Top TV may not broadcast pornography channels without the permission of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), the high court in Johannesburg ruled on Monday. The pay channel applied to Icasa in September for permission to flight three porn channels. When it received no response after two months
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Money is just “pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don’t have to kill each other just to get something to eat”, declares Jeremy Irons as the reptilian CEO John Tuld in Margin Call, a drama about a group of investment bankers who have just realised
Google lost its status as the darling of the Internet earlier this week following an uproar over changes to its search results. Now the search engine and online advertising giant faces a fresh PR disaster after Kenyan mobile start-up Mocality, on Friday, accused
TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod and Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou bring you a special report from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. We talk about the biggest news coming out of this week’s CES event, including the latest in television
Airborne launched in late December 2011, and is an online music service that gives SA (and international) music audiences a chance to support their favourite artists directly, by “subscribing” to their playlist for a dollar a month, and by encouraging fans to
It’s become a rite of passage for the world’s biggest technology companies. As soon as you’ve fought your way to the top and become the darling of both stock markets and customers, regulators begin to cry “monopoly”. It happened to IBM in the 1960s
Last Wednesday, photographer and blogger Trey Ratcliff caused an uproar online when he suggested that digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are doomed because of the advances in so-called “mirrorless” cameras. The leading-edge brigade praised
With most of the ZA Tech Show crew at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Samantha Beckbessinger and Nic Callegari man the fort this week. They discuss the latest CES news, Ultrabooks, DStv BoxOffice Online, poor matric results in maths and much more
Howzit MSN, one of the largest websites in SA, thanks in part to its status as the default landing page for users of Microsoft’s Windows Internet Explorer browser, has launched a new, dedicated channel for consumers in English markets in Africa. The
Tower management company Eaton Towers has secured a US$30m debt facility from Standard Bank, via Stanbic Bank Ghana and Standard Bank in SA, to expand its portfolio of telecommunications towers in Ghana. Eaton Towers is one of several companies