The podcast crew is drinking beer and using stage microphones on the show again this week as Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Guy Taylor discuss Amazon’s new Kindles, Nokia’s coming smartphones, migrating between mobile ecosystems, Windows 8 and hacking Android
Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has filed papers in the high court in Johannesburg against communications minister Dina Pule, accusing of her acting unlawfully in appointing Sentech to manage the control system that will be used in the set-top boxes that are needed for consumers to receive digital terrestrial television signals
American indie hit Beasts of the Southern Wild is set in a place so magical that it could be straight from a fable, though it is also as grounded as the New Orleans lashed by Katrina a few years ago. It’s a delta community cut off from the rest of the world by the levee and in danger of sinking beneath saltwater every time bad weather
Pashash, founded by two University of Cape Town graduates, wants to provide shoppers with a place to share their favourite finds — from bargains to unusual trinkets to the latest fashions, while also letting them search the service for items they may be looking for in their area. In addition to being one of only
Their father’s death, at the age of just 33, played a big role in shaping the lives of brothers Mark and Brett Levy, the founders and co-CEOs of JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms. It also gave them some of the drive they needed to thrive in business, says Mark Levy. “I was eight and Brett had just turned five
Samsung has launched its latest ultra-premium TV, the 75-inch ES9000, in the SA market. And, believe it or not, there are South Africans lining up to buy it, despite its six-digit price tag. The TV includes a pop-up high-definition camera in its top bezel. It offers motion and voice control, along
The Durban Internet Exchange (Dinx), located at data centre operator Teraco’s Riverhorse Valley facility, joins the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (Jinx) and the Cape Town Internet Exchange (Cinx) as the third dedicated exchange in SA to go live. Its backers promise better local connectivity and network redundancy
Net1 UEPS Technologies, the Nasdaq- and JSE-listed technology company that recently won a R10bn tender for the payment of social grants in SA, has won the right to appeal a high court decision that found the tender process was illegal and invalid
Not only is Telkom appealing against the Competition Tribunal’s ruling that found the fixed-line operator guilty of anticompetitive behaviour, but now the Competition Commission has filed “cross appeal” against sections of the tribunal’s findings and wants Telkom to face a higher penalty than the R449m the tribunal imposed on
MTN looks likely to be the first mobile operator in SA to be able to take advantage of the advanced wireless broadband functionality built into the latest iPhone from Apple. The US company on Wednesday said the iPhone 5 supports next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) wireless broadband networks offering
