All the latest technology news from South Africa and around the world.
The iPhone 4S, the latest version of Apple’s iconic smartphone, will go on sale in SA on 16 December, cellular network operator Vodacom said in a tweet on Thursday. The launch of the device in SA had been expected late last month, but was delayed by a three weeks. Vodacom said in its
Jon Stewart fans rejoice! Comedy Central, which broadcasts the popular Daily Show, is coming to SA and other markets in sub-Saharan Africa. It will be available on MultiChoice’s DStv Premium platform from 6 December and is being provided by MTV Networks Africa. The channel
Microsoft is developing a version of its popular Office productivity suite for the iPad, according to The Daily, News Corp’s tablet-only newspaper. The newspaper quotes unnamed sources as saying that the software company is “actively working on adapating its popular software suite
Nashua Mobile has appointed its operations director Chris Radley to the post of MD with immediate effect. Radley, a chartered accountant, started his career as an audit manager at Coopers & Lybrand. He then worked at Siltek Distribution Dynamics, the largest
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) on Wednesday published a framework for the unbundling of Telkom’s fixed-line local loop of copper-cable infrastructure into homes and businesses. It has proposed a phased introduction of
Microsoft has launched its cloud-computing productivity suite, Office 365, in SA. The suite includes various collaboration options and will be available to SA users as a free trial until its commercial launch sometime next year. Office 365 is a direct competitor to rival Google’s Docs platform
Multinational media company Naspers released its interim results for the six months to 30 September on Tuesday. They show subsidiary Multichoice has enjoyed far slower growth than in 2010 but the group’s Internet interests are expanding rapidly and accounting
Cybercrime is now the fourth largest economic crime in SA and worldwide, according to the findings of the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) economic crime survey. The report, released on Tuesday, polled almost 4 000 companies worldwide, 123 of them from SA
Several companies have cashed in on the climate change conference in Durban to promote power-generating gadgets friendly to the environment. They had their hands full on Monday as people attending the two-week long 17th Conference of Parties (Cop17) enquired
Telecommunications operators across the developed world are investing billions of dollars in fibre-to-the-home projects to deliver next-generation services such as Internet television and video-on-demand products. But the costs associated with fibre roll-outs in
