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Advances in technology, coupled with the falling cost of hardware and software, have made it easier than ever to work in animation. The result has been studios springing up all over the world, including South Africa. Now, thanks to increasingly speedy and reliable connectivity and a weakening
Police have been forced to seek help from cellphone manufacturer Apple in the US to gain access to murder accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s phone, The Mail on Sunday reported. Pistorius could reportedly not remember the four-digit passcode needed to unlock a cellphone he was using on the night his
The press ombudsman has on Saturday dismissed three complaints made by communications minister Dina Pule against the Sunday Times. One of the complaints made by Pule concerned the editor of the Sunday Times, Phylicia Oppelt. Pule complained that Oppelt had acted unethically by handing over
Naspers and Tencent, in which it holds a 34% stake, has acquired Indian online ticketing company RedBus through their joint venture company Ibibo. The value of the deal has not been disclosed, but reports suggest the value the deal was over US$100m (R1bn). The Times of India reported on
Telkom has begun testing fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-business services as part of what it’s calling a “technical proof of concept”. The tests are part of the company’s multibillion-rand project to refresh of its access network into homes and businesses as it moves to offer much faster fixed-line broadband to its customers
DStv parent MultiChoice has launched a new bouquet of channels, its sixth, called DStv Extra, which includes 86 channels covering entertainment, news and sport. It does not include any high-definition channels. Priced at R380/month, DStv Extra is positioned between the broadcaster’s most expensive
Despite Telkom’s tough talk about learning from its mistakes, taking hard decisions and rising like a phoenix from the ashes, investors are simply indifferent to the promises made by Africa’s largest integrated communications company. The news of a R12bn write-down in assets in Telkom’s results
South Africa has won an international student supercomputing competition, beating world leaders China and the US. The fastest supercomputer is in China, the Tianhe-2, and runs at about 33,86 petaflops. Many countries say they intend to break the exaflop barrier in the next few decades. For some context
The SABC has filled six vacancies in its executive management, the public broadcaster said on Thursday. “It has become imperative for the organisation, as it is steadily becoming financially stable, to complement this with individuals who will bring immense value as we take the SABC forward,” spokesman
Months after announcing it would introduce a 200MB/month “fair-usage” cap on the popular BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), MTN South Africa has debuted a range of new, capped BlackBerry packages. The company had decided to remove the 200MB cap on its BlackBerry
