Despite already offering cheap voice and broadband deals to its customers, First National Bank is extending its presence in the space by offering cellphone contracts with handsets at subsidised rates in conjunction with Cell C. In a move meant to drive customers to electronic

In notes accompanying its interim financial results, released on Monday, Telkom has confirmed that by 2015 the slowest broadband package on its fixed-line network will offer download speeds of up to 2Mbit/s, from 384kbit/s now, and up to 40Mbit/s at the top end. The company has also

Few films have provoked as much controversy and heated debate as Straw Dogs, the classic 1971 revenge thriller from Sam Peckinpah. Pauline Kael, an admirer of the director, famously called it “the first American film that is a fascist work of art” – and that was in a review

SA Internet company Incubeta Holdings has purchased local online media company Interface Holdings in a share-and-cash deal worth R100m as part of what it calls a “global expansion into the lucrative small and medium

The pressure is on at Telkom. The JSE-listed telecommunications group says tougher trading conditions, growing competition, regulatory challenges and fixed-to-mobile substitution have put pressure on revenue and

London-based company ForgetMeNot Africa wants to take services such as e-mail, instant messaging and social media to basic cellphones to increase African connectivity and digital engagement. Perhaps most appealing is that its offerings work on any phone that can

The US$700m Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) project to lay a high-capacity, 5,1Tbit/s submarine cable between France and SA is making good progress, with news late this week that the system has landed in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. The cable, which is co-owned by

JSE-listed media company Avusa has decided to close its group-buying business Zappon. It believes the deal-a-day group-buying model, pioneered by the US’s Groupon, is flawed but hasn’t ruled out relaunching a reworked model of the service in future. Groupon enjoyed early success with the

Questions are swirling after Telkom said this week that, for the first time since its listing on the JSE in March 2003, it will not hold a presentation to talk about its interim financial results, which are due to be published on Monday. The results presentations, held every

There’s a lot of money in Apple accessories: just ask Built, Crumpler, iHome, Griffin, JBL or any of the other companies that make the myriad cases, docks, cables and other accessories Apple doesn’t include in the box. Swiss company Logitech has long been on the iAccessory bandwagon