A new flight aggregator start-up website, CompareTravel, wants to make it easier for SA consumers to compare ticket prices for domestic flights on any of the number of low-cost airlines that have taken flight in the past decade. The biggest
The keynote address by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco was distinctly underwhelming. Is the world’s most valuable technology company running short of groundbreaking new ideas?
It’s one of the most important pieces of technology in the modern world, a secure gateway to all the wonders and conveniences of the Internet. It’s a tool used every day by billions of people for everything from banking to learning to
Independent news website The Daily Maverick plans to launch what it’s calling SA’s first daily newspaper designed specifically for Apple’s iPad tablet computer. It’s a move that could add new spice to the country’s media landscape and put pressure on daily
Telkom has run into fresh trouble in attempts to sell the wireless arm of its troubled Nigerian subsidiary, Multi-Links, to that country’s Visafone. On Tuesday, a Nigerian high court found in favour of Helios Towers in a dispute over the validity of a site lease
He was once one of Bill Gates’s top lieutenants at Microsoft and was closely involved in the development of the client-server model of computing. Now Zimbabwean-born and SA-educated Paul Maritz, CEO of US cloud computing specialist VMware, says
Mustek has pulled the plug on a plan to delist from the JSE. A consortium led by CEO David Kan and the Trinitas Private Equity Fund had wanted to execute a management buy-out of the technology company and take it private. Kan says during the preparations
With live blogs rolling in the background Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle discuss Microsoft’s Xbox announcements at E3, Android tablets and how Honeycomb stacks up, Apple’s Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud announcements, and much more
Apple CEO Steve Jobs opened the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, demoting the computer to “just a device” and talking up how it wants to “move your hub, the centre of your digital life, into the cloud”
Newspapers won’t die out, but publishers need to recognise that they are in the journalism business, not the newsprint business, and must embrace a range of news delivery vehicles. That’s the view of Peter Barron, Google’s director of external affairs