Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Guy Taylor get together to discuss everything but the news this week. Topics include LucasArts, up and coming social networks, Guy’s involvement in CloudAfrica, Facebook’s South African user base, HTC and Facebook
The World Economic Forum has painted a shocking picture of South Africa’s education system, and its maths and science education in particular. In the forum’s 2013 Global IT Report, it ranks the country second last for maths and science education and fifth-last for its overall education system. The report
E-tolling on Gauteng roads will begin within the next two months, the roads agency Sanral said on Thursday. “What we are now waiting for is the completion of the parliamentary process, half of which is already done,” Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona said in a statement. “As soon as the national
A revised version of government’s national broadband plan, published in the Government Gazette last week, makes all of the right noises about bridging the digital divide, making connectivity affordable and reducing duplication of infrastructure but, like a previous incarnation, it fails to offer concrete direction
The personal computer industry is under severe pressure. New, preliminary data from research and analyst firm Gartner shows that 79,2m PCs were shipped in the first quarter of 2013, an 11,2% decline over the same quarter in 2012. This is the first time the number had fallen below 80m since the second quarter
MTN is one of 15 operators still in the running for a potentially lucrative mobile telecommunications licence in Myanmar, various news wires reported on Thursday. The shortlist has been whittled down from 90 companies that had expressed an interest in mobile licences that will soon be up for grabs
Government delays in improving broadband Internet access are having a negative impact on the country’s economy, according to rankings by the World Economic Forum (WEF) published in a report on Thursday. In 2013, South Africa occupied 70th
The under-resourced and often ineffective Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has a reputation for lacking teeth when it comes to enforcing order in the telecommunications sector it regulates. For example, there’s still no clear outcome in the case of the alleged unlawful use by wireless Internet
The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday asked the South African Police Service to investigate communications minister Dina Pule, her alleged boyfriend Phosane Mngqibisa, SABC chief financial officer Gugu Duda and SABC CEO Lulama Makhobo over allegations of corruption. “The
Seed Engine, a new start-up accelerator based in Johannesburg has received more than 300 applications for its three-month start-up accelerator programme and chosen six teams of entrepreneurs to benefit from its start-up “boot camp”, which offers mentoring and a shared workspace in Sandton. “At the
