The great data roaming rip-off

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“Bill shock” is a growing problem for SA travellers. They go overseas, and, before they know it, they’ve run up a bill of thousands of rand without even making a phone call. The problem is, as with roaming voice charges, the mobile operators impose exorbitant fees for roaming data – in some cases, more than R100 000/GB. And with smartphones, which are constantly polling the network looking for updates to e-mail and other services, consumers can quickly run up monster-sized

Why fly?

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Why do people fly all over the world? In many cases it’s simply not necessary. And with interesting new videoconferencing technologies being developed, long-haul travel may eventually become the exception in business rather than the rule. It always amazes me how journalist colleagues

Row erupts over Blue IQ millions

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Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane’s spokesman would not be drawn on Wednesday on a Democratic Alliance complaint that board members of…

Local trio eyes online content gold

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An easy-to-use, simple and global micropayments system for publishers — it’s long been the missing link in the digital content game, especially for smaller publishers. Now, three SA Web entrepreneurs hope to plug the gap. Saul Kropman, Toby Kurien and Jason Kramer, who head up start-up technology business JTS Technology Concepts, have developed a micropayments system called Cred that they say will make it easy for publishers

Real-time traffic data is here

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There’s finally some good news for people tired of sitting in endless traffic jams. Altech has concluded a deal with the SABC that will allow Garmin and other manufacturers of GPS-based personal navigation devices (PNDs) to begin providing real-time traffic data to SA subscribers for the first time.

Vodacom makes its play for 4G spectrum

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Vodacom is ditching its 24,9% stake in iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) Holdings to increase its chances of being awarded radio frequency spectrum that will allow it to build a fourth-generation (4G) cellphone network. The mobile operator confirmed last week that it would sell WBS so as to be eligible