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Source: Supplied. FNB chief executive officer, Jacques Celliers.

FNB Connect named best digital MVNO in the world

Can Huawei survive the US sanctions?

Can Huawei survive the US sanctions?

By Jean-Paul Michel Larçon 3 Sep 2020

Ericsson to build its first fully-automated smart factory

Ericsson to build its first fully-automated smart factory

5 Jul 2019

Report reveals 5G uptake even faster than expected

Report reveals 5G uptake even faster than expected

14 Jun 2019

Boeing-built satellite to enable global high-speed broadband network

1 Sep 2015

The impact of communication technology on family

The impact of communication technology on family

24 Aug 2015

AOL signs off after 30-year connection

AOL signs off after 30-year connection

13 May 2015

Verizon buys faded internet pioneer AOL for US$4.4bn

Verizon buys faded internet pioneer AOL for US$4.4bn

13 May 2015

Americans eye ways to skirt online snooping: survey

Americans eye ways to skirt online snooping: survey

20 Mar 2015

Fierce battle looms on US 'open Internet' rules

Fierce battle looms on US 'open Internet' rules

25 Feb 2015

Monster collision of 15 Monster Trends in 2015

Monster collision of 15 Monster Trends in 2015

Naseem Javed 19 Dec 2014

US village is cell phone free and loving it

US village is cell phone free and loving it

17 Nov 2014

Pew's Lee Ranie believes that US businesses and state institutions will be under persistent attack from cyber-criminals and individuals will face growing attempts to steal money or personal data. Image:

Warning of major hacking attack on the USA

30 Oct 2014

Twitter's Anthony Noto blames the fall in users on content changes but analysts don't seem to agree and have downgraded their share prices views on the company. Image: Twitter

Time spent on Twitter falls prompting share price drop

29 Oct 2014

Amazon's streaming device, the Fire Stick is being sold for $39 seeking to gain market share that offers a wide number of devices for streaming services already. Image:

Amazon's Fire Stick streams Netflix, Hulu and others

28 Oct 2014

The loss of credit card information and the fraudulent theft from banks after the card information had been stolen is the crime that most people in the US fear. Image: Stock Image:

Credit card hacking is US's top crime fear

28 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi says prices of the Xbox One without Kinect motion detection will drop to $349 for the festive season in a bid too boost sales as Sony's PS4 to gain market share from gamers. Image:

A $50 price cut for Xbox consoles without Kinect

28 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Tuula Rytila says that the Nokia name will be dropped from Lumia smartphones but will still be used on the cheaper phones offered by the company. Image:

Nokia name dropped from Lumia smartphones

27 Oct 2014

Vivek Wadhwa, a Research Fellow at Stanford University says that technology has the ability to examine problems from all different sides, virtually simultaneously making it useful in efforts to stem the spread of the Ebola virus. Image:

Big data used as tool to track Ebola

27 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Satya Nadella says the investment in cloud services and the enthusiasm of users has substantiall boosted it revenue from this division. Image: Wikipedia

Microsoft's earning are pie in the cloud

24 Oct 2014

Amazon's Jeff Bezos holds up the company's Fire smartphone but sales have failed to produce sustainable profits for the company. Image:

Amazon's loss reaches $437m but outlook is confusing

24 Oct 2014

Targeted malware attacks, mainly against Android phones have increased tenfold with 588,000 users worldwide being hacked by criminals after their money. Image:

Hackers targeting mobile phones for banking information

23 Oct 2014

About 92% of US people believe that social media networks give people the right to be more abusive than they would be in a social environment. Image:

Pew says online harassment levels high in US

23 Oct 2014

Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa got stuck in a chimney after she allegedly tried to break into a house of a man she met online. Image:

Woman stuck in chimney after online dating goes sour

22 Oct 2014

GlobalFoundries has bought IBM's semi-conductor business and will be paid $1.5bn for taking over the patents, intellectual property and manufacturing facilities. Image:

IBM sells chip unit but bleeds money

21 Oct 2014

Facebook has unveiled new software, based on the location of the device, that asks for a status update and allows the user to click a button with a message saying "I'm safe" or similar and send it to all their friends and family. Image:

