After Samsung Electronics’ incredible Galaxy S3 smartphone, we had high hopes for the Korean company’s latest tablet offering, the Android-powered Galaxy Note 10.1. Unfortunately, it was not to be. Although the Note 10.1 has a few standout features – the stereo front-facing speaker system
Online retailer Amazon.com has taken the wraps off its updated range of Kindle e-readers and tablets. Its rivals, especially Apple, should be paying close attention to what is arguably and crucially the only other company with as wide a content ecosystem
Pity the small enterprise pitted against a larger rival muscling in on its turf. Especially when the business is selling the best weed in California and the competition is a ruthless Mexican cartel whose anticompetitive behaviour includes torture and murder
Communications minister Dina Pule and her boyfriend are accused of using sponsors’ funds to buy her luxury gifts, according to a Sunday newspaper report.. Pule and Phosane Mngqibisa have also been on no fewer than 19 overseas trips together, the Sunday Times alleged
Broadcaster e.tv says the most recent draft digital terrestrial television (DTT) regulations published by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) will make it impossible for free-to-air services to compete with DStv and other pay-TV operators. It says the draft regulations, published in July
The Kenyan government is ditching proprietary software in favour of free and open-source software alternatives in a move it hopes will save it money. According to a report in Business Daily, the migration away from proprietary systems will related costs go down by 20% initially but by as much as 80% within three
Attacks claimed by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram targeting mobile phone towers in recent days have also left 15 people dead and buildings burnt, including two schools, officials said Friday. More than two dozen mobile phone towers for various providers have been destroyed in cities across northern Nigeria this week
A major US lobby group’s shock advertising campaign, alleging that MTN is “profiting from torture” in Iran, has been blocked by local agencies. But it claims that SA advertising companies have refused to erect the billboards because of the influence of the telecommunications giant. United Against Nuclear Iran
Depending on who you are, the Nexus is either a villainous professional wrestling team or the framework from which to view the future of IT. According to Wikipedia, the most popular online result for a Google search on the word “nexus” is the wrestling team’s catch phrase, “you are either Nexus or you’re
A radical Islamist sect that has attacked mosques, churches, schools and government buildings at will in Nigeria appears to have added a new target for its violence: mobile phone towers. Attacks in the last day have damaged more than 30 towers operated by all the major providers in the country, further
