Digital music downloads and online streaming sales have now overtaken sales of CDs and records for the first time, underscoring just how fundamentally the internet has changed the way we consume
South Africa “won’t be held to ransom” by e.tv. That was the warning on Friday by communications minister Faith Muthambi, who was speaking to TechCentral on the sidelines of a Southern African Digital Broadcasting Association event in Johannesburg where she
In the latest episode of South Africa’s leading technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about e.tv serving papers on government over its digital television migration policy as well as the reaction of communications minister Faith
Public enterprises minister Lynne Brown has seconded Transnet CEO Brian Molefe and appointed him as the acting Eskom CEO with immediate effect after Tshediso Matona was suspended in March. Molefe has been in his role at Transnet
In a music buying industry now dominated by iTunes and music streaming services such as Spotify, Napster, Pandora and Jay-Z’s recently released Tidal, the CD and physical music store are reportedly in sharp (and potentially terminal) decline. But a curious development
Just before the Easter long weekend, Eskom ramped up the amount of generation capacity taken offline for planned maintenance by 40%. This was a substantial move (and a very belated positive one). In practical terms, planned maintenance had been hovering around the 4GW
Dinner by candlelight conversations often get heated when a guest boasts that they are exempt from load shedding. Possible reasons for this included living near President Jacob Zuma or other powerful leaders. But this week, the City of Cape Town shed light on this heavy
South Africans could soon experience their first-ever stage four load shedding after Eskom confirmed that the stage allocation would be altered. The current stages of load shedding are stage one, when 1GW is cut from the grid; stage two, when 2GW is cut from the grid
Reduced demand for set-top boxes, poor sales of Altech’s much-hyped Node product, the loss of a television assembly business, tough trading conditions at Autopage Cellular and poor performance at
The names of 26 bidding organisations that have each won a piece of South Africa’s R4,3bn set-top box tender have finally been revealed by the state agency tasked with the project. Last week