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From a small catalogue at launch three years ago, there is now an expansive line-up of Beats by Dr Dre headphones, from in-ear and over-the-ear models to various pop star-endorsed ones. It was only a matter of time before the company came out with

The SA version of Apple’s App Store has begun charging customers in rands rather than US dollars. The change, which took effect on Friday, has also brought local-currency versions of the store to India, Indonesia, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a great deal riding on Windows 8. Since he took the helm 13 years ago from his friend Bill Gates, the company’s share price has gone nowhere. The software giant is far from sinking, but it’s slowly taking on water. Windows 8 will be a key product in plugging the hole. But

eFive Telecoms, the company behind the South Atlantic Express (SAEx) submarine cable system that will link SA with Brazil, has signed a supply agreement for the construction of the system with TE SubCom. The two-fibre-pair system, offering 80x100Gbit/s per fibre pair, will stretch for 9 900km

Telkom’s mobile arm, 8ta, has introduced unlimited voice calls for a fixed monthly price starting at R1 199/month in an effort to tap the top-end of the contract market where users spend thousands of rand a month on their telecommunications needs

Pan-African and Middle Eastern mobile telecommunications operator, the MTN Group, now expects to add 23,7m new subscribers in 2012, up from previous guidance of 21,2m. In a quarterly update, for the period ended 30 September, MTN says it has grown its subscriber base by 3,8% to 182,7m despite

High drama unfolded at Telkom’s annual general meeting on Wednesday as communications minister Dina Pule moved to exercise her power over the company by voting against the election or reelection of nonexecutive directors and against two new share incentive schemes for management. One analyst

Outgoing Telkom chairman Lazarus Zim on Wednesday indirectly hit out at government over its decision to block the sale of 20% of the fixed-line telecommunications operator’s equity to Korea’s KT Corp, calling the move “tragic” and a “big loss”. Speaking at Telkom’s annual general meeting in front of

If anyone had any doubt that there is a price war going on in SA’s mobile market, Cell C’s latest cut to international call rates should put those doubts to bed. The company has announced a promotional rate of 85c/minute, billed per

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are intimately familiar with it. It’s been a cornerstone of Microsoft’s operating-system software since then-CEO Bill Gates unveiled Windows 95 more than 17 years ago. Yet, this Friday, when the US software giant releases Windows 8 to the general