Already under pressure to create jobs and growth while clinging to power, China’s Communist Party faces a growing headache from internet users.
Political parties are taking a page out of the Obama campaign playbook. For the first time in South Africa, they’re using technology to woo voters.
Six in 10 people around the world now have cellphone subscriptions, with developing countries accounting for about two-thirds of the phones in use.
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/ 10 February 2009
The costs award against Altech was justified, the Competition Tribunal said on Monday.
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/ 8 February 2009
Lloyd Gedye reports on why 2009 is the year of the internet in SA.
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/ 13 January 2009
The US Congress is launching official YouTube channels where members of the House and Senate can create videos of floor speeches or hearings.
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/ 13 January 2009
Chinese authorities defended their internet censorship practices on Tuesday after a rights group accused them of cracking down.
The wall between televisions and computers is crumbling and internet pioneer Yahoo! is swinging a virtual hammer.
Wars have always been waged on all sorts of fronts. They have also, of course, always been about words.
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/ 20 December 2008
Breaks in three submarine cables that link Europe and the Middle East disrupted internet and international telephone services in Egypt on Friday.
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/ 12 December 2008
In the run-up to the 2009 elections SA political parties are using the internet and its tools to encourage a political conversation among voters.
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/ 4 December 2008
SA consumers can expect huge savings in telephone and internet costs in the next 12 to 18 months thanks to the launch of a second transatlantic cable.
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/ 4 December 2008
The number of internet users in South Africa has increased at the fastest rate since 2001, according to a study released on Thursday.
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/ 26 November 2008
Value Added Network Services operators face another potential setback in their battle to compete equitably within the SA telecoms industry.
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/ 28 October 2008
Does teaching computer hacking skills at university boost net security or set up students for a life of crime? asks Jackie Kemp.
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/ 21 October 2008
Joost, an internet television website from the inventors of Skype, has received a technical facelift.
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/ 21 October 2008
Google provides insight into the web-search habits of South Africans and users around the world, writes Craig Rodney.
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/ 20 October 2008
The fifth estate is a grouping that is slowly growing both in readership and respectability.
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/ 15 October 2008
Experts have long known it is easier to lie in writing than in real life, where deception is made more difficult by physical prompts.
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/ 13 October 2008
MySpace on Monday unleashed a tool to let small operators with tight budgets easily target online advertising to preferred demographics.
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/ 13 October 2008
With the credit crunch, the internet is tempting more people to save money by having a go at fixing things themselves.
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/ 13 October 2008
Jack Schofield meets Vint Cerf, the "father of the internet", and finds out what he thinks about net neutrality, spam and abuse of the web.
A British couple who met on a dating website turned out to be neighbours who had lived only a few houses apart for 17 years.
Bank-related internet crime is the fastest-growing crime in the world, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre said on Thursday.
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/ 26 September 2008
When Merlin Mann is on the go and needs to access his computer information he steps into the cloud.
After all, lots of people know that the world wide web came out of Cern, which is home once again to a particle collider project.
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/ 22 September 2008
Google’s new Chrome web browser is being hailed as a game-changer. Does that mean you should download it right now and spend the time to learn it?
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/ 21 September 2008
An Australian company this week launched a free tool it says offers web browsers a world-first opportunity to view the internet in three dimensions.
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/ 20 September 2008
The internet got smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words.
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/ 13 September 2008
The computer-chip industry on Friday celebrated the 50th birthday of the integrated circuit, a breakthrough that set the stage for the internet age.
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/ 6 September 2008
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is to release his new film via the internet for free as a gesture to fans, he said in a statement on Friday.
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/ 4 September 2008
Google’s new web browser does much of what a browser needs to do these days, but falls short of Google’s goals.