In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the “settlement” between Vodacom and Nkosana Makate, the operator’s former employee who claims to have invented the “please call me” service.

Every year, the technology industry gathers in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), an event that often sets the agenda for the coming 12 months.

The former Vodacom employee who claims to have come up with the idea for the “please call me” service has rejected a settlement tabled by the operator’s CEO, Shameel Joosub, describing the amount offered as “shocking and an insult”.

CES is the biggest technology show in the world but there has been one glaring absence since 1992 – Apple. However, the company’s decision not to attend hasn’t stopped it from leaving its mark in other ways.

SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space in its first mission of 2019 – and its last for satellite company Iridium.

Vodacom is paying out “reasonable compensation” to a former employee for his idea to develop a popular call-back service after a former CEO first took credit for the product.

Elon Musk has revealed images of his assembled Starship hopper test rocket, as the entrepreneur continues to explore ways of one day sending people to places as far as Mars.

Despite many South African companies still using on-premise data centres, it is expected that hybrid cloud adoption will increase significantly in the next few years.

Apple is planning to release three new iPhone models this year, including a device to succeed the newly-created XR model, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The pictures showed the Jade Rabbit 2 rover and the Chang’e 4 spacecraft that transported it on the first soft landing on the far side of the moon.