Every September for the past three years, Apple has announced its new product lines. And every year the new features have felt more incremental and less impressive. But does it really matter? Take the product most important to

Smart wearable technologies, such as the Apple Watch, are this year’s “must have” item — their makers are banking on it. Apparently, there is a model for everyone. As always, professional high-tech-trend watchers (a pun now worn on their wrists) are not just selling the commodity

Unofficial imports are hurting sales of a new Indian phone brand in the country, says a local representative. Unofficial, grey or parallel imports are typically cheaper than officially licensed products because they are void of aspects such as warranties or free screen repair programmes

The South African economy may be teetering on the brink of a recession, but that isn’t keeping the country’s telecommunications operators from ramping up their capital spending. Telkom, Vodacom, MTN and Cell C, along with a host of smaller players, are all gearing up to make

Eskom has kept the country’s lights on for five weeks, following a gruelling period of load shedding during winter. However, the power utility cautioned on Sunday that the power system will be tight in the coming days owing to maintenance work. It will undertake planned maintenance

South Africa is set to become the first country outside the US to offer Seagate’s new storage cloud solution when it is launched later this month by the American company’s local partner, Sithabile Technology Services. Seagate Storage Cloud will be hosted at Teraco

Ah, the good old days. Those lovely summer afternoons where one could scoff at George Lucas and the merchandising monstrosity he turned Star Wars into. I might as well be blunt about this: much as I like the Star Wars films and

President Jacob Zuma has announced that cabinet has approved a bill that will help curb copper theft and any vandalism of infrastructure because disrupting infrastructure will be regarded as a more serious crime. The president said these crimes hamper

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Apple’s announcement of its assault on your living room was the matter-of-fact way it revealed it. Apple didn’t need to build a TV after all (although it surely tried, given the rumour-mill in recent years). Rather, Apple announced a fundamental

MTN has just upped the ante in the developing war with rival video-on-demand operators by announcing that it will zero-rate data usage for those streaming content on its FrontRow service. The