The lack of fibre-optic transmission networks outside SA’s main urban centres could prove a huge stumbling block to rolling out next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) networks in rural areas and add significant costs for operators wanting to meet roll-out obligations for these networks. Richard Morse, group technology executive

JSE-listed technology group EOH has reported numbers for the first half to end-January. Without doubt, this is one of the most amazing success stories over the past decade anywhere in the market. The company has grown both organically and through acquisition and done so without fail. To illustrate my point, revenue for the half

If you believe the claptrap coming out of the Apple camp in the past week, then you’ll accept as gospel that the era of the personal computer is over. Nothing could be further from the truth. The PC is alive and well; it’s just being reinvented. Listening to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s keynote speech at the launch of the iPad 3 (sorry, the “new iPad”) last week

JSE-listed technology group EOH has continued its strong growth momentum in the six months to end-January, adding 44,1% in sales to more than R1,6bn and lifting profit by 51,5% to R106,5m. It now has almost R400m in cash on its balance sheet. The growth was both organic and from acquisitions

Encyclopaedia Britannica, mortally wounded by the Web and Wikipedia, is ending the production of its print edition in favour of a strictly digital strategy, the company announced Tuesday. “It’s a rite of passage in this new era,” Encyclopaedia Britannica president Jorge Cauz told the New York Times. First published

You might think that this here Internet broadcast is about technology. And usually you’d be right. In this episode, however, Craig Wilson, Nic Callegari, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle do a terrible job of attempting to discuss the new iPad, Windows 8, Nokia tablet rumours, a new Xbox, and much more

The ZA Tech Show welcomes anothers newcomer to this week, with Dave Greenway joining Jon Tullett, Simon Dingle and Steven Ambrose to talk through Mobile World Congress 2012, Google’s dominance in mobile, Windows 8 Consumer Preview, spectrum issues, and much more

Ewan Sutherland, visiting adjunct professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, says corruption has become endemic in the telecommunications industry worldwide — and particularly in emerging markets. He says it’s becoming vital that this corruption

From 1 September this year, all motor vehicles registered for the first time will need to be fitted with microdots that comply with the requirements of the National Road Traffic Act. Microdots are tiny metallic discs that have a unique code inscribed in them and can be read using a microscope. Furthermore, all motor vehicles

MTN SA has told the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) that a second digital migration may be necessary once the move from analogue to digital television broadcasting has been completed because of the fragmentation of the spectrum that will be freed up when analogue signals are turned off