Far from being dead, BlackBerry could be set for something of a resurgence in Africa, with a significant percentage of consumers in five major markets indicating they may favour the brand when it comes time to buy their next phone. Nokia, on the other hand, is
How do we become the people we are? In AMC’s Breaking Bad we saw how Walter White ended up as Heisenberg and how Jesse Pinkman ended up more broken than he began. But what about Saul Goodman
South Africa is producing less electricity than it did last year, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. According to a report by Stats SA entitled Electricity generated and available for distribution, which
MTN has become the first operator in South Africa to launch a smartphone running Mozilla’s open-source and Web-based Firefox OS operating system. The smartphone, the Alcatel OneTouch Fire E, works
The Post Office dismissed six employees who violated a court order during the illegal strike that crippled postal operations in the last quarter of 2014, it said on Wednesday. The dismissal follows an internal disciplinary hearing which resulted from a conviction
The SABC is set to spend R100m more on staff salaries and paying board members. This is according to the public broadcaster’s new corporate plan for 2015/2016 to 2017/2018, which also says revenues are “constrained” amid advertisers cutting back “as a result of
After almost 77 years of providing constant news coverage, the South African Press Association has turned off the lights. The announcement in late February that the country’s only independent news wire service was closing shop left many saddened, shocked and
In collaboration with Ster-Kinekor and Drone Force, TechCentral is giving away five Nano Quadcopters to five lucky readers to celebrate the opening of the new movie Robot Overlords. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if the Transformers weren’t
Mobile operator Vodacom has surprised by market by announcing plans to hike contract tariff plans from 1 May. Vodacom intends increasing the subscription fees on selected contract price plans
“Persistent” and “illegal” industrial action in the form of “go-slows” at Telkom’s call centres escalated at the weekend, with staff allegedly being intimated and employees walking out, the telecommunications operator said on Monday. This comes as Telkom announced it will
