Could Microsoft’s US$8,5bn acquisition of Skype, and its plans to integrate the software into Windows Phone, its smartphone operating system, put the software maker on a collision course with cellular network operators
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Vodacom’s share price rallied to a new record high on the JSE on Monday after it turned in a strong set of results for the financial year to March 2011, boosting its cumulative annual dividend by 61,4%. CEO
In some ways, it’s been SA’s first Internet election. On Wednesday, South Africans head to the polls to cast their votes in municipal elections. And the big parties have taken online campaigning to a new level
It’s not often the CEO of a JSE-listed company walks onto a stage in front of analysts and investors dressed in jeans and a button up shirt with no tie or jacket. But that’s exactly what Pieter Uys did on Monday
The PlayStation Network (PSN) is finally spluttering back to life after a three-week coma. Now begins the process of evaluating exactly how much damage the outage has done to Sony’s PlayStation console business
“Renewable energy, as a reaction to peak oil and climate change, is probably the most important economic boom that will occur in our lifetimes.” This quote from Craig Shields prefaced a sales pitch for the Joule
SA couch potatoes, rejoice! SA is getting another challenger in the television market. And the man behind it, SouthTel Group’s Oscar Dube, is optimistic the service will offer the value proposition that will attract
SA’s television content and broadcasting market is hotting up with news that a new player, VOD:TV, will launch services to South Africans on 1 September. TechCentral can reveal exclusively that the new company, which is being launched
In the early days of mobile technology, the short message service, better known as SMS, became a global phenomenon as consumers, against all predictions, took up the service with vigour. The first SMS
Africa may be better off building mobile broadband networks using evolved high-speed packet access (HSPA+) technology rather than leaping to next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) networks immediately