Newly appointed Vodacom SA MD Sipho Maseko has been awarded 74 142 shares in the telecommunications group at an average price of R90,37/share, making the allocation worth R6,7m. The shares vest on 25 November 2014. Maseko, who was formerly CEO of BP Southern Africa, took the reins

In The Social Network, scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin created a thriller about a geek building a website in a Harvard college dorm. With Moneyball, a new vehicle for Brad Pitt, he fashions a fascinating but uneven sports drama from the arcane topic of how

Dimension Data division Internet Solutions is hoping for clarity and certainty from the local-loop unbundling framework document that the communications regulator will publish in the Government Gazette next week but has reservations about how much

Mobile phones are the most widely used technology in the world. At the end of this year, there will be 5,8bn people with mobile devices, meaning there are twice as many mobile users as Internet users. Consequently, there are myriad opportunities to make a

One of the complaints often leveled at the iPad by business users is that it’s not exactly the best device if you need to do lots of typing. A number of accessory manufacturers have responded with Bluetooth keyboards, and Capdase’s compact offering is an

Ster-Kinekor has confirmed that the Velskoen drive-in in Randburg, Johannesburg will close next year. It is the last of its drive-ins and the company says the decision comes as a result of declining audiences, which is says isn’t unique to SA. “Cinema audiences

Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson are in the TalkCentral studio to bring you a news-filled podcast. We look at government’s withdrawal of the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill and what it means. We also look at Telkom’s broadband and video

Details are emerging of plans for the construction of yet another high-capacity submarine telecommunications cable to serve the African continent. The Wasace cable, which will connect Africa, including SA, with South America, North America and Europe, and which will cost

Naspers-owned Internet service provider MWeb has launched a social media campaign in an attempt to pressure Telkom to stop forcing its broadband asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) customers to pay for telephone line rental if they don’t have a fixed-line

Before the decade is out, newspapers and magazines will have had to have moved to some sort of digital platform. They have less than 10 years left to try and make as much money out of paper as possible before print becomes unsustainable. These are the views of Alistair Fairweather