Source: MyBroadband First National Bank (FNB) suffered an outage on Wednesday, with customers complaining that they could not pay with their cards or withdraw money from ATMs. Others reported online banking issues and problems with the FNB app. Posts have flooded in...
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Elon Musk buys Twitter for R690bn
By Kyle Venktess for IOL In one of the most controversial social network acquisitions, billionaire-businessman Elon Musk took sole ownership of Twitter on Monday night – meaning the platform could soon see changes. This brings control of one of the most...
Critical security flaw affected 100 Lenovo laptop models
By Ravie Lakshmanan for The Hacker News Three high-impact Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) security vulnerabilities have been discovered impacting various Lenovo consumer laptop models, enabling malicious actors to deploy and execute firmware implants on...
South Africans hate their cellular network providers
Source: MyBroadband Research from DataEQ, in partnership with Deloitte Africa, shows that telecoms remains South Africa’s least-liked industry. The latest South African Telecommunications Sentiment Index revealed that the sector ranked last for the second consecutive...
Shopping centres fill up again despite online boom
By Londiwe Buthelezi for News24 The number of “ghost town” malls, ubiquitous throughout South Africa in the past two years, is declining as the demand for retail space strengthens. According to the FNB Property Broker Survey for the first quarter of 2022,...
Pandemic boom for Zoom, Netflix falters
By Noel Randewich and Sinéad Carew for Reuters The collapse of Netflix’s stock on Wednesday after the company reported its first loss of customers in a decade is the latest drastic sign that Wall Street is abandoning streaming services and other pandemic winners...
MTN, Vodacom networks hit by floods
By Sibongile Khumalo for News24 The torrential rains that have battered parts of KwaZulu-Natal since Saturday have shut down 500 MTN network sites in the region, the cellphone company said on Tuesday. “The flooding in the KZN region has caused power outages at...
Vodacom wins leave to appeal in Please Call Me case
By Jan Vermeulen for MyBroadband Vodacom has won leave to appeal a High Court judgement in the Please Call Me case on the grounds that the judge may have applied a legal principle called the Bekker test incorrectly. Judge Wendy Hughes granted Vodacom leave to appeal...
Global technology supply chains still in serious trouble
Source: Bloomberg More than 30 Taiwanese companies including Pegatron Corp and Macbook maker Quanta Computer Inc. have now halted production in the electronics hubs of eastern China to comply with local Covid-related restrictions, spelling more trouble for an already...
Do more with your WhatsApp channel
By Ryan Falkenberg, co-CEO of CLEVVA Digital customer service channels have evolved rapidly over the past two years, prompted by work from home and lockdown requirements. Part of this evolution has been the much stronger emergence of WhatsApp as a customer service...
DStv must pay to show SABC channels
By Myles Illidge for MyBroadband The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has given the SABC the green light to charge pay-TV services for its free-to-air broadcasts. Subscription broadcasting services (SBSs) must carry specific channels from...
Data bundles could last up to 6 months
By News24 Mobile data users may soon no longer have to worry about their data bundles expiring, following regulation amendments by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa). In its Draft End-user and Subscriber Service Charter Amendment...
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