In the latest episode of South Africa’s leading weekly technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the big Apple Watch and MacBook announcement. Also this week, they look at the ructions at the department of telecommunications
Sabido Investments, which owns broadcasting assets including e.tv and eNews Channel Africa (eNCA), has announced it may have to close two loss-making divisions and has begun consultations with affected staff. The first business that may be closed down
Eskom on Thursday announced that it has asked its CEO Tshediso Matona and two other executives to “step aside” while an inquiry into the parastatal is conducted. Matona has been in the top job at Eskom for only six months. Before joining Eskom, he
Billed as the cheapest Windows Phone Lumia device to hit the South African market, Microsoft on Thursday announced it would sell its entry-level Lumia 435 smartphone starting at R1 149. The 435 is the first 400-series Lumia. Low-cost Lumia devices have proved
M-Pesa users in Kenya and Tanzania can now send money to each other electronically using their mobile phones, Vodacom said on Monday. Vodacom has 7m M-Pesa customers in Tanzania, while sister company Safaricom has 18m in Kenya. The
An association that represents many of South Africa’s online publishers has entered into discussions with the South African Press Council to explore the feasibility of a cross-platform news media code of ethics and voluntary editorial content regulatory system
A fire is menacing two of the country’s biggest data centre operators. Teraco and Hetzner on Thursday confirmed that the building in which their Cape Town data centres is housed was on fire on Thursday. “We are in contact with the fire department
MultiChoice-owned Internet service provider MWeb on Monday unveiled its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) prices, which will be available to consumers who have access to Telkom’s nascent home fibre network. The announcement comes on top of MWeb’s plans to work
The Democratic Alliance wants former SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala, who resigned last December, to “pay back the money” she received during her 22-month tenure at the public broadcaster. “A reply to a DA parliamentary question reveals that former SABC chair
Samsung lost the number one spot in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2014, displaced at the top of the pile by Apple, according to new data from Gartner. It’s the first time Samsung has dropped out of the top spot in smartphone sales volumes
