Super 5 Media, the troubled wannabe pay-TV operator formerly known as Telkom Media, has not been granted an extension to a deadline to launch commercial services by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and the matter will now be heard at a public

Exploring Mars and searching for extraterrestrial intelligence are among the topics which will feature at the 62nd International Astronautical Congress, which started in Cape Town on Monday. It is the first time the event, which has attracted more than 2 000 scientists from

Workers at publishing company Trudon, which publishes the Phone Book and the Yellow Pages, will strike against a proposed wage increase of 6%, the Communication Workers Union said on Monday. About 8 000 union members would strike countrywide from Tuesday

Creating jobs isn’t just expensive, it’s getting more expensive. Cloud computing may offer one way of reducing the cost, meaning money allocated to job creation could go further and reduce unemployment faster in the process. This is the view of economist Mike Schüssler

Just a week after TelkomInternet, Telkom’s Internet service provider, announced it was raising the bandwidth caps it imposes on its AllAccess customers, MWeb has introduced new capped packages aimed at the home and small business markets. For the same price, MWeb subscribers

The department of education has begun appointing its first accredited suppliers as part of its teacher laptop initiative to get computers into the hands of all of the country’s teachers. On Thursday, JSE-listed computer company Mustek said it had been given the nod

Brett Haggard is at the helm of the ZA Tech Show podcast again this week, joined by Ben Kelly and Steven Ambrose. They discuss MTN going uncapped, Google+ and its explosive growth, the fight between Apple and Samsung, Nokia’s new N9, and plenty more

Competition played a role in Telkom’s decision to launch uncapped fixed-line broadband services on Friday. But the main reason it’s going uncapped is that it plans to launch video-on-demand (VOD) services within the next year. The move — Telkom is at

This was undoubtedly the week for uncapped broadband news, with MTN, Telkom and iBurst all announcing new products. Your TalkCentral hosts, Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson, unpack all the announcements and what they mean. Also in this week’s podcast, we

Insomniac Games has tried desperately this console generation to become a serious contender for the first-person shooter crown held by Halo and Call of Duty. Yet it has been unable to turn its Resistance series into a triple-A franchise despite the profile Resistance: Fall of Man