South Africa’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television looks set for yet more delays if an open letter, signed by MultiChoice, and published in weekend newspapers, is anything to go by. The letter, in the form of full-page advertisements, lays into communications minister Yunus Carrim, saying his
Communications regulator Icasa this week kicked off a high-level formal inquiry into the state of competition in South Africa’s information and communications technology sector. In the coming months, the authority, which regulates the telecommunications, broadcasting and postal services sectors, has promised
Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a blog post on Thursday that he had held a telephone conversation this week with US president Barack Obama in which the Facebook CEO expressed his “frustration over the damage” the US government is “creating for all our future”. Zuckerberg, 29, has become increasingly vocal about the fallout
South Africa’s highly concentrated television broadcasting industry, which has one dominant subscription operator in MultiChoice, will be a key focus area of Icasa’s high-level inquiry into the state of competition in the information and communications technology sector
An application to declare the e-tolling legislation unconstitutional and invalid was dismissed by the Western Cape high court on Thursday. “The application is dismissed. The parties shall bear their own costs,” Judge Owen Rogers said. He said the Democratic Alliance, which
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has announced plans to launch what it’s calling a “high-level inquiry into the state of competition in the information and communications technology sector”. The authority, which regulates the telecommunications, broadcasting and postal services sectors
Twenty-five years to the day after he published the idea for the World Wide Web, computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for an online Magna Carta to protect his invention from governments and corporate influence. In an interview with The Guardian, a British newspaper, Berners-Lee said
Google recently grabbed headlines with its US$3,2bn acquisition of home automation company Nest Labs. The deal is the second biggest in Google’s history, after the $12,5bn it splashed out for Motorola Mobility in August 2011. But why did it buy it? Nest Labs designs and manufactures Wi-Fi-enabled
Fast-growing technology services group EOH has reported another strong set of numbers, with headline earnings per share in the six months ended 31 January 2014 up by 33,9% on the back of a 38,4% improvement in revenue. The strong upward move wasn’t enough to push up the share price, however, which was
More than half of the ANC’s current MPs, including disgraced former communications minister Dina Pule, are on the party’s list of parliamentary candidates. Pule who was recalled from her position last year after the public protector’s report into allegations of corruption and a potential conflict of interest against
