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
In a surprise move, Leo Apotheker is to step down as CEO of German business software giant SAP, less than a year after taking the job. He will be replaced by joint CEOs, SAP insiders Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe. The
Gartner analyst Will Hahn returns to the show this week, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle for a chat about Telkom’s recent Sat-3 troubles, interconnection, mobile data, Microsoft vs Google vs Apple and much more
Remember the first time you saw Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and it grabbed you by the scruff of…
The Congress of the People intends asking the Public Protector to investigate communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda’s business interests, a party…
Newly established state-owned telecommunications infrastructure provider, Broadband Infraco, will build five points of presence in SA’s major centres this year…