Facebook offers 'safety check' for disaster areas

20 Oct 2014

Google's Patrick Pichette confirmed that profits for the company were down partly as a result of lower advertising revenue generated by the widespread use of smartphones.. Image:

Google profits fall as ad revenue declines

20 Oct 2014

Alleged money-laundering kingpin, Arthur Budovsky has pleaded not guilty to running an underground money-laundering agency for criminals throughout the world. Image:

Underground bank founder pleads not guilty

15 Oct 2014

A flaw in Windows software allowed Russian hackers to spy on NATO, various European governments, energy and telecommunications companies and US academic institutions according to researchers at iSight Partners. A patch for the flaw will be released by Microsoft this week. Image:

Windows flaws let Russian hackers spy on NATO

15 Oct 2014

GTAT has asked the US Bankruptcy Court to release it from what it calls burdensome contracts with Apple that it is unable to fulfil. Image:

GTAT wants court to cancel Apple's sapphire contract

14 Oct 2014

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Source: Supplied. FNB chief executive officer, Jacques Celliers.

FNB Connect named best digital MVNO in the world

13 Jun 2022

Can Huawei survive the US sanctions?

Can Huawei survive the US sanctions?

Jean-Paul Michel Larçon 3 Sep 2020

Ericsson to build its first fully-automated smart factory

Ericsson to build its first fully-automated smart factory

5 Jul 2019

Report reveals 5G uptake even faster than expected

Report reveals 5G uptake even faster than expected

14 Jun 2019

Boeing-built satellite to enable global high-speed broadband network

1 Sep 2015

The impact of communication technology on family

The impact of communication technology on family

24 Aug 2015

AOL signs off after 30-year connection

AOL signs off after 30-year connection

13 May 2015

Verizon buys faded internet pioneer AOL for US$4.4bn

Verizon buys faded internet pioneer AOL for US$4.4bn

13 May 2015

Americans eye ways to skirt online snooping: survey

Americans eye ways to skirt online snooping: survey

20 Mar 2015

Fierce battle looms on US 'open Internet' rules

Fierce battle looms on US 'open Internet' rules

25 Feb 2015

Monster collision of 15 Monster Trends in 2015

Monster collision of 15 Monster Trends in 2015

Naseem Javed 19 Dec 2014

US village is cell phone free and loving it

US village is cell phone free and loving it

17 Nov 2014

Pew's Lee Ranie believes that US businesses and state institutions will be under persistent attack from cyber-criminals and individuals will face growing attempts to steal money or personal data. Image:

Warning of major hacking attack on the USA

30 Oct 2014

Twitter's Anthony Noto blames the fall in users on content changes but analysts don't seem to agree and have downgraded their share prices views on the company. Image: Twitter

Time spent on Twitter falls prompting share price drop

29 Oct 2014

Amazon's streaming device, the Fire Stick is being sold for $39 seeking to gain market share that offers a wide number of devices for streaming services already. Image:

Amazon's Fire Stick streams Netflix, Hulu and others

28 Oct 2014

The loss of credit card information and the fraudulent theft from banks after the card information had been stolen is the crime that most people in the US fear. Image: Stock Image:

Credit card hacking is US's top crime fear

28 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi says prices of the Xbox One without Kinect motion detection will drop to $349 for the festive season in a bid too boost sales as Sony's PS4 to gain market share from gamers. Image:

A $50 price cut for Xbox consoles without Kinect

28 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Tuula Rytila says that the Nokia name will be dropped from Lumia smartphones but will still be used on the cheaper phones offered by the company. Image:

Nokia name dropped from Lumia smartphones

27 Oct 2014

Vivek Wadhwa, a Research Fellow at Stanford University says that technology has the ability to examine problems from all different sides, virtually simultaneously making it useful in efforts to stem the spread of the Ebola virus. Image:

Big data used as tool to track Ebola

27 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Satya Nadella says the investment in cloud services and the enthusiasm of users has substantiall boosted it revenue from this division. Image: Wikipedia

Microsoft's earning are pie in the cloud

24 Oct 2014

Amazon's Jeff Bezos holds up the company's Fire smartphone but sales have failed to produce sustainable profits for the company. Image:

