When the first Xoom was launched in SA, it was touted by some reviewers as the Android tablet we’d been waiting for. But it turned out to be too heavy and too late, arriving in the country six months after the US and Europe. With the Xoom 2, Motorola’s got the form factor down pat, but lateness to market
Cape Town motorists caught talking or sending text messages on their cellphones would be fined R5 000 and have their phone confiscated for a day, it was reported on Monday. The Cape Times reported that the new bylaw, in effect from Monday, formed part of the provincial road safety campaign to cut road
Westcon, the distribution arm of JSE-listed IT group Datatec, will acquire Iberian and Latin American multinational security, virtualisation and data centre distributor Afina Group in a deal worth as much as €50m (R516m). The deal is being done by way of Westcon’s acquisition
Vodacom has fired the latest shot in the ongoing price war in the mobile industry. The operator is offering existing prepaid customers the option of getting 60 minutes of talk time if they recharge for R5. However, the latest offer is a promotion only and expires at the end of July. Also, the
Spectrum trading, use-it-or-lose-it conditions and wholesale and open-access networks will deliver the broadband growth governments in SA and sub-Saharan Africa are looking for, according to a new research report published by telecommunications investment group Convergence Partners
The Woman in Black, an Edwardian period horror film starring Daniel Radcliffe, is so thick with foggy atmosphere that you almost miss the faint whiff of the ridiculous in the air. This is a film that considers no haunted house cliché too threadbare to use, but that manages to be chilling despite the familiarity of
Mobile operators are hacking and slashing data prices but Telkom’s fixed-line broadband and line rental fees are set to go up at the beginning of August. The operator desperately needs to cut costs, increase efficiency and attract new customers, but it’s caught in a dilemma: it needs to maintain its ground in a
Absa’s online banking website was available only intermittently on Friday, with some users experiencing slow access and other users unable to access the service at all. This follows an interruption to services at the end of May which left many customers frustrated and saw the bank extend its clearing times
Vodacom’s long-running legal dispute with a fixer who recently won a case against it in a Democratic Republic of Congo court is still simmering. And accusations are being made of improper influence over the Congo’s judiciary. The Kinshasa Commercial Court ruled in January that Vodacom
Media group Avusa said last week that 25% of SA video stores had shut up shop in the past year. Rather than the usual culprits of piracy, video on demand and the weak economy, one major industry player is laying the blame squarely at the door of Avusa-owned Nu Metro. Peter Scott, a director at
