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Brett Haggard, Andy Hadfield and Dominic White congregate for episode 231 of the ZA Tech Show and discuss the launch of Windows 8, criticism of the Surface and Windows RT, Steve Jobs’s yacht, password and security tips, and much more

Internet giant Google is threatening to sue a young entrepreneur from Middelburg in Mpumalanga because his website has a similar name, Beeld reported on Wednesday. Andries Maree, 23, owns domain name Doogle.co.za, a website that allows employment

The 16% electricity tariff hike every year for the next five years is unavoidable, public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday. “It [the tariff increase] is not fair, [but] it is necessary,” Gigaba said at a business breakfast in Fourways.

South Africa needs an independent operator in the electricity sector, the Free Market Foundation (FMF) said on Tuesday. A single grid owner and operator, South Africa’s current model, resulted in a lack of competition, FMF director Eustace Davie told reporters

The number of mobile subscriptions in Africa will cross the 750m mark during the fourth quarter of 2012 and reach 1bn before the end of 2015, according to forecasts by Informa Telecoms & Media. Africa has the highest rate of growth in

An IT contract worth R23m, awarded by the Gauteng finance department, is under investigation by the Hawks, the Sunday Independent reports. The contract was given to Lefatshe Technologies without going through a tender process, apparently

Brett Haggard hosts the return of Sam Beckbessinger and David Greenway in this episode of the ZA Tech Show. There was a ton of news to report back on, and a ton of upcoming news to speculate on. Among other things, they discuss Google’s new device

Brett Haggard is back this week, hosting Benedict Kelly and Arthur Goldstuck in a discussion on Felix Baumgartner’s Stratospheric Jump and the live YouTube stream, the fact that long-term evolution has gone live and 8ta is stealing the show, Zune Music changing to Xbox Music

The government’s decision in August to retain two Telkom directors who small institutional investors wanted removed and vote off four independent investors has led to speculation that the purge of the board was driven by a long-term plan for the company

Private credit card and banking details have been leaked during a breach at a company which processes online transactions, the Payments Association of SA (Pasa) said on Friday. Pasa CEO Walter Volker said there was no need for “undue concern” by card holders