Technology group Altech, part of the JSE-listed Altron stable, on Thursday evening announced that it is making a big play into the video-on-demand and home automation markets with a new, satellite-based home entertainment product called the Node that it hopes will become a

Iono.fm is one of South Africa’s largest audio content aggregators and offers on-demand audio services for radio stations and other audio content providers. “When we started, we wanted to develop a personal video recorder (PVR)-like service for radio stations and build an audio-on-demand

Power utility Eskom was not there to make money, but to supply electricity, senior GM Andrew Etzinger said on Thursday. “We provide electricity to our customers, we are not here to make money,” he said at the Powering African Industry conference at Nasrec

A cellphone shop was robbed at Benmore shopping centre in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Thursday. Armed robbers came in and pointed a firearm at the security guard and an employee, said Lt-Col Khensani Magoai. “They took them to the storeroom, forced them to open the safe, and

Absa on Thursday launched Features Store, a new platform it says will give its customers full control over their own transactional banking needs. The online platform is intended to be a one-stop shop where Absa clients can acquire new banking

After a series of failed recordings, the ZA Tech Show team is back in the studio. Brett Haggard is joined by Andy Hadfield and Adam Oxford for a bumper show all about the African start-up tech scene, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4

Cell C will survive with or without “asymmetry” in mobile termination rates, but there is a principle involved that must be defended, the mobile operator’s CEO, Jose Dos Santos, has said. “This company will survive, irrespective of the outcome,” Dos Santos

Thami Mtshali has stepped down as CEO of iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), with financial director Clinton Holroyd being named acting CEO. WBS nonexecutive director David Hilewitz confirmed a report on Wednesday that

Vodacom has announced plans to launch fibre-to-the-business (FTTB) services in South Africa, starting with selected business parks in Gauteng, Cape Town and Durban, which will get access to broadband speeds of up to 100Mbit/s

While the ongoing theft of copper cable continues to cost the economy billions of rand a year, government says it has placed tightening laws to deal with the problem high on its agenda. “The high prevalence of cable theft, in particular copper theft, and its consequences, has become a major