In the second of ZA Tech Show’s episodes for the silly season, Brett Haggard and Arthur Goldstuck discuss some predictions for CES 2013. These include some obvious new notebook and tablet arrivals based on Windows 8, new smartphone designs, the focus on the automotive industry
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How to get the country’s telecommunications, broadcasting and postal regulator functioning efficiently is the subject of major debate, at the heart of which is the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) Amendment Bill. This, the latest draft of legislation
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) will on Friday publish a review of the country’s national radio frequency plan. The purpose, it says, it is ensure the plan reflects the final acts of the recent World Radio Conference 2012. Icasa wants to ensure the plan
In the first of ZA Tech Show’s mini episodes of 2012, Brett Haggard and David Greenway get together to discuss their favourite gadgets of 2012. They name their favourite smartphones, tablets, e-readers, Ultrabooks and headphones of 2012 and choose their favourite Christmas gifts for under R2 000
Silly season has descended and your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson present the final episode of the fresh-look TalkCentral podcast for 2012. In this week’s show, we look at the top three news stories of the last seven days and pick our winner and loser of the week – this week it’s MTN and Net1 UEPS Technologies
Telkom’s share price jumped more than 4% in intraday trading after it announced the appointment of five independent nonexecutive directors to fill posts vacant since October. The share closed up by 3,5%, a rare strong move for a company whose share price has tumbled by almost 45% over the past year
Almost five years after then communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri published South Africa’s first policy document on digital terrestrial television migration, the country’s broadcasting regulator will publish its final regulations. Needless to say these regulations have been a long time
E-tolling of Gauteng freeways got the legal nod on Thursday when the high court in Pretoria on Thursday dismissed an application to have the project scrapped. “The application is dismissed,” Judge Louis Vorster said, reading out his judgment. “In my view the application cannot succeed.” Vorster
Simon Dingle returns to the show this week, along with Brett Haggard and Arthur Goldstuck in a discussion on iTunes in South Africa, Microsoft Sync in the Ford Focus, BlackBerry’s chances of survival, the excellent new Linux Mint, Steamboxes and much more
South Africans can now buy and rent movies in Apple’s iTunes Store, less than a week after the US company began offering music purchases in the local version of the online store. Recent movie titles are available to rent for R39,99 each. Early investigations show they can be bought for between