Driven by the rise of broadband, the era of linear television broadcasting will draw to a rapid close in the next decade. New media empires will be built on the back of this change. Established broadcasters that don’t adapt will crumble. A revolution is at hand — a revolution that is going
Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal assistant” on the iPhone, is currently his BFF. Many of us wanted an imaginary friend, and now we have one. Only she’s not entirely imaginary
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng is appealing the Western Cape cigh court order on his suspension, the public broadcaster reported on Friday. “I have instructed my lawyers to appeal with immediate effect,” he said. He said he respected the court but felt another court would come to
The Western Cape high court ordered on Friday that SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng be suspended with immediate effect, the Democratic Alliance said. “The Western Cape high court ordered that he be suspended with immediate effect pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing
Early e-commerce market entrant in Nigeria, Naspers’s Kalahari.com, came and went, with many suggesting it was inevitable given that the number of online customers was tiny. But Rocket Internet start-up Jumia and Konga, backed by Sweden’s Kinevik and Naspers, are now estimated by those
Love the company or hate it, Google has fundamentally changed the way we use the Internet. The company has set the standard for two of the Internet’s biggest drawcards, Web search and e-mail, for more than a decade. And it’s showing no signs of slowing down. This week, Google unveiled
Nokia, now part of Microsoft, has been on a roll this year, announcing a number of superb new Windows Phone-based Lumia devices. Last week, the company launched its newest midrange smartphone, the Lumia 830, in South Africa. The 830 is priced comfortably below the flagship
According to TechRepublic, Google produced two of the five worst technology products of 2009 – Android 1.0 and Google Wave. The fact that Google remains dominant suggests that, while not infallible, it’s rich enough to take risks and weather occasional failures. If you are as rich as Google, it’s not extravagant to allow
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala won’t be producing her qualifications just yet. Instead, she’s headed to the courts to stop a parliamentary process intent on suspending her, after months of evasions and requests for postponements. Tshabalala’s lawyers have lodged an interdict to stop a parliamentary inquiry
Hosken Consolidated Investments, in a surprise move late on Wednesday, announced that it had suspended its executive chairman Marcel Golding pending a disciplinary hearing into “gross misconduct”. Golding was not immediately available for
