On Thursday, MultiChoice will launch BoxOffice, a movie rental service on its DStv pay-TV platform. The service takes aim at traditional video stores. It’s the country’s first transactional video-on-demand service — a rival service called VOD:TV
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Google on Tuesday launched the SA version of Engage, a programme that provides digital agencies, Web designers and marketers with tools meant to help get more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) online and, ultimately, grow the
Startup Weekend, a popular US event that gets entrepreneurs, developers, designers and marketers together to discuss and generate ideas for start-ups, is coming to SA, with two weekends planned for later this month. Started in the Boulder, Colorado
WirelessG and Apple distributor Core Group have partnered to offer 1GB of free Wi-Fi per month with all new iPad 2 Wi-Fi device purchases for 12 months. The offer will be made available only on iPad 2 Wi-Fi products in the
David Redshaw, the IT industry stalwart and long-time friend and confidante of Altron founder Bill Venter and his family, has passed away, aged 69. Redshaw, who worked for Altron companies in senior executive roles for 22 years, including as founding
SA’s four cellular network operators and two fixed-line providers will have new customer contracts that are compliant with the Consumer Protection Act in place within the next three months, according to Business Report on Monday. This
Chicken restaurant chain Nando’s has bid farewell to outgoing Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt in a cheeky advertising campaign in which it declares: “We’ll be watching you, Lars. Like a chicken.” Nando’s, which is known for its irreverent and humourous
As competition in the broadband market intensifies, Telkom on Friday said it would offer home and small business customers the opportunity to test its digital subscriber lines by means of a free three-month trial. Customers taking up
After 10 months of speculation, Vox Telecom has finally confirmed that it’s going private. Assuming it gets the necessary approvals, the company will delist from the JSE after receiving a R500m acquisition offer from a consortium comprising Lereko
SA youth radio station YFM has launched YTV, a service that streams live video content of its studio. What sets the service apart is that the video feed is able to scale itself dynamically depending on the viewer’s bandwidth so there is no need for the visual