South Africa’s e-reader market received a shake-up this month when Pick n Pay announced that it was bringing the Kobo Touch e-reader to SA for R995. By comparison, the Kindle Touch 3G, which was recently launched in South Africa, retails at R2 699. Obviously
Brett Haggard, Benedict Kelly and Aki Anastasiou get together in studio this week to discuss Vodacom’s results and what they mean, the BlackBerry 10 launch, the Lumia 920, Samsung’s price hike for Apple, scientists perfecting the invisibility cloak, and more
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
