Government’s long-awaited ICT empowerment charter has been published in the Government Gazette, nine years after it was first mooted. The charter is intended to encourage and promote black ownership and participation in the ICT sector. The finalised
Author: Craig Wilson
Although the new products in Apple’s line-up will largely please those looking to upgrade or purchase their first MacBook Air or Pro laptops, there were some notable omissions at Monday night’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference keynote in San Francisco — and a couple of pricing surprises. The most
Telkom’s share price fell by almost 6% on Monday to R19,11 to close at its low of the day and at a fresh eight-year low as investors continued taking fright over the operator’s poor financial performance and government’s controversial decision not to support a
Having shed its partnership with Ericsson, Japan’s Sony is still trying to find its feet in the Android handset market. Despite marketing capabilities to rival Samsung’s, Sony hasn’t managed to cement itself a place in the smartphone war. The Xperia S looks unlikely to change that. The top-end Xperia is a
Cape Town-based social media payment service ZunguZ has formed a partnership with local online micro-loans company GetBucks to offer Facebook users loans of up to R500 via the popular social network. The companies claim their service is the world’s first social media credit facility. While GetBucks
MTN SA has signed a sponsorship deal with Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car), a UK-based project that bills itself as an “engineering adventure” and seeks to break the land-speed record by piloting a vehicle at more than 1 600km/h. The companies hope to use the project to encourage school
8ta, has greatly increased its subscriber numbers, but Telkom’s mobile arm continues to cost the operator billions of rand a year. The number of active 8ta mobile subscribers for the financial year ended March 2012 increased by 213,2% to 1,5m, with total subscribers now numbering slightly over 3m, 154,5% up on
Samsung Electronics’ highly anticipated flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, has launched in SA. The phone has been available from mobile operator Vodacom since the end of last month. Billed by some as the handset that could eat into the market share of Apple, with its iPhone 4S, the S3 is available starting
With an untucked shirt and a casual gait, Steven Cohen doesn’t look like the MD of one of SA’s most successful software companies. Softline Pastel was co-founded by Ivan Epstein and Alan Osrin in 1988 – with Cohen, then a young entrepreneur, joining the pair 22 years ago. As I’m sitting with
Communications minister Dina Pule said on Wednesday that the set-top boxes that will be subsidised for poorer households will get a “return path” to provide basic Internet access. She made the announcement at the department of communications’ ICT Indaba in Cape Town. South Africans will