Feb 8, 2013
Virgin Mobile South Africa has launched a free SMS promotion for all prepaid customers. Prepaid customers will receive free SMSes whenever they recharge, which can be used to text anyone, on any network at anytime. Prepaid customers will receive free SMSes whenever...
Feb 7, 2013
A recent hack on the SABC news site is being touted as part of the opening salvo in an Anonymous attack on South African sites known as Operation South Africa (#OpSAfrica). Although it’s unclear whether the operation is being carried out by Anonymous or a local...
Feb 7, 2013
Microsoft and Symantec have brought down a global cybercrime operation, the Bamital botnet, but shutting down the servers at the heart of the botnet. PCs infected by the malware that linked them to the botnet were temporarily unable to search the Web, and the software...
Feb 7, 2013
CTI Education Group will become the first higher education institution in South Africa to offer its students tablet computers loaded with prescribed textbooks, at no extra cost. More than 2 000 who will start their degree studies at CTI in January will receive the new...
Feb 7, 2013
MTN has lit the fibre optic network from Germiston to Durban. The National Long Distance (NLD) consortium – consisting of MTN, Vodacom, Neotel and SANRAL (South African National Road Agency Limited) – completed the trenching of almost 700km of fibre optic...
Feb 7, 2013
Building of the installation sites for the “northern ring” of state-owned Broadband Infraco’s new national network has been completed by Plessey. Broadband Infraco was founded with the purpose of improving market efficiency in the long distance connectivity segment by...
