Duncan McLeod is editor of TechCentral.
The television entertainment industry in South Africa is in for significant disruption in the next 18 months. And couch potatoes look set to be the biggest beneficiaries as competition intensifies between traditional broadcasters and new Internet streaming providers
Mobile operators and Internet service providers could have their licences revoked by communications regulator Icasa if they fail to comply with new legislation being developed to govern online censorship in South Africa. In a statement issued on Thursday
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has reportedly said that at the right price, the company would consider an offer to buy mobile network operator Cell C. This is according to Reuters, which quotes Maseko as saying that Cell C is an “interesting proposition”
A bit of search engine manipulation has provided insight into the content that Naspers’s soon-to-be-launched subscription video-on-demand service ShowMax will offer. Doing a Google image search against the ShowMax.com domain
Web retailer and technology giant Amazon has announced plans to open an office of Amazon Web Services in Johannesburg. The new office joins the established Amazon Development Centre in Cape Town, which has been in operation since 2004
StarSat parent On Digital Media (ODM) has no intention of withdrawing a complaint it lodged against MultiChoice in 2013 at the Competition Commission, in which it accused its rival of engaging
In the latest episode of South Africa’s weekly technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Google’s big restructuring and the creation of Alphabet. Also this week, they discuss the Forbes list of the
Dimension Data is getting a new CEO for its Middle East and Africa business. Grant Bodley, who has been with the IT services group for the past 15 years, will be taking on the role with current CEO
Media and technology group Naspers is said to be planning a video-on-demand rival to Netflix, and may be intending to announce the new service at a media conference in South Africa as early as next week. Naspers owns MultiChoice, which operates
Two months after missing the international deadline for switching from analogue to digital terrestrial television, South Africa has still not begun commercial digital broadcasts. However, the department of communications said in parliament on Tuesday that it is
