The Wireless Access Providers' Association (WAPA) feels that the introduction of Lite-Licensing, which is currently being trialled and employed by progressive institutions internationally, as an alternative wireless spectrum management approach, could benefit South Africa.
13 Dec 2012 08:39
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The tighter controls over talk shows introduced at the SABC this week have the alarm bells ringing, reports
BDlive, and proof of how bad news travels is the fact that news that local SA news channel eNCA had to apologise for using an old clip dealing with comments on Nelson Mandela, has been picked up the
Times of India.
Mail & Guardian reports countries - the US and China to name but two - are at odds over laws governing the internet, and
IOL reports on how a UK study finds that playing violent video games can make people more aggressive.
13 Dec 2012 08:28
Manufacturing production in SA bounced back in October‚ increasing by 2.5% year-on-year (y/y) after a revised 1.7% (1.1%) year-on-year decrease in September‚ data released by Statistics SA on Tuesday (11 December) showed
13 Dec 2012 07:42When it comes to a secure IT environment, managerial mindset often poses the biggest threat, explains Marthinus Engelbrecht, CEO of NEWORDER Industries, a local technology company that provides specialised enterprise risk management and pen-testing services to companies in Africa and abroad.
13 Dec 2012 07:03
Unmanned ocean gliders are collecting data 1,000m below the surface of the Southern Ocean and sending it back to climate scientists and oceanographers.
12 Dec 2012 10:32
The opening of two new Vodacom outlets in Jozini and Manguzi this week will see communities in the Umkhanyakude District Municipality gain unprecedented access to telecommunications and connectivity.
12 Dec 2012 07:33
The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) announced South Africa's very first Student Cluster Challenge winners. The glittering awards ceremony was held at the Durban International Convention Centre recently.
12 Dec 2012 07:30
[Thabiso Mochiko] Telkom's future is in the hands of delegates to the African National Congress's (ANC's) electoral conference in Mangaung‚ who will weigh up the options the Department of Communications has proposed for reviving the company‚ according to Communications Minister Dina Pule.
11 Dec 2012 06:53A hacker has claimed responsibility for disrupting SA's Department of Social Development's website and hacking those of the National Planning Commission and the National Population Unit.
11 Dec 2012 06:29Backups may be worthless if they're not tested - and the consequences could be dire, especially in virtualised environments.
10 Dec 2012 11:56
Although there has been a dramatic surge in the amount of international bandwidth that is available in South Africa these days - courtesy of the SAT-2, SAT-3/SAFE, SEACOM and EASSy submarine fibre optic cables - backhaul and last-mile connectivity is still a scarce commodity.
10 Dec 2012 11:35[Riaan Pieterson] Voice over IP. What's left to say? You can save money. Lots of it. It's great for moves and changes, super easy, even the receptionist can do them. Sure. Tell me something I don't know.
10 Dec 2012 09:54 
Local company Future Mobile Technology (FMT) has developed an Android application,
Netsurfer Scholar that will give users online access to material they need for school.
10 Dec 2012 08:30South Africa's plan to train three times as many engineers as it does at present is one of the reasons the world's largest engineering design software company set up an academy in the country in November.
10 Dec 2012 06:54
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