In 2010, when MultiChoice began work on its radically redesigned new personal video recorder (PVR) decoder, the DStv Explora, the premise was that it would be a “connected box” that would offer on-demand services over the Internet. The Naspers-owned pay-television operator had
Over the past 30 years, my relationship with the pink paper has progressed, like all good love affairs, from wild passion to mature adoration and finally to an enduring life-long commitment. I am putting pen to paper not because I am considering divorce but because I am preparing myself for imminent physical
Telkom and Solidarity appear headed for a showdown after the union accused the telecommunications operator’s CEO, Sipho Maseko, of “lying” when he said at a press conference on Thursday that Solidarity and another union, the South African Communications Union, were close to a wage
Kagiso Media wants to offer a pay-television platform that includes a high degree of local content to lower- and middle-income households as part of a bouquet that will cost consumers less than R240/month. The company is, however, concerned that delays in the migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television will further
South African billionaire, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, revealed on Monday that his company, Canonical, wants to raise US$32m by means of crowdfunding to build a mobile phone called the Ubuntu Edge that will have the computing clout to serve as a desktop replacement. But if
The average measured speed of Internet connections in South Africa has improved by 16% in the past year, new research from Akamai suggests. However, the country is placed a dismal 80th worldwide, well behind top-ranked countries such as Korea and Japan. According to
Companies that handle people’s personal information, whether of clients or suppliers or simply their own staff, will have to meet stringent requirements when the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Bill is enacted and could face fines of up to R10m if they fail to do so
Competition cases, such as the two Telkom recently agreed to settle with South Africa’s Competition Commission, are outside the purview of the law, exploit public distrust of private-sector companies, enrich competition authorities and extract shareholder funds from companies by encouraging executives
The combined R5,7bn Cell C has received from its majority shareholder, Oger Telecom, and in financing from a Nedbank-led grouping will be used to improve its network and win market share from rivals Vodacom and MTN, says the operator’s CEO, Alan Knott-Craig. But Knott-Craig
DStv Online CEO John Kotsaftis, 41, is the quintessential geek. He tells me as much when I sit down to interview him in one of the boardrooms at DStv Online’s offices in Randburg, Johannesburg. His love of technology started with a friend’s gaming console. “He got an Atari
