Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is at a crossroads. The company, with Microsoft, dominated the client-server era of computing. Its chips power most servers and PCs sold today. But the action in the computing industry is no longer in desktops and laptops, but rather in smartphones
Could pay-TV operator MultiChoice, which owns DStv, be forced to allow rival broadcasters access to premium sports and entertainment content that it has bought rights to? If communications minister Dina Pule gets her way, this could happen.Pule told parliament on Tuesday
First National Bank’s tech-savvy CEO, Michael Jordaan, is stepping down. He will leave the bank at the end of 2013, with Jacques Celliers set to take the reins from next year.
According to FNB parent FirstRand Group, Jordaan, who has been CEO of FNB for the past 10 years, wants to “spend more time with his family”
Altron’s offer to buy out minority shareholders in subsidiary Altech and delist the technology and telecommunications company from the JSE is fair, analysts says. Last Friday, Altron made the offer, its second in six years. Both Altech and Altron are listed entities. The move sent
Microsoft on Tuesday night joined the next generation console battle with the announcement of its Xbox One that critics are billing as an all-in-one entertainment device rather than simply a gaming console. While Microsoft gave the world a fairly detailed look at the features and capabilities
Communications minister Dina Pule surprised parliament on Tuesday, announcing that she’s decided to review the policy on the set-top box control system for digital terrestrial television so that its inclusion would no longer be mandatory. The issue of set-top box control has delayed
Imagine being able to direct people to your home, your office, your current location or anywhere else on the planet with a single word rather than a lengthy address or set of GPS coordinates. A three-year-old South African company called Waytag is doing just that. Perhaps the easiest
The ANC in the Western Cape is turning to mobile social media network Mxit in an effort to attract voters in the province, which is controlled by the Democratic Alliance. The party has launched an application on the social platform, called MyANCWC, to “mobilise voters, educate them, and get them to register and vote
The SABC will repay its government-guaranteed loan of R1bn in full within the next few months, communications minister Dina Pule said on Tuesday. Introducing her budget vote debate in the national assembly, Pule said the public broadcaster was accelerating its payback plan. “The SABC plans to
Roelof Botha, the grandson of former South African foreign affairs minister Pik Botha, was closely involved in the funding of social networking site Tumblr, which Yahoo this week agreed to buy for US$1,1bn. Pretoria-born Botha, who served on Tumblr’s board of directors, was also a key role player in the $1,5bn, 2002 sale
