Samsung’s awkwardly named Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is the Korean manufacturer’s follow-up to the hugely successful Galaxy Tab 10.1, the device that presented the first real competition to Apple’s market-leading iPad. However, its follow-up not only fails to match Apple’s latest offering but only incrementally improves upon
SA’s fourth mobile operator, Telkom-owned 8ta, is upending its prepaid tariff model, ditching the plans it’s had in place since its launch nearly two years ago and introducing new rewards-based tariffs clearly designed to improve the loss-making brand’s average revenue per user (Arpu). 8ta senior managing
Government has not yet made any decisions about whether it will buy out minority shareholders in Telkom and delist the telecommunications company from the JSE and discussions about the company’s future remain “exploratory”. That’s the
For a film of its name, Pixar’s Brave feels positively timid. Though touted as a breakthrough for Pixar and the wider animation industry — it’s the animation studio’s first film co-directed by a woman and to feature a female lead character — Brave is as conventional as a Disney fairy tale. That’s not to say that
Auditor-general Terence Nombembe has cleared communications minister Dina Pule of wrongdoing around the recent ICT Indaba hosted by the department of communications, the department said in a statement on Friday. This follows a series of reports in the Sunday Times in June and July in which it was
State-owned telecommunications infrastructure company Broadband Infraco has reduced its net losses in the 2012 financial year ended 31 March 2012, reporting a loss for the year of R95m against a loss of R206m in the 2011 financial year.
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Communications minister Dina Pule is in the spotlight after a dossier of allegations against her was leaked to the Mail & Guardian this week. The dossier, substantial elements of which were independently confirmed to the M&G by communication department officials familiar with the circumstances, paints a picture
The labour court in Johannesburg on Thursday set aside a labour department decision to deregister the Communication Workers Union (CUW). The court further stopped the department from publishing the deregistration of the union in the Government Gazette after an urgent interdict by the CWU. The CWU and the department
Intelsat 20, a new communications satellite that will serve the future needs of MultiChoice, which owns pay-TV service DStv, blasted successfully into space overnight aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle from Kourou in French Guiana. Lift-off occured at 10.54pm SA time on Thursday night. At 28 minutes after launch, at
Cabinet has approved a new bill that will allow government to take action in civil courts against people who dodge e-tolls, The Star newspaper reported on Friday. The Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill was approved by cabinet in anticipation of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), which
