Ashton Kutcher, in the titular role of Jobs, promises at a pivotal moment of the movie to “make Apple cool again”. His dull, functional biographical picture about the late Apple founder and CEO, however, is about as cool as a Dell Latitude. It ticks off a list of features, but there isn’t much art or
First National Bank’s tech-savvy CEO, Michael Jordaan, has been appointed chairman of the board of mobile messaging company Mxit. The appointment is effective immediately and, although Jordaan won’t be getting paid in the position and won’t be taking a stake in the company at first, he has the
Tuesday’s public holiday and the need to braai meant that last week’s episode’s recording was delayed until Wednesday. Albeit a day late, Brett Haggard is joined by Christo van Gemert and Adam Oxford for a discussion on BlackBerry’s buyout deal, BBM for Android and iOS
“I’m in new media,” the 20-something told me when I asked her what she did. “What do you define as new media?” I asked. “You know, Twitter, Facebook, social media,” she replied. It was one of those moments in the Great Change in Media that so many of us old hands must have had when speaking
The Democratic Alliance wants communications minister Yunus Carrim and former SABC interim board chair Ellen Tshabalala to appear before parliament to explain why a deal the public broadcaster signed to supply two television channels to MultiChoice “contradicts government’s policy on digital
Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has slammed a confidential deal struck between the SABC and MultiChoice that prohibits the public broadcaster from offering any of its channels over a television platform that uses encryption technology. E.tv described the move as
Watching BlackBerry over the past few years has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion. The company, whose name was once synonymous with smartphones, has stumbled from one disaster to another. This week, things got a lot worse. BlackBerry
Little is spared in Grand Theft Auto V’s toxic take on contemporary American culture, but it saves its most poisonous barbs for the movie industry. Vinewood, the game’s fictional version of Hollywood, is a world of washed-up stars and paunchy producers pumping out products that don’t matter
South Africa’s online advertising industry can look forward to substantial growth in coming years thanks in part to cheaper smartphones and data. This is according to PwC’s latest annual “South African Entertainment and Media Outlook” report. Unsurprisingly
Telkom group CEO Sipho Maseko has vowed to fight local-loop unbundling (LLU), saying the telecommunications operator’s shareholders shouldn’t be “prejudiced unfairly” by “subsidising” competitors that don’t want to invest in their own infrastructure. “Telkom has been trampled over for quite a
