Jo’burg speed cameras offline
An intervention by the Democratic Alliance administration in Johannesburg to clean up contracts with service providers has brought the electronic enforcement of speed limits to a halt and seriously affected law enforcement
Twitter’s biggest asset: Donald Trump
Without Donald Trump, Twitter could lose almost a fifth of its value. That’s the conclusion of Monness Crespi Hardt & Co analyst James Cakmak, who said that the social media company would see as much as $2bn in market
Worries that Naspers is a one-trick pony
Naspers’s conglomerate discount is widening. Its one-third stake in Tencent Holdings alone is now worth 27% more than the South African Internet company’s entire market cap. After a 70% increase in its stock so far this year
Worries grow over Tencent, Alibaba valuations
Alibaba and Tencent can count themselves among the world’s costliest technology companies after a stellar run. To justify those lofty valuations, China’s two largest corporations have to deliver on some of the riskiest bets they’ve
Interview: HMD Global on the future of Nokia phones
Nokia is a brand that still has enormous cachet among South African consumers. In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Justin Maier and Patrick Henchie, vice-president and product
Data expiry: Icasa must proceed with caution
There is little argument that when communications regulator Icasa cut mobile call termination rates – the per-minute charges operators levy on each other to carry calls between their networks – there was
Expiring data bundles: bring on the regulations!
Icasa’s move to regulate what it terms “out-of-bundle billing practices” and “expiry of data practices” is years overdue. The regulator wants to get rid of the typical 30-day expiry period for mobile data bundles, which has been a
IoT’s key feature is the pennies it can pinch
Not since utility computing became on-demand computing became grid computing became cloud computing has there been more fuss about a technology concept that is 40 years old. The Internet of things, once known
Mashaba plans ‘shock and awe’ for Jo’burg CBD
Johannesburg’s new mayor, Herman Mashaba, said that international aid agencies must help to care for undocumented foreigners that he plans to evict from inner city buildings in a bid to attract private investment to rebuild
Toshiba Portégé X20W-D two-in-one reviewed
It was only a few years ago that powerful laptops were heavy, clunky things that weighed you down on your travels. Thanks to the miniaturisation of electronics, the latest high-end laptops are not only powerful, but also so
