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  • Security on the run


    The security risks that come with the proliferation of mobile devices, such as tablets, smartphones and laptops, are well documented. In...
  • International information security experts head for SA

    Moxie Marlinspike
    Marking its seventh year, the ITWeb IT Security Summit 2012 is bringing to South Africa some of the world...
  • Who can you trust?

    Guy Golan
    If cyber criminals have breached trusted technologies, trusted vendors, even your own common sense, can you trust anyone ...
  • Legislation to address cable theft

    Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba is proposing a legislative review to ensure harsher punishment for those found guilty of cable theft, as a measure to deal with the crime....
  • The week in review

    At Home


    The SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) has, for the second time, cancelled the hearings against the controversial e-tolling system at the National Consumer Commission (NCC). The complaint was brought against the system by the Demo...
  • MTN accused of infringing human rights

    Sifiso Dabengwa
    SA’s Democratic Alliance (DA) has formally requested that the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC)...
  • Mvelaserve expands into mast business

    Listed diverse outsourced business support services company, Mvelaserve, has bought 80% of cell mast maintenance provider, LTP Mast and Infrastructure, for R14 million, in a bid to grow its business activities and expand its margin....
  • Spectrum fee whammy for Telkom

    William Stucke
    Fixed-Lline operator Telkom is set to pay an additional R885 million in spectrum licence fees each year, after ...
  • IFCA Tech revenue slumps to zero

    JSE-listed IFCA Technologies, which reported a R33.9 million loss for the year to December, is moving away from being a technology provider into a diversified investment holding company....
  • Cosatu scores R24m from e-tolling


    Despite strongly contesting the controversial e-tolling system and the harsh impact it will have on motorists, the Congress of SA Tra...
  • ‘Illegal’ moratorium prompts legal action

    A moratorium on fibre installations on Johannesburg’s East Rand, imposed by the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) last month, is still raising the ire of affected parties, and legal proceedings are afoot....
  • Cell C bites into Apple

    SA’s third cellphone operator is set to have Apple products on its network in the near future. This is according to the company’s new CEO, Vodacom founder Alan Knott-Craig Snr, who made a statement alluding to the imminent introduction of Apple’s po...
  • Ex-Square One chairman heads to court

    The former chairman of liquidated Square One, Garth Coetser, will appear in court later this year on charges of tax fraud....
  • Bytes deal gets green light

    The Competition Tribunal approved Bytes Technology’s buyout of Unisys Africa....
  • Tribunal rips away MTN’s ‘corporate veil’

    Mamodupi Mohlala
    The National Consumer Tribunal (NCT) recently handed down its first ruling on a matter under the Consumer P...
  • Neotel customer base up, despite tension

    Despite what insiders are calling renewed tension within Neotel’s management team, SA’s second fixed-line operator has more than doubled its consumer base this financial year, reaching 100 000 customers....
  • Consumerisation of the enterprise

    Andrei Migatchev
    While writing this article and closing off the discussion on enterprise mobility, I stumbled upon a very in...
  • IBM gets SKA tender


    IBM and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Astron, have been granted a €32.9 million tender to research extremely fast, bu...
  • Wise Tablets now available

    The low-cost localised tablets that were first announced in November last year, are now officially available in SA....
  • Jasco buys ARC Telecoms

    Pete da Silva
    JSE-lsited electronics company Jasco has bought ARC Telecoms for an undisclosed amount, the company says in a sta...