Until now the largest social network in South Africa, Mxit, which claims to have 7,4m active monthly users, has been knocked from the top spot by Facebook, with an estimated 9,4m active users, a number the researchers say may actually be on the conservative side
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There is space in South Africa’s telecommunications industry for only two mobile infrastructure operators providing next-generation wireless broadband using 4G/LTE technology, a senior industry executive has said, but a top analyst is not convinced
New communications minister Yunus Carrim has boldly vowed to go where every minister before him has tried and failed: increase Internet penetration and cut the cost of communicating in South Africa. The number of Internet users in the country has
South African billionaire, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, revealed on Monday that his company, Canonical, wants to raise US$32m by means of crowdfunding to build a mobile phone called the Ubuntu Edge that will have the computing clout to serve as a desktop replacement. But if
Telkom’s share price has rallied by more than 40% in less than two months, despite a run of bad news from the company. Analysts are buoyed by the change of leadership and some of the decisions taken subsequently, but suggest that without further clarity on Telkom’s long-term strategy, the stock gains may be
Anyone who spends any degree of time on the Internet will tell you that the first sign of a scam is a company with no website and no contact numbers. Try looking up information on Cherry Online Design, Ikamva ICT and Jugganaut – the members of the joint venture that won the multimillion-rand
The Free State provincial government’s controversial website development may have cost it the region of R100m, according to the tender award document, which TechCentral has in its possession. This comes after Free State director-general Elzabe Rockman on Monday
On Tuesday, at events in New York and London, Taiwan’s HTC is expected to take the wraps off the M7, its newest Android “superphone”, and a device that must take on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4. For HTC, it’s all on the line. In the face of juggernaut Samsung Electronics
Over the weekend, the Sunday Independent reported that President Jacob Zuma plans to axe communications minister Dina Pule, after it was discovered that her alleged boyfriend, Phosane Mngqibisa, benefited improperly from the ICT Indaba in Cape Town
BlackBerry’s new devices are too data intensive to use the company’s flat rate – and heavily compressed – BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), provoking concern from South African BlackBerry lovers that it will be much more expensive to use the