South Africa, Page 114
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Mon, June 10th, 14:04 · Richard Cutcher
iROKOtv moving offline in SA with DVD catalogue
iROKO Partners will offer “offline” services to South Africans wishing to watch Nollywood movies by providing a DVD catalogue containing the ten most popular Nigerian productions. → Read more
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Mon, June 10th, 12:54 · Richard Cutcher
Airtime cost protest set for Cape Town
The Right2Know Campaign has organised a march in Cape Town on Wednesday to heighten the pressure on mobile operators to reduce the cost of airtime and data in South Africa. → Read more
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Mon, June 10th, 12:38 · Richard Cutcher
MTN ends three-year-old data packages
MTN has ditched the Uncapped Lite and Uncapped Pro data packages it has run in South Africa since 2010 in favour of new price plans. → Read more
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Mon, June 10th, 11:45 · Brandon Gregory
Telkom Mobile launches BlackBerry Q10 in South Africa
Telkom Mobile has launched the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone, the latest device with a physical keyboard from the Canadian manufacturer, in South Africa. → Read more
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Mon, June 10th, 11:08 · Paul Adepoju
2go Android app gets 50,000 downloads and 4.3 rating in one week
Mobile messaging app 2go has revealed its Android version has had 50,000 downloads within a week of its soft launch and been consistently optimised. → Read more
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Mon, June 10th, 09:13 · Nanine Steenkamp
BB programme opens for SA female scholars
The BlackBerry Scholars Program has opened global applications for South African female scholars with the goal of encouraging more gender equality in Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. → Read more
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Mon, June 10th, 09:09 · Brandon Gregory
ICASA warns licensees against withholding pricing information
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has issued a warning to the country’s four largest mobile operators it will not tolerate their refusal to make available information pertaining to the pricing of data, SMS and voice. → Read more
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Mon, June 10th, 08:10 · Richard Cutcher
Telkom’s maintenance to blame for massive downtime
The countrywide blackout of ADSL services for many South Africans has been put down to Telkom's maintenance work. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 15:34 · Brandon Gregory
Phish5 designed for companies to phish their own employees
Phish5, a South African software as a service product created by Thinkst, is allowing companies to send phishing emails to their employees to test how prone they are to cyber attacks. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 15:26 · Nanine Steenkamp
Wikipedia films Sinenjongo learners
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation (NPO) running Wikipedia, recently filmed the Joe Slovo Grade 12 class for a documentary, featuring requests for free online access to aid in their school work. Despite the letter-based request being sent in 2012, no response had been made until Victor Grigas, Wikimedia foundation storyteller and fundraiser, came across […] → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 15:02 · Tom Jackson
Telkom confirms ADSL downtime, affects SA ISPs
Telkom has confirmed ADSL downtime has occurred across various regions of South Africa today, though it is yet to ascertain the reasons behind it. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 14:52 · Richard Cutcher
ICASA turns attention to Sentech
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has warned Sentech increased competition regulations could be heading their way in a bid to tackle its market dominance. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 14:21 · Nanine Steenkamp
Affordable Choice launches tablet competition
South African e-commerce startup Affordable Choice (AC) has launched a competition as part of its online shop opening promotions. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 14:14 · Brandon Gregory
GeoSpark launched on BlackBerry World today
Location Based Media’s free application GeoSpark is now available on BlackBerry World after a six month delay, with Android compatibility expected soon. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 14:06 · Richard Cutcher
MapIT swaps Times Live for TomTom
Global location specialists TomTom have agreed a ZAR37.5 million (US$3.7 million) deal with Times Media Group (TMG) to buy a 51 per cent stake in South African MAP Integration Technologies (MapIT). → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 13:16 · Kamau Mbote
Huawei spends US$283 million on local purchases in ESA region
Huawei spent US$283 million on local purchases in the East and Southern Africa region in 2012, creating thousands of work opportunities. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 12:45 · Richard Cutcher
ICASA challenges ISPs to halve broadband costs
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has challenged internet service providers (ISPs) to raise their game to bring down costs, telling them “if a startup can do it, why can’t you?”. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 10:43 · Brandon Gregory
City of Johannesburg to get Top Level Domain name
The City of Johannesburg is soon to have its own domain name .joburg, following the success of the initial evaluation phase of the new Top Level Domains (gTLD) project. → Read more
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Fri, June 7th, 08:58 · Brandon Gregory
DA donates ZAR1 million to OUTA
The Democratic Alliance (DA) announced today it will contribute ZAR1 million (US$101,000) towards the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance’s (OUTA) pending court case against e-tolling. → Read more
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Thu, June 6th, 15:16 · Richard Cutcher
Pule to get hands on with SOCs, revised set-top box plans imminent
Communications minister Dina Pule has fired a warning to public enterprises, including the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and Sentech, as she bids to deliver on her policy commitments. → Read more
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