While legal sales of recorded music continue to suffer from widespread music piracy, the popularity of live music appears to be enjoying an unprecedented boom. In his recent book The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud, Patrik Wikström explains that licensing and live music are now
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The latest version of First National Bank’s transactional banking app for smartphones now offers customers the ability to send money across the border to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. FNB’s Zimbabwe money transfer service was first launched on
Increased Internet access will generate more consumer spend than any other media service over the next five years in the South African entertainment and media industry, according to a new report released this week. Auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, in its “South African
outh Africa is set to pass a million registered Internet domain names ending in .za, South Africa’s delegation in cyberspace, by the first quarter of 2015. There are currently 969 190 registered domain names ending in .za, according to ZA Central Registry CEO Lucky Masilela, who revealed
After a series of failed recordings, the ZA Tech Show team is back in the studio. Brett Haggard is joined by Andy Hadfield and Adam Oxford for a bumper show all about the African start-up tech scene, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4
South Africa has up to five years to go before its electricity supply crisis is over, and consumers may well face limited power cuts this summer, MPs heard on Tuesday. Briefing a joint meeting of parliament’s energy and public enterprises committees, Eskom acting CEO Collin Matjila
Just as with all the earlier versions of the iPhone, rumours abound about what Apple will announce this week in relation to iPhone 6 – new screens, different sizes, powerful chips, faster processing and an exciting new add-on device – the iWatch. The new product line-up will be launched
Vox Telecom has acquired managed technology provider Dynamic IT as part of a growth and diversification strategy, it said on Tuesday. Dynamic IT was established 13 years ago and has clients nationally. The full Dynamic IT
Much of the excitement of fantastical and science fictional worlds is the sense of history they have, their depth, and the joy of sharing them with others. Whether it be Star Trek, Star Wars or Back to the Future, they remain sacred spaces, oases of magic to which we can escape. And if these worlds are
After seven successive quarters of year-on-year declines, the African and Middle Eastern PC market has finally returned to growth, posting an annual improvement in sales of 2,2% in the second quarter of 2014 to reach 4,5m units. The data, from research and advisory firm