Brett Haggard, Aki Anastasiou, Steven Ambrose and Charlie Fripp gather in a corridor at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona for a reportback on what the industry had to show off. Topics include near-field communication
It’s a sweltering hot day in the ZA Tech Show’s Johannesburg studio as Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Ben Kelly get together to discuss the Samsung Galaxy S4, the PlayStation 4, the Nokia 206 and much more
New York’s Radio City Music Hall will be packed to the rafters on Thursday night for an event that is garnering almost as much hype as an Apple launch. Samsung Electronics will use the event to unveil the Galaxy S4, the successor the best-selling Android smartphone of 2012, the S3. But the
The crippling strike at the Post Office’s Johannesburg and Pretoria sorting centres hasn’t been called off officially but employees are returning to work. The backlog in undelivered mail is expected to take up to four weeks to process. The strike
There are two ways to see Tomb Raider: as a much-needed reinvention of an ageing franchise, or as dumbing down and actioning up of a much-loved series in a sop to the latest fads in a fickle gaming market. It’s a game that is extremely good at what it does
The proposed tightening of the VAT net on digital goods could lead to a price increase for consumers and an administrative burden for the foreign suppliers of such goods. Foreign businesses and providers of digital goods in South Africa will be required
Technology services company EOH has again reported a solid set of financial results, with headline earnings per share growing by 35,2%, from 126,9c to 171,5c, on the back of sharp growth in group revenue from R1,6bn to R2,4bn. The interim results are for the six-month period ended 31
Randfontein is the fastest town in South Africa as far as broadband is concerned, with a download speed of 11,3Mbit/s, followed by Bryanston, Midrand and Randburg in Johannesburg. Only nine areas in South Africa have an Internet speed faster than the national average
Telkom is again planning to offer its employees the opportunity to take voluntary severance and early retirement packages as it looks to reduce its staff complement to save costs. Employees interested in the offer must apply in a window period opening on 15 March and ending on 31 August
Seacom, the company behind the undersea cable of the same name, has launched a new company, called Pamoja, to offer small and medium-sized enterprises the ability to provide cloud computing-based services to their customers without the capital outlay such services usually require