Amazon's loss reaches $437m but outlook is confusing

24 Oct 2014

Targeted malware attacks, mainly against Android phones have increased tenfold with 588,000 users worldwide being hacked by criminals after their money. Image:

Hackers targeting mobile phones for banking information

23 Oct 2014

About 92% of US people believe that social media networks give people the right to be more abusive than they would be in a social environment. Image:

Pew says online harassment levels high in US

23 Oct 2014

Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa got stuck in a chimney after she allegedly tried to break into a house of a man she met online. Image:

Woman stuck in chimney after online dating goes sour

22 Oct 2014

GlobalFoundries has bought IBM's semi-conductor business and will be paid $1.5bn for taking over the patents, intellectual property and manufacturing facilities. Image:

IBM sells chip unit but bleeds money

21 Oct 2014

Facebook has unveiled new software, based on the location of the device, that asks for a status update and allows the user to click a button with a message saying "I'm safe" or similar and send it to all their friends and family. Image:

Facebook offers 'safety check' for disaster areas

20 Oct 2014

Google's Patrick Pichette confirmed that profits for the company were down partly as a result of lower advertising revenue generated by the widespread use of smartphones.. Image:

Google profits fall as ad revenue declines

20 Oct 2014

Alleged money-laundering kingpin, Arthur Budovsky has pleaded not guilty to running an underground money-laundering agency for criminals throughout the world. Image:

Underground bank founder pleads not guilty

15 Oct 2014

A flaw in Windows software allowed Russian hackers to spy on NATO, various European governments, energy and telecommunications companies and US academic institutions according to researchers at iSight Partners. A patch for the flaw will be released by Microsoft this week. Image:

Windows flaws let Russian hackers spy on NATO

15 Oct 2014

GTAT has asked the US Bankruptcy Court to release it from what it calls burdensome contracts with Apple that it is unable to fulfil. Image:

GTAT wants court to cancel Apple's sapphire contract

14 Oct 2014

ICANN's Fade Chehade says that plans are going ahead to remove control of the internet domain names from the US Department of Commerce and involve a global group of 'stakeholders'. Image:

ICANN to be free from US control

14 Oct 2014

Newly-wed Brittany Maynard, 29, is not planning her own death after she was diagnosed with brain cancer. She has moved to Oregon that has a right-to-die law and plans to die on 1 November, before having to endure immense pain and the loss of dignity. Image:

Newly-wed with cancer plans her own death

13 Oct 2014

Wickr's Founder Nico Sell says that third-party apps opened the door to hackers who are believed to have illegally downloaded about a billion images of selfies that were supposed to self-destruct. Image:

Hackers steal Snapchat images offer them online

13 Oct 2014

Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella put his foot in his mouth when he told women to trust 'karma' to provide them with pay increases, causing outrage among women's rights groups. Image: Wikipedia

Nadella gaffe over pay raises women's ire

13 Oct 2014

Harvard's David Weinberger believes that superfast internet speeds will improve everything from education to long-distance medicine. Image: Wikipedia

Ultra-fast internet connections coming

10 Oct 2014

The FTC's Edith Ramirez insists that AT&T must refund consumers for illegal charges added to their bills for so-called premium services they did not want. Image: FTC

AT&T must pay $105m for unauthorised charges

9 Oct 2014

The CDT's Joseph Hall says that online voting is difficult to achieve because the identity of the voter must be confirmed but the vote must remain anonymous. Image: CDT

Online voting still some way off

9 Oct 2014

HP's Meg Whitman says that the division of the company will create two highly-focused companies that will benefit shareholders. Image: Wikipedia

Hewlett-Packard to separate into two divisions

7 Oct 2014

Apple's iPhone 6 prototype has attracted bids of $99,800 on eBay after the seller managed to get hold of a prototype phone that was sent directly to him. There is no certainty the phone works and, it seems, some people have more money than sense. Image: eBay

iPhone 6 prototype selling for $99,800 on eBay

7 Oct 2014

Adam Sandler has done a deal with Netflix to produce four movies exclusively for users of the streaming video service. Image: Wikipedia

Adam Sandler to make four movies for Netflix

3 Oct 2014