Mustek has pulled the plug on a plan to delist from the JSE. A consortium led by CEO David Kan and the Trinitas Private Equity Fund had wanted to execute a management buy-out of the technology company and take it private. Kan says during the preparations
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With live blogs rolling in the background Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle discuss Microsoft’s Xbox announcements at E3, Android tablets and how Honeycomb stacks up, Apple’s Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud announcements, and much more
Apple CEO Steve Jobs opened the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, demoting the computer to “just a device” and talking up how it wants to “move your hub, the centre of your digital life, into the cloud”
Newspapers won’t die out, but publishers need to recognise that they are in the journalism business, not the newsprint business, and must embrace a range of news delivery vehicles. That’s the view of Peter Barron, Google’s director of external affairs
News that the City of Tshwane is planning to publish new bylaws to facilitate and regulate the laying of fibre-optic cables is good news. They need to be published as soon as possible and one hopes the rest of the country follows suit — all local
Every major mobile device manufacturer has, or is, releasing a tablet, and HTC’s first offering is the Flyer — a 7-inch Android tablet that distinctly resembles an oversized Desire HD. In fact, because the Flyer runs Android 2.3.3 (rather than the tablet-specific
Cell C has lost an appeal against a decision by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that its advertising, in which it makes certain speed claims about its network, is “misleading”. The authority has upheld an original decision by its directorate
With its retro groove and a plot that uses the Cuban Missile Crisis as a backdrop, X-Men: First Class adds new zest to the wilted X-Men franchise. Matthew Vaughan, director of Layer Cake and Kick-Ass, brings a youthful zing to the fifth
Craig Wilson and Duncan McLeod bring you episode 40 of TalkCentral, TechCentral’s business technology podcast. In this week’s episode, we focus on fibre optics: the new Dark Fibre Africa link between Mtunzini and Gauteng and plans by the City of
The City of Tshwane wants to make it easier for telecommunications operators to deploy fibre-optic networks in Pretoria and surrounding areas with a new set of bylaws to ease their construction. The city is set to release a document for public discussion