E.tv has signed off on a tender for the conditional access system for the set-top boxes South Africans will need to receive digital terrestrial television signals and now only the SABC board needs to do the same before the country can move forward with long-delayed digital migration. But there’s confusion
Search giant Google is to invest US$12m (R120m) in the Jasper Power Project, a 96MW solar photovoltaic plant in South Africa’s arid Northern Cape province. When completed, Jasper will generate enough electricity to power 30 000 homes and will be one of the largest solar installations in Africa. Google has committed
Musa Phungula, the entrepreneur behind the proposed US$130m TTD cable to connect Mtunzini in KwaZulu-Natal to East London, Port Elizabeth and Yzerfontein near Cape Town, says collaboration between other projects to build submarine fibre along the same route is needed. Phungula’s
Digital agency Native has launched an application for Mxit called Bookly. It turns the mobile social network and instant messaging platform into a pocket-sized e-reader. Though limited to mainstream publishers for now, Native hopes the app will eventually prove useful to the education sector
Neotel will launch a fourth-generation (4G) telecommunications network using long-term evolution (LTE) technology in Gauteng in the third quarter of the year, the company said at a press conference on Wednesday. However, the network will be limited in scope, with only 50 base stations at launch, CEO Sunil Joshi
The Lumia 520 isn’t Nokia’s first budget Windows Phone device. There was the 620, with similar specifications. But the 520 is the most budget-friendly budget Lumia. So, just how much smartphone does R1 899 buy you? If the phone in question is the Lumia 520, the answer is rather a lot. The fifth device in the
Worldwide PC shipments will fall by 7,8% in 2013, according to revised research by International Data Corp (IDC). The company had previously forecast a “limited decline” of 1,3% this year, followed by a gradual increase in volume. The new forecast reflects a shift in PC buying
Nissan has entered into a three-year research project with Eskom that will involve testing the Nissan Leaf, the Japanese vehicle manufacturer’s electric car, in South Africa. The project comes as Nissan South Africa prepared to launch the Leaf in South Africa, becoming the first commercially available fully electric
The Press Council has said it is unable to consider a complaint by communications minister Dina Pula’s spokesman, former journalist Wisani Ngobeni, against Sunday Times editor Phylicia Oppelt. Its reasons are intriguing, and worth closer scrutiny, particularly when one keeps in mind the claim that the self-regulatory
The Press Council of South Africa has “expressed concern” at what it has called the “abuse of its readers’ complaints system” by Dina Pule’s new spin doctor, Wisani Ngobeni. On Monday evening, Ngobeni issued a media statement in which he decried the decision of the Press Council not to investigate what he alleges is
