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Mon, April 22nd, 09:51 · Brandon Gregory

DA: Nazir Alli, Sanral CEO reveals more toll-roads

Nazir Alli, chief executive officer (CEO) of the South African Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has revealed the agency has plans for the implementation of five new toll-roads in the country at a portfolio committee meeting. → Read more
Mon, April 22nd, 09:50 · Richard Cutcher

Alan Knott-Craig Sr drops merger hint

Cell C’s chief executive officer (CEO) Alan Knott-Craig has repeated the suggestion he made last year that the South African operator’s future may be reliant on joining forces with another major telecom. → Read more
Mon, April 22nd, 08:23 · Tom Jackson

SA man to sue police officer over Facebook photo

A South African man is to sue a high-ranking policewoman who allegedly posted a picture of his stepson on Facebook, accusing him of theft. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 15:32 · Nanine Steenkamp

Design expert says UX requires scientific approach

User experience (UX) should be approached as a science in measuring human behaviour, Indian design expert Srini Srinivasan said at an educational session in Cape Town, South Africa. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 14:51 · Brandon Gregory

Miles Ward: little teams with big results

Miles Ward, designer and developer for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and three-time technology startup entrepreneur, has said little teams can achieve colossal results. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 14:12 · Tom Jackson

MTN Anytime launched

MTN has launched its Anytime contract contract packages, offering more talk time, texts and browsing, in the latest installment in South Africa’s price war. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 13:57 · Richard Cutcher

Samsung and AlwaysOn partnership goes live

South Africa’s Samsung mobile and tablet users are now able to access more than 1,000 AlwaysOn Wi-Fi hotspots across the country after the service went live this week. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 13:54 · Richard Cutcher

Telkom shares drop in response to fine

Telkom’s share value on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has dropped after the part state-owned operator was fined ZAR449 million (US$49 million) by the Competition Tribunal. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 13:14 · Brandon Gregory

Developer community full of hobos, tramps and bums – Western Cape Labs’ Mike Jones

Mike Jones, of Western Cape Labs, has labelled some members of his audience at the Scale Conference, in Cape Town, “hobos, tramps and bums” as he described the life of a developer. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 13:06 · Brandon Gregory

South African startups held back by lack of venture capital – 2go

South African startups find it tough to obtain outside investment, according to 2go’s product strategist and business developer Peter Lockhart, who says the social network is proud of scaling without outside investment. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 12:06 · Brandon Gregory

2go’s feature phone market makes life “very difficult”

Peter Lockhart, product strategist and business developer at mobile-to-mobile social network 2go, has said designing for feature phones is “very difficult”. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 11:38 · Richard Cutcher

Cable theft hits Telkom customers

Thieves last night (Thursday) cut and removed several main Telkom cables, meaning more than 1,500 South African homes and businesses could be without their landline connections for a week. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 09:20 · Tom Jackson

Knott-Craig Sr threatens ICASA with legal action

Cell C chief executive officer (CEO) Alan Knott-Craig has threatened legal action against the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) unless it lowers mobile termination rates (MTRs) by the end of the year. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 07:32 · Brandon Gregory

Scaling Facebook with 1bn monthly users with “tens of thousands” of servers

Neil Blakey-Milner, a production engineer for Facebook's core systems, says Facebook’s construction of its own data centres is helping to scale the world’s largest social media site. → Read more
Fri, April 19th, 07:21 · Richard Cutcher

MTN boosted by US Supreme Court ruling

MTN Group has taken a positive step in its fight against accusations of bribery and using political influence in its bid to secure a telecoms licence in Iran. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 15:23 · Nanine Steenkamp

African entrepreneurial mindset needs reality check, says report

Philanthropic foundation Omidyar Network warned against an idealised African entrepreneurial mindset in its report released this morning (Friday) in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 15:11 · Brandon Gregory

RightShift’s Daniel Fiske tells entrepreneurs to be dumbest in company

Daniel Fiske, co-founder and chief technical officer at social gaming and casino game company RightShift, has unveiled his tips for startups, including only ever hiring people that are “smarter than you”. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 14:52 · HumanIPO

Open Letter: You do Africa a disservice by underestimating how far we’ve come

Duncan Arthur, an independent payments, mobile and African banking expert, has written an open letter calling on primarily non-African conference organisers to drop their obsession with M-Pesa and begin to look at the bigger picture on the continent. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:35 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mobile, cloud key themes at SA TechEd conference

The Microsoft-driven TechEd conference this week in South Africa focuses on the roles of mobile and cloud in the tech space as a driver of African economy and investments. → Read more
Thu, April 18th, 13:16 · Nanine Steenkamp

Microsoft Surface coming to SA

Microsoft says its newest tablet, Surface, will be launching in South Africa, as it enters the market beyond PCs. → Read more