Broadcasters, working with the ministry of communications & digital technologies, have begun switching off analogue terrestrial television transmitters in the Free State.
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China’s government has asked Alibaba Group to dispose of its media assets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Netflix is testing a feature that asks viewers to verify they share a household with the account holder, the company said, a move that could lead to a clampdown on sharing of passwords.
eMedia Holdings’ Openview is about to get a challenger in the free-to-air satellite television market with the imminent launch in South Africa of a new service called PremiumFree TV.
The cookie is dead. Long live the cookie. Google said this week that it’s done tracking us as we skate around the Web and promises that it won’t adopt replacements that essentially do the same thing.
YouTube will lift its suspension on former US President Donald Trump’s channel when it determines the risk of real-world violence has decreased, said the company’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki.
Payments firm Square’s deal to buy a majority stake in music streamer Tidal for $297-million could popularise blockchain or other new approaches to storing and buying online media.
Google and Facebook make a lot of noise about how their main services are free to use. And it’s true, they are. But what they don’t highlight is their role in making almost everything else we consume online more expensive.
Google will not build or use alternate tools to track Web browsing traffic once it begins phasing out existing technology from its Chrome browser next year, it said in a blog post on Wednesday.
The SABC wants a new tax on households introduced to fund public broadcasting and to do away with the television licence fee, which few South Africans are paying anyway.