Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has suffered a 25% fall in fourth quarter profits while one of its biggest rivals in the smartphone market, Korean electronics giant Samsung, has turned in a profit improvement of more than 70% for the same

We can look forward to another banner year for the gaming industry with new hardware incoming in the form of the Wii U and the PlayStation Vita as well as a strong slate of games due for release throughout 2012

We can look forward to another banner year for the gaming industry with new hardware incoming in the form of the Wii U and the PlayStation Vita as well as a strong slate of games due for release throughout 2012. Here are six of our most anticipated titles

Despite giant strides in the right direction in the past few years in opening up SA’s telecommunications market — making it more competitive and transparent — there are still pockets of monopolistic behaviour. One of these is the application-to-person (A2P) SMS market in SA, which is worth more than R1bn/year in revenue for the mobile network

Codecademy is a website that hopes to teach the world to code using interactive games and cumulative lessons. Now the company has launched a project called Code Year that intends to get people to sign up for a weekly coding class as a new year’s resolution and has signed up more than 124 000 people in

In this, the third of the annual ZA Tech Show holiday specials, the team takes a look at the year ahead and makes some predictions for 2012. Your holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle is onboard for a run-through of some of what’s to come

There’s been plenty of talk about the need for greater mobile data coverage in rural areas but it’s easy to become blasé about it when you’re ensconced in a coverage-rich metropolis for 350 days of the year. Hit the road and the plight of those who live with abysmal or nonexistent data coverage becomes clear

Well-known entrepreneur and investor and former Google SA boss Stafford Masie believes near-field communication (NFC) technology will fail as a mainstream transactional platform and local banks’ attempts to implement systems based on it are “farcical” and offer “no value”. NFC is a set of standards that

The ZA Tech Show holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle run through TechCentral’s International Newsmakers of the Year list. They pick their top technology products and news stories from 2011

Super 5 Media, formerly known as Telkom Media, still wants to offer pay-TV services to South Africans, more than three years after first being licensed, and has requested yet another extension from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to launch its products. In a notice published in the Government Gazette