Charlie Fripp joins regulars Brett Haggard and Adam Oxford for an episode that covers all things from downtime to downloads. Topics unpacked include Amazon.com’s downtime, Electronic Arts offering refunds on the digital purchases, the local launch of the Huawei Ascend P6
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Brett Haggard is joined by Liron Segev and Dave Greenway this week for a discussion on BlackBerry’s pending sell-off, the Airport Extreme being held up at the South African Bureau of Standards, the new Haswell-powered MacBook Air, the launch of Uber in South Africa, the R799 Android smartphone from
Axed communications minister Dina Pule cut a lonely figure as national assembly speaker Max Sisulu rebuked her publicly in Parliament on Tuesday. She responded by offering a qualified apology to parliament. “Hon speaker, thank you very much for the opportunity. I want to say in this house that I gave the best
Lengthy negotiations are underway to establish how much each country involved will pay for the first phase of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, MPs heard on Wednesday. “The big issue is the funding model,” SKA South Africa project director Bernie Fanaroff told members
“I want to say in this house that I gave the best I could do to do my job. And that if in the course of me doing my job I made a mistake, I am sorry, I apologise.” Those were the brief words uttered by former communications minister Dina Pule after she was reprimanded by parliament and subjected
The cost of banking has remained unchanged in the past year, according to research by trade union Solidarity released on Tuesday. “Monthly bank costs have started to stagnate at an R80 to R100 level,” senior researcher Paul Joubert said at a presentation in Pretoria. “Bank fees are a lot better
Roads agency Sanral is set to spend R85m this year on advertising its controversial e-tolling plans in Gauteng, according to transport minister Dipuo Peters. “The SA National Roads Agency Ltd has a budgeted amount of R85m, which will be used for both the alternative sources of funding campaigns
MTN’s chief corporate services officer has been suspended allegedly over his role in the diversion of sponsorship funds for the ICT indaba, Business Day reported on Monday. The newspaper reported that Robert Madzonga was also threatening to take take legal action against former
Prospective broadcaster Mobile TV will expand its trial network using Korea’s digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) technology, to the Western Cape and the Free State, founder Mothobi Mutloatse said on Wednesday. Mobile TV has already run a trial using
In an unexpected move, Telkom has effectively cut the price of the wholesale broadband charges it levies on Internet service providers who sell broadband capacity using the company’s asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) network