The African and Middle Eastern PC market posted its third successive quarter of year-on-year growth in the fourth quarter of 2014, but a slide in sales in 2015 is on the cards, according to International Data Corp. The improvement in the most recent three quarters follows
South Africans still prefer physical shops as opposed to buying goods online, according to a PwC survey released on Tuesday. In 2014, the value of online retail sales in South Africa was R5,3bn, retail
Apple CEO Tim Cook has released the much anticipated Apple Watch, the company’s first new product since the iPad. Cook said the new watch, in addition to telling the time, was a “comprehensive health and fitness companion”. But we’re unlikely to hear much about how
A stunning new MacBook from Apple stole the show at the launch of the company’s smartwatch on Monday. The new, ultra-thin notebook computer, which is 24% thinner than the MacBook Air
Government-provided set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television will not contain conditional access based on encryption, and prospective pay-television operators wanting to use such a system
Apple’s event at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center was widely expected to focus on the release of the Apple Watch. In a move that took everyone by surprise, however, Apple also released a
Cabinet’s decision to provide free set-top boxes to 5m poor South Africans does not go far enough, two public broadcasting advocacy groups have said. Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition say government should have required that
Just weeks after the not-for-profit South African Press Association (Sapa) announced it would close its doors at the end of…
What’s going on at Microsoft? The company is producing great software – and now hardware – that supports a range of platforms, not just Windows. The latest example of this is the new Office for Mac, which was released in preview form last week. It’s
MultiChoice has hit back strongly at claims by another media group Caxton and by two public broadcasting advocacy groups that its 2013 deal with the SABC over the supply of two television
