There are thousands of satellites in Earth orbit, of varying age and usefulness. At some point they all reach the end of their lives and become floating junk. What do we do with them then? Most satellites are not designed
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Telkom’s plans to cut wholesale service prices from 1 May should lead to big savings for consumers on their broadband bills, Internet Solutions MD Saki Missaikos predicts. However, it’s still too early to
If you think Eskom’s load shedding causes disruptions, there’s potentially an even bigger problem for the economy waiting in the wings – a technology outage caused by a cyber attack. The very functioning
As famously contrarian investors, the one stock Allan Gray might be thought least likely to hold is Naspers. Besides being the flavour of the market, the counter is trading on multiples that most value
DStv parent MultiChoice did not force the SABC to agree not to carry its free-to-air channels on broadcasting platforms that use encryption and a clause to this effect in a channel supply agreement
Many millions of people throughout the world will illegally download the fifth season of Game of Thrones, which began screening around the world, including in South Africa, this month. Legally
In the past three months, I’ve visited three francophone countries — Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Mali — and talked to those involved in the start-up ecosystem in each country. The most developed of
South Africa still hasn’t switched on commercial digital terrestrial television broadcasts, but that isn’t holding back the broadcasting industry from running trials to test digital radio broadcasts based on Digital Audio Broadcasting and Digital Radio Mondiale
There are some specific words that are not particularly popular with the European Commission: “hi-tech”, “anticompetitive” and “bundling”, to name a few. Throw “US firms” into the mix, and the
Digital music downloads and online streaming sales have now overtaken sales of CDs and records for the first time, underscoring just how fundamentally the internet has changed the way we consume