Willington Ngwepe is new Icasa CEO
The council of communications regulator Icasa has appointed Willington Ngwepe as its new CEO, replacing the suspended Pakamile Pongwana who quit under a cloud in August. Ngwepe, who
Dropbox introduces new pricing tiers
Dropbox has introduced a new cloud-based file-sharing option for individual business users and a new feature for marketing and creative workers to share projects, seeking to lure more paying customers ahead of an expected public share
Should you trust your antivirus software?
In all the recent bombshell reports about the Kaspersky anti-virus software, it’s easy to focus on the Russian threat and miss the general context: every government that employs hackers tries to weaponise antivirus software. Government
Amazon Prime Video has gone off the rails
Amazon is a company that gets the benefit of the doubt. A lot. No technology company is as ambitious or as feared. Yet no one really knows Amazon’s business strategy, and that’s by design. Most investors are happy for Amazon
Interview: Roger McCleery on the future of motoring
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to veteran motoring journalist Roger McCleery…
How to electrify SA’s automotive industry
In 2016, the National Energy Development Institute’s cleaner mobility programme reported that electric vehicles in South Africa amount to a mere 500 of the roughly seven million cars on our roads. These are bleak
Vodacom out-of-bundle rate cut is lipstick on a pig
“Vodacom to reduce out-of-bundle prices by as much as 50%,” the breathless headline of the press release the mobile operator issued on Tuesday says. And it’s true, Vodacom will reduce out-of-bundle rates on 15 October. And some
Chatbots: whole lotta hype
I have a soft spot for helpdesk chat services. I always try my Internet service provider’s chat client before anything else, for three reasons: it is far cheaper than a phone call, it’s much faster than an e-mail response and it allows me to
Analysis | Zuma’s reshuffle threatens alliance, ANC
President Jacob Zuma’s decision to fire communist party leader Blade Nzimande from his cabinet is widening a rift with two of the ANC’s closest allies before a key leadership conference in December. In dismissing Nzimande as higher
Blade Runner 2049: replicant redux with a soul of its own
Because Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner flopped at the box office 35 years ago, the adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has remained a movie rather becoming than a franchise. Unsullied by
