We try to avoid football discussions at all costs this week and stick to matters of technology. Arthur Goldstuck, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle are in the house to discuss Diablo 3, SpaceX, cellphone price wars, HTC in Africa, mobile in developing markets and much more

It’s not yet known how Hewlett-Packard’s plan to shed 27 000 jobs in the next two and a half years will affect the company’s SA subsidiary. The IT giant said on Wednesday that it plans to shed the jobs, or about 8% of its worldwide workforce of nearly 350 000 people, by the end of its 2014 financial year

Fixed-line telecommunications operator Telkom was on Wednesday granted leave to appeal by the high court in Pretoria in a case brought against it by ZTE Mzanzi. A court interdict preventing it from continuing with work on a multibillion-rand project to modernise its access network into homes and businesses

Vox Telecom, in conjunction with satellite company Yahsat, has launched satellite broadband services for the African market under the YahClick brand, with prices starting at R163/month. Yahsat, or the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company, is a private company fully owned by

Though Huawei isn’t a newcomer to SA, it’s only really begun to get traction in smartphones this year. It’s best known for its budget handsets but the Chinese company is also looking to tackle the top-end of the market. One of its first attempts is the U8860 “Honor”, a smartphone with a feature-phone price tag

Last Friday, the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa’s) complaints and compliance committee brought Neotel a step closer to gaining access to rival Telkom’s network into homes and businesses. But with the unbundling process underway, albeit belatedly, is it worth continuing the fight?

Extraordinary events took place behind the scenes in SA’s cellphone industry in the past week. Alan Knott-Craig played his first hand as Cell C CEO, slashing prepaid voice prices, and Vodacom reacted almost immediately with new rates of its own. But then the bigger operator botched its counter attack by

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has made an unusual appeal to the constitutional court in a bid to set aside the high court order halting e-tolling, according to reports on Wednesday. In an affidavit, he warns that SA would face a dark economic future if the order was not set aside urgently. According to

Absa on Tuesday released a beta version of its new online banking portal that includes the first steps into personal financial management software.
The widget-based layout is fully customisable and will become the default digital platform for its clients in months to come. Adrian Vermooten, Absa’s deputy

Absa says it is working on smartphone banking applications in the wake of the launch on Tuesday of its overhauled online banking platform. It says the new platform, which took two years to develop, is a necessary step to launching dedicated banking apps for mobile devices. Adrian Vermooten, Absa’s deputy managing