Eskom fights to keep the lights on

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The demand for electricity was set to increase by about 2% in 2011 as the country’s economy recovered, Eskom CEO Brian Dames said on Thursday. “Therefore, we are targeting every day

Tempered Christmas cheer for e-retailers

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SA’s top online stores have all enjoyed marked growth over the same period last year, with some reporting up to 40% year-on-year sales increases. However, an analyst says the performance could

SES eyes Africa growth with €1bn satellites

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Europe’s SES group, which operates a worldwide fleet of more than 40 communications satellites, is establishing a bigger presence in SA ahead of the launch later this year of a new, high-capacity satellite

ZA Tech Show: Episode 142 – ‘CES slamwich’

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The first show of the year comes to you from Las Vegas, Nevada where the ZA Tech Show attended CES 2011. In the show: car makers at CES, Facebook’s US$50bn valuation, the storage revolution, tablet computers, Star Wars, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8, and much more

Digital TV standards row rages on

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The battle over which standard SA will use for digital terrestrial television rages on, with a plan by the National Association of Manufacturers in Electronics Components (Namec) to contest a decision by cabinet in favour of the European system

Is Facebook really worth $50bn?

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We’re pretty used to hearing outlandish valuations on Internet companies that, if they were people, would be barely out of nappies. It happened during the first dot-com boom, and it’s happening again now. But news that Facebook is

Telkom frets over November local-loop deadline

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Telkom says the deadline for unbundling the local loop, the “last mile” of copper cables that connects consumers to its network, is “unrealistic”. Telkom’s chief of corporate governance, Ouma Rasethaba

Africa’s undersea cable boom continues

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Yet another undersea cable has been commissioned for the coast of Africa. When it’s built next year, it will bring total capacity encircling the continent to more than 20,2Tbit/s. In the year 2000 Africa’s total international

Thieves steal Sim cards from Jo’burg traffic lights

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The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) suspects that a syndicate is stealing Sim cards from the city’s hi-tech traffic lights, and using them to run up phone bills. More than 400 of the city’s 600 hi-tech traffic lights