New cable: 100-fold bandwidth increase

JOHANNESBURG:- The announcement today of a formal agreement for the construction of the West Africa Cable System (WACS) by all South Africa’s major telecommunications operators sets the scene for total international bandwidth capacity coming into Africa growing more...

DA leads elections race on Internet

JOHANNESBURG:- An in-depth analysis of the Internet strategy of the main political parties in South Afrca’s 2009 general elections reveals that the Democratic Alliance has a substantial lead in online performance over its rivals. The African National Congress comes in...

April Fool hoaxes up by 372.5% on Internet

A new study reveals that, between 12.01am and 11.59am on April 1 2009, the number of April Fool’s Day hoaxes created by media organisations increased by approximately 372.5% over the same period in 2008. It is expected that the impact on business productivity of...