This year saw the 43rd anniversary of e-mail. Compared to a human working life, e-mail has after more than four decades on the job now reached retirement age. Is it time for e-mail to step aside to allow us to embrace the alternative? Every minute in 2012 saw 168m e-mails sent around the world
Android updates don’t matter anymore — or at least that’s what many people think. Back-to-back-to-back Jelly Bean releases and a KitKat release seemed to only polish what already existed. When Google took the wraps off of “Android L” at Google I/O, though, it was clear that this release was different
New music streaming service Mziiki, which is focused on providing access to African artists, is set to launch in South Africa early next year after already having debuted in 12 other markets on the continent. Focused on providing music fans with access to both independent musicians and those
Affordable smartphones are starting to transform the landscape in Africa, getting millions of people across the continent online for the first time, but prices need to fall further and content and applications need to be tailored for local communities and languages, experts said this week
Imagine launching a robotic spacecraft on a 10-year mission to land on a comet 600m kilometres from Earth knowing that you will not be able to make any physical repairs to the craft during the journey. This daunting engineering challenge has been the ultimate goal of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta
The high court in Johannesburg will rule on Thursday on an application by Cell C for an urgent interim interdict against a banner erected by a disgruntled customer. The banner was put up by one George Prokas at the WorldWear Mall on Beyers Naude Drive on 6 November. It bears a logo resembling the
DStv operator MultiChoice has debuted “remote recording”, allowing its subscribers to go online to set recordings on their personal video recorder (PVR) set-top boxes remotely. At the same time, the broadcaster, which is owned by JSE-listed
Cell C’s urgent application to take down a banner referring to them as “the most useless service provider in SA” was about revenge, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. “What this is about is revenge and reprisal,” Shem Symon
Communications minister Faith Muthambi said on Wednesday she is not yet in a position to comment on the Western Cape High Court ruling against SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala. “I have just come directly from a cabinet committee
The banner calling Cell C the most useless service provider in South Africa is defamatory to the point of unlawfulness, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. In an urgent application before judge Sharise Weiner, Christopher Whittcutt, for Cell C, argued the banner was a defamatory
