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Kevin Knoop, a Cape Town-based software developer whose day job in developing remote monitoring and management applications, has built a smartphone app for Paradox home alarm systems, used extensively in South Africa, to extend their functionality to users’ smartphones. Knoop developed House Alarm because
Communications minister Faith Muthambi is to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain her ratification of Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appointment as SABC chief operating officer. Communications committee chair Joyce Moloi-Moropa confirmed the minister would appear before the
Dina Pule’s former spin doctor, Wisani Ngobeni, has lost a labour court bid to save his government job, the Sunday Times reported. Ngobeni, a former journalist, was Pule’s spokesman when she was communications minister. He was fired by the department on 27 June after being found guilty in a disciplinary
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala lied to parliament about her qualifications, City Press reported on Sunday. In her CV before the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications, Tshabalala said she graduated from Unisa with a BCom and a post-graduate diploma in labour relations. The claim
Imagine being able to watch the latest hit shows on South African television just hours after they’ve been aired in the US. That’s what local pay-television viewers can now look forward to. Due to the growing threat posed by online piracy, M-Net, the pay-TV operator in the MultiChoice stable has announced it will
Although Eskom turned a R7bn profit according to its results released on Friday, the state-owned entity has warned this will not be sufficient to plug the R225bn revenue shortfall it faces over the next five years. The country, in the meantime, faces continued power constraints as the first unit of new power
Eskom on Friday announced a net profit of R7,1bn for the financial year ending 31 March 2014. “This was up from R5,2bn in the previous year, but significantly less than the R12,2bn reported for the six months ended 30 September 2013,” the parastatal said in a statement
In another example of how good Steve Jobs was in picking technology losers and winners, in 2010 he listed all of the reasons why the world needed to move on from using Flash. At the time, Jobs was explaining why the iPhone and iPad would not support Flash but it is clear that if he
The technology world is abuzz with speculation about what Microsoft is planning for the next generation of its operating system to replace Windows 8. It was always going to be difficult to create an operating system that bridged the gap between the mouse and keyboard-driven desktop PCs
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng will make a formal submission to communications minister Faith Muthambi that journalists have a licence to practice, it was reported on Friday. “We will be making these submissions. I am surprised at how Sanef [the South African National Editors’ Forum] has opposed this
