Shortly after 2000, when the dot-com bubble burst, a pall was cast over the technology industry. Internet companies ran out of funding and hit the wall, the Nasdaq crashed and is still valued at a fraction of what it was at the height of the

Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has slammed M-Net for suggesting last week that the country would be better off scrapping plans to build set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television, saying the pay-TV operator is acting out of self-interest only. M-Net’s director for legal

The last six months have seen just about every hardware manufacturer bringing a tablet computer to market. On the whole, they’ve been compared with either the iPad 2 or the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. But we thought we’d compare apples with apples in this

BlackBerry users have been hit by a major outage reportedly affecting the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) across parts of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, including the UK. The extent of the problem isn’t yet clear, but countless SA BlackBerry users began reporting problems

The long-awaited hearings on local-loop unbundling, the process whereby competitors will be given access in some shape or form to Telkom’s “last mile” of copper-cable infrastructure, kick off on Tuesday at the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s offices

iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) says it plans to build a next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) wireless broadband network by mid-2012. LTE is the successor technology to the mobile broadband networks deployed by the country’s mobile networks

M-Net believes SA would be far better off scrapping plans to build pricey set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television and instead should use the money in other ways. Karen Willenberg, the broadcaster’s director of legal and regulatory affairs, says instead the country should

In episode 52 of the TalkCentral podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson ruminate on the untimely death of Steve Jobs, one of the greatest CEOs of modern times. We look back on his achievements but also talk about the “cult of personality” that

“Money is like poison. At the very end, it always kills you,” a gangster’s flame-haired moll tells the antihero of Congolese flick Viva Riva! It’s a brief flicker of trite morality in an otherwise unashamedly blood-soaked and sex-stained film set in Kinshasa where everybody

When TechCentral reviewed LG Electronics’ Optimus Black earlier this year, we were rather impressed with its slim profile, great feature set and reasonable price. So, it was with some excitement that we unboxed its latest relation, the 3D Optimus. Unfortunately