An object seen in the sky across South Africa on Sunday was a rocket and not a UFO as was widely believed, a satellite tracking expert said on Monday. “What happened was that at 6pm our time [on Sunday], a rocket, called Falcon, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and carrying

JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms’ financial director, David Rivkind, has resigned and will leave the company in mid-November when his employment contract comes to an end. In a statement, Blue Label says Rivkind has resigned “to pursue other opportunities” and that he has made

Will Vodacom’s proposed acquisition of Neotel pass regulatory muster? That’s the question on everyone’s lips now that the mobile operator has confirmed that it is in exclusive talks with a view to buying its smaller rival, which is majority controlled by India’s Tata Communications

Gijima posted a huge, R210,8m loss for its 2013 financial year to June, but management promises its turnaround efforts are starting to bear fruit and says this view is supported through investments from key shareholders. Chairman Robert Gumede says he has put R75m

Vodacom and Neotel have finally confirmed what the market has known for some time: that they are in discussions regarding a potential acquisition by the mobile operator of Tata Communications-controlled operator. The two parties say the talks revolve around Vodacom

Sentech has taken the wraps off its new free-to-air broadcasting platform, Freevision, a competitor to the recently announced OpenView HD that will be to be launched by e.tv sister company Platco Digital in mid-October. Freevision uses Intelsat’s IS-20 satellite – the same one

FNB Connect boss and head of First National Bank’s business operations, Farren Roper, has resigned after five years at the company to pursue an undisclosed business venture in the telecommunications sector. Roper is an admitted attorney and an executive director

Gijima’s management team is “confident” it has taken the “correct strategic decisions” to get the company “back on track”, despite reporting a massive R210,8m loss in the financial year ended 30 June 2013, from a much smaller loss of R50,6m in 2012

Ashton Kutcher, in the titular role of Jobs, promises at a pivotal moment of the movie to “make Apple cool again”. His dull, functional biographical picture about the late Apple founder and CEO, however, is about as cool as a Dell Latitude. It ticks off a list of features, but there isn’t much art or

First National Bank’s tech-savvy CEO, Michael Jordaan, has been appointed chairman of the board of mobile messaging company Mxit. The appointment is effective immediately and, although Jordaan won’t be getting paid in the position and won’t be taking a stake in the company at first, he has the