As mobile phone users, all we want is enough battery life to last the day. Frustratingly, the older the device, the less power it seems to have. In fact, the amount of battery life our mobiles have on any given day depends

If you’ve ever driven Tesla’s flagship vehicle – the $140 000 Model S P100D – you’ve experienced an unparalleled version of driving power. Zero to 100km/h in 2.3s punches you back in the seat while making the stomach

Five hundred kilometres. That’s the electric range of a $44 000 version of Tesla’s Model 3, unveiled in its final form on Friday night. It’s a jaw-dropping new benchmark for cheap range in an electric car, and it’s just one of several

BT Group is proposing a £600 plan to bring faster Internet coverage to the rural UK, to be paid for by charges to other broadband users. The former phone monopoly’s Openreach wholesale division by 2020 would build

The Internet of things (IoT) is counted among emerging technologies that promise to transform the South African market. While the opportunity for IoT is young in South Africa, its potential influence is far-reaching. For example, in the mining industry

Telkom is moving to shake up the broadband market in South Africa and arrest the decline in the number of fixed lines in service by slashing prices, doubling speeds, doing away with separate telephone line rentals

African Rainbow Capital, the black-owned investment company chaired by billionaire Patrice Motsepe, has acquired a 20% stake in 4G/LTE operator Rain (formerly Wireless Business Solutions). The value of the deal

It’s Friday, so it’s podcast time. On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about MTN shares plunging on a disappointing earnings update. Also this week, the curious case of EOH’s gyrating

After years of being outsold by the iPhone, the venerable iPod has taken a big step toward eventual oblivion. Apple said Thursday it was discontinuing two of the cheapest iPod models: the nano and shuffle. The two

Amazon.com has reminded investors that luring shoppers away from stores and dominating the cloud computing industry isn’t cheap. The company on Thursday forecast a potential quarterly loss for the first time in