Consumers can look forward to even cheaper broadband prices, with many new undersea cables set to come online within the next 18 months. It is unclear how much of a decrease is likely, but talk in the industry is of a 10% to 20% drop in local prices
In Douglas Adams’s famous Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series of science-fiction books, interstellar species use Babel fish — “small, yellow, leech-like” creatures that feed on “brain-wave energy” — to translate speech in real time. A team of developers at Google is
Just as every hardware manufacturer has leapt onto the tablet computer bandwagon with varying degrees of success, so, too, they’re racing to get ultraportable laptop computers to market. Toshiba’s latest offering, the Portégé R830, offers great competition in terms of price and features, even
Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has suffered a 25% fall in fourth quarter profits while one of its biggest rivals in the smartphone market, Korean electronics giant Samsung, has turned in a profit improvement of more than 70% for the same
We can look forward to another banner year for the gaming industry with new hardware incoming in the form of the Wii U and the PlayStation Vita as well as a strong slate of games due for release throughout 2012
We can look forward to another banner year for the gaming industry with new hardware incoming in the form of the Wii U and the PlayStation Vita as well as a strong slate of games due for release throughout 2012. Here are six of our most anticipated titles
Despite giant strides in the right direction in the past few years in opening up SA’s telecommunications market — making it more competitive and transparent — there are still pockets of monopolistic behaviour. One of these is the application-to-person (A2P) SMS market in SA, which is worth more than R1bn/year in revenue for the mobile network
Codecademy is a website that hopes to teach the world to code using interactive games and cumulative lessons. Now the company has launched a project called Code Year that intends to get people to sign up for a weekly coding class as a new year’s resolution and has signed up more than 124 000 people in
In this, the third of the annual ZA Tech Show holiday specials, the team takes a look at the year ahead and makes some predictions for 2012. Your holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle is onboard for a run-through of some of what’s to come
There’s been plenty of talk about the need for greater mobile data coverage in rural areas but it’s easy to become blasé about it when you’re ensconced in a coverage-rich metropolis for 350 days of the year. Hit the road and the plight of those who live with abysmal or nonexistent data coverage becomes clear