Author: Duncan McLeod

The theft of batteries from base stations around South Africa has become a significant problem for mobile operators, costing them into the hundreds of thousands of rand every time criminals break into a site. But operators have started fighting back with the

Amazon is ready to deliver packages to customers using drones. And it’s getting Jeremy Clarkson to tell you – and the regulators who need to approve the technology – all about it. Clarkson, a former co-host of the hit BBC motoring show Top Gear (he was fired for punching a producer), signed a

Neotel’s chief financial officer, Steven Whiley, has resigned. Whiley was suspended from the telecommunications operator in July, along with CEO Sunil Joshi, over allegations of bribery related to a multibillion-rand contract at Transnet. In a tersely worded statement on Friday, Neotel said

The Democratic Alliance has released its annual cabinet report card, and the two ICT ministers, Faith Muthambi at communications and Siyabonga Cwele at telecommunications & postal services, have been given very poor grades. Muthambi emerged with the DA’s lowest

Creative Spark, the Cape Town-based digital agency founded by Matthew Buckland, has been acquired by M&C Saatchi for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition includes Creative Spark’s digital publishing arm, whose titles include Memeburn, Ventureburn and Gearburn

A computer that costs only US$5, or less than R75? That’s what the team behind the popular Raspberry Pi has just unveiled. The Raspberry Pi Zero, which goes on sale immediately (in limited quantities for now), has a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, microSD card slot, micro USB

Apple’s tablet, PC hybrid, the 12,9-inch iPad Pro, goes on sale in South Africa on Friday. But those wanting one had better be prepared to stump up a lot of cash thanks to the sorry state of the rand. The iPad Pro, which has received mixed reviews, will start at

Feature phones dead? Microsoft is betting against it. The company has unveiled two new feature phones, the Nokia 230 and the Nokia 230 Dual Sim, which offer battery life of up to 27 days in standby mode. The two phones, which are expected to retail for

Naspers’s fledgling video-on-demand platform, ShowMax, will be expanded to three new continents in the coming year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The news wire cited an unnamed source as saying that the company is targeting more than

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will have the final say on what happens with the US$5,2bn (R73bn) fine imposed on South African-headquartered telecommunications group MTN, multiple