Songstress Taylor Swift, 25, and U2 frontman Bono, 54, have very different views of the streaming music phenomenon that is upending the music industry’s business model. Late last year, Swift pulled her songs
TechCentral is looking for a journalist. And not just any journalist. We are on the hunt for someone who can not only accurately and fairly cover South Africa’s exciting technology sector but also help set the agenda for the industry.
The annual International CES consumer electronics show running in Las Vegas this week has highlighted what industry, at least, believes is our technology-enabled future. This year, it seems to lie totally with the
Africa’s network operators need to make a New Year’s resolution that they will work to make their data cheaper for their users and improve the quality of their networks. Data creates significant revenue challenges for Africa’s mobile operators, and they must be prepared
It’s the first TalkCentral podcast of 2015. In the show this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the best products to be announced at this year’s International CES – just don’t call it the Consumer Electronics Show! From the Gogoro Smartscooter
State-owned energy company Eskom began rolling blackouts at 11am on Friday. “Due to the electricity demand that has exceeded the supply, Eskom implemented load shedding Stage 1 from 11h00 until
There is no quick fix for the rolling blackouts, Eskom’s financial issues and its maintenance backlog, so South Africans will have to learn to “live with it”, an energy sector analyst said on Friday
The acclaimed new movie The Imitation Game is based on the too-short life of Alan Turing, the British mathematician and “father” of computer science. But how true-to-life is it and what can we learn from it? The movie concentrates on the code breaking
Power utility Eskom is 21 days from going broke, the minister of public enterprises has confirmed. “Eskom will run out of money by the end of January,” minister Lynne Brown said this week. Brown confirmed the “pressure on the company’s liquidity
Eskom’s financial issues are partly responsible for the country’s rolling blackouts, it said on Friday. “Eskom does have financial issues. It is true that we are having financial crunch and we are currently in discussion