It emerged this week, in an article in the Wall Street Journal, that Snapchat, a Californian start-up that develops a smartphone app of the same name popular among teens, recently spurned a US$3bn-plus all-cash offer from Facebook to buy it out. The offer value was at least three times the already
The integrity of the real-world man he is based upon is hotly disputed, but the cinematic character of Captain Phillips in Paul Greengrass’s film of the same name is one of the most nuanced portrayals of heroism we have seen on film this year. As played by Tom Hanks, Phillips is a model of
Telkom has poached Enzo Scarcella from Vodacom to head up marketing. Scarcella, who was responsible to rebranding Vodacom from its traditional blue and green to the red of parent Vodafone, will assume the role of Telkom chief marketing officer at the end of January 2014
The City of Tshwane in Pretoria has launched a website offering an automated wayleave system for telecommunications operators wanting to lay fibre-optic infrastructure in the city. A wayleave is permission to use someone else’s property to deploy infrastructure
The iPhone 5s and 5c, the latest iPhone models from Apple, went on sale in South Africa on Friday, with prices starting at R8 499 for the 16GB version of the iPhone 5c at the iStore, the retail chain operated by Apple distributor Core Group. The phones are also available on contract through
This week’s show focuses on everything from the state of the telecommunications market, to mirror-less photography, gaming and movies. More specifically, the panel of Brett Haggard, Adam Oxford and Tristan Hall discuss Africa Com, Sony’s Alpha 7, Android KitKat
UK company Intelligent Energy believes it has come up with a technology – based on hydrogen fuel cells – that will allow millions of people across Africa with no access to electricity or an unreliable supply of power to keep their mobile phones charged. The company used
Afrihost, which earlier this year introduced aggressively priced mobile broadband offerings in partnership with network operator MTN, has effectively cut the price of mobile data in half until the end of February next year. The move appears to be a reaction to MWeb’s
Weekend newspaper circulation fell by almost 7,5% in the past year, according to an Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) report released on Wednesday. Combined circulation fell from 2,34m copies from July to September last year
Datatec has named Gary Bullard as the new CEO of subsidiary Logicalis Group following the retirement of Ian Cook, who has been appointed as nonexecutive chairman. According to Datatec, Bullard has 25 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industry. In his most recent
