It’s a long but fun episode this week as Brett Haggard, Benedict Kelly and Steven Ambrose get together to discuss, among other things, Microsoft’s TV white-space broadband trial, Cell C adding a million new customers in a month, Android reaching a million apps, and more

Brett Haggard and Christo van Gemert go at for a second time in one week, as the first recording goes missing. Dave Greenway joins them for a discussion on thoughts on the incoming ID cards, iPad and iPhone screen rumours, VLC, Intel Yolo, and more

South Africa’s third mobile operator Cell C says it has signed up more than a million customers in July already, setting a monthly record for sign-ups and bringing its total customer base to 11,7m. However, this figure is for gross connections. Net additions, which includes

Finding plumbers, builders and other tradesmen can be a stressful process, with most people relying on suggestions from friends or family rather than simply thumbing through the classifieds. Start-up RedFish is a new online service that’s hoping to change that by allowing consumers to post ads for jobs that need doing

A task team has been established to sort out the financial problems at the SABC, communications minister Yunus Carrim said on Tuesday. “We have decided to set up a high-level team made up of the SABC, the department of communications, national treasury and the auditor-general of South Africa to set a firm foundation for financial

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has outlined the reasons it decided to allow the troubled pay-television operator On Digital Media to launch adult-themed channels on its TopTV platform. Icasa gave TopTV the go-ahead to launch three channels – Private Spice, Desire TV and

Botswana has switched on digital terrestrial television, beating South Africa, its big neighbour to the south, to launch digital broadcasts. However, unlike most other countries in the region, Botswana has opted for a Japanese standard for its roll-out. South Africa spent a year working with its

Mobile TV, the company hoping to introduce mobile television services in South Africa using Korea’s digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) standard, believes there will be substantial demand for its services. But rival Kagiso Media is less convinced. The company wants to offer

Mobile broadband is the primary way South Africans get online because of affordability and speed, but the comparative “instability” of mobile offerings next to fixed lines could harm the economy, according to new report by Research ICT Africa. Mobile broadband

Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn has called on the SABC to provide clarity on the business case for its planned 24-hour news channel. The channel will be carried on DStv, owned by Naspers’s MultiChoice. Shinn says this is necessary given that she claims