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Cabinet has approved the ownership support roll-out framework for television set-top boxes to poor households, government spokesman Jimmy Manyi announced on Thursday. Briefing the media following Cabinet’s fortnightly meeting on Tuesday, he said the executive had further approved full subsidisation of television-owning

Korean eletronics giant Samsung will begin selling television sets in selected African markets that come bundled with a satellite tuner that will allow consumers to watch a free television bouquet of more than 60 channels provided by satellite operator SES. The LED-backlit LCD flat-panel TVs, known as the Samsung LED TV Free Satellite

India’s Tata Communications, which owns a controlling interest in local telecommunications operator Neotel, says SA is crucial to the company’s strategy of expanding into Southern Africa and into the continent more broadly. To do this, Tata Communications CEO Vinod Kumar says the company needs to deepen existing partnerships in the region and forge new ones. He won’t be drawn into acquisition

Adam Russell and John Sear don’t look like revolutionaries. Mild mannered, bespectacled and dry of wit, you’d never guess they were planning to change our entire idea of cinema. But that’s exactly what their project — interactive big screen entertainment — is aimed at doing. If the name they’ve chosen is vague, it’s because the experience

New data from Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net website, shows SA has slipped to sixth place among African nations in terms of Internet speeds, ranking below Zimbabwe. African countries with speedier average download connections are Ghana, in first place with an average throughput of 5,7Mbit/s, as well as Kenya (4,9Mbit/s), Angola

A man involved in the R42m Post Bank cyber heist was sentenced to 15 years in jail by the Hoopstad Magistrate’s Court in the Free State on Tuesday, the Hawks said. “Teboho Donald Masoleng appeared before a magistrate in Hoopstad, and pleaded guilty to charges of fraud. He was sentenced to 15 years for his role in the heist,” colonel McIntosh

The Internet economy in SA was worth R51bn/year in 2010 and will swell to R103bn by 2016, representing 2,5% of projected gross domestic product, a new research report has found. The report, by the Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm, is a comprehensive study of the impact of the Internet across

Former Research in Motion (RIM) executive Craige Fleischer has been appointed as the new head of mobile communications for Samsung Electronics in SA. He takes up the position on 1 April. Fleischer joined Samsung in October, where he took on a business development role in the company’s office automation and

The City of Johannesburg would seek to resolve at least 66 000 billing queries by the end of June, mayoral committee member Geoffrey Makhubo said on Monday. “New queries will be resolved in 30 days. That is our promise to the residents of Johannesburg,” he said in Johannesburg. The number 66 000 reflected the total number of outstanding billing queries at present

Vodacom has been been ordered to pay a politically connected fixer US$21m (R159m) this week by a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the episode could end up costing the mobile operator almost twice that amount. On the phone from Kinshasa this week, Moto Mabanga, the SA-based fixer who was