Broadcasting regulator Icasa was ordered on Monday to review its decision to license three porn pay channels. Handing down judgment in the Western Cape high court, judge Lee Bozalek said the decision taken last year by Icasa to
People have a mental model of shopping that is based on experiences from brick-and-mortar stores. We intuitively understand how this process works: all available products are displayed around the store and the prices are clearly marked. Many stores
The smartphone industry may produce gleaming marvels of modern technology, but it is also ruled by the law of the jungle. Amazon has learned this the hard way. Its Fire Phone range, unveiled to such fanfare in June, has been completely mauled by
There will not be power cuts as a result of the Majuba power station crisis anywhere in the country on Monday, Eskom said. “There will be no load shedding today [Monday]. We managed to restore coal supplies to two of the six units
In the six months from April to September, Telkom budgeted to spend R234m after tax paying for retrenchments and voluntary severance and retirement packages as it looks to cut costs in an increasingly competitive telecommunications
The ANC has won an award for creating the largest political app on social networking site Mxit, the party said on Monday. “To date, the ANC mobile application has received 717 000 downloads and has 430 000 active users,” spokesman Zizi Kodwa
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa director Bernie Fanaroff will retire at the end of next year. Former South African Nuclear Energy Corporation CEO Rob Adam will take over as “director designate” of the project, which will
Load shedding occurred on Sunday to ensure South Africa’s power grid did not suffer a blackout, Eskom said. This followed the collapse of a coal silo, silo number 20, at the Majuba power station early Saturday afternoon, thereby severely
The leafy Johannesburg suburb of Parkhurst, one of the first in South Africa to get high-speed fibre-to-the-home broadband, now looks set to be the scene of a turf war between two competing fixed-line telecommunications providers. It’s a David vs Goliath battle that could also help decide which
The crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo experimental space plane on Friday, which killed one test pilot and severely injured another, may have wrecked the future of space tourism. “For the industry, the joyride is over,” says attorney Michael Listner