Windows 7 has landed. After months of hype, Microsoft has finally delivered its newest PC operating system. Reviewers are raving…
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Google has launched its map service in SA, providing detailed map information, driving and walking directions, transport data, and a…
Big changes in management are on the cards at Naspers-controlled pay-TV operator MultiChoice, TechCentral has learnt. Jim Volkwyn, head of…
Government and the mobile operators were locked in an urgent, closed-door meeting in Pretoria on Tuesday following the collapse of…
In the world of telecommunications, you get awful regulators and you get bloody awful regulators. Fortunately, SA has only had awful regulators. The US, Europe and other unfortunates have had bloody awful regulators. In the US, they destroyed one of the greatest companies in the world and issued hundreds of wireless licences with too little spectrum. In Europe, they managed almost to bankrupt credible telecoms operators with horrendously
Moon, the new film from director Duncan Jones, harks back to a time when science-fiction films were about moods and…
SA’s largest computer retailer, Incredible Connection, says it is enjoying strong sales of Windows 7, Microsoft’s newest desktop operating system.…
South Africans are known for taking unnatural risks every day, they are resourceful and have a healthy can-do attitude. The country has shown a remarkable propensity for innovation on a grand scale in the past – the world’s first heart transplant in Cape Town in 1967, the development (and dismantling) of a nuclear weapons programme in the 1980s and Sasol’s commercialisation of oil-from-coal technologies are a few notable examples. But these are not likely to inspire young entrepreneurs to go out and change the world
JSE-listed cellular network operator Vodacom has defended its acquisition of pan-African communications company Gateway, despite warning on Tuesday that its…
This week, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book reader went on sale in SA and around the world. E-books are finally coming of age. Here’s why you’re going to want to buy one and why you may be better off delaying your purchase for a short while. If anyone has any doubts that the future of book publishing is electronic, consider this: where Amazon stocks both