Netflix and other so-called “over-the-top” Internet streaming services will fundamentally disrupt the pay-television industry and communications regulator Icasa is not paying enough attention to the developments
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The most talked-about, futuristic product from Google’s developer show isn’t even finished – but it’s already stoking heated debate. At its I/O conference on Tuesday, Google previewed Duplex, an experimental service
Communications minister Nomvula Mokonyane, appointed to the portfolio by President Cyril Ramaphosa in February, has promised to announce plans soon to kick-start South Africa’s stalled and long-delayed digital
It’s relatively easy these days to find critics of Skype, the popular online calling service that Microsoft acquired in 2011 for US$8.5bn. Former devotees routinely gripe on social media that the software has become
In a submission to communications regulator Icasa on the pay-television market in South Africa, e.tv has warned that free-to-air broadcasting is at serious risk unless regulations are introduced to protect and grow the
The world’s biggest diamond producer says it’s tracked its first diamonds all the way from the mine to jewellery retailers using the technology behind bitcoin. De Beers, which is piloting a scheme using blockchain
ZTE regards the next two weeks as crucial to resolving a US blockade that’s brought its main businesses to a standstill and choked off revenue, signalling the potential collapse of one of the world’s largest makers
On the back of a strong set of financial results for the year ended 28 February 2018, technology group Altron has said it plans to resume dividend payments from its next set of interim results, due after August
MTN Group plans to borrow as much as 400bn naira (US$1.1bn; R13.8bn) in Nigeria this year as Africa’s largest wireless carrier by sales seeks to fund local investment and replace existing debt in the continent’s
Cell C has argued that Netflix and other so-called “over-the-top” services, including its own Black platform, do not pose a significant threat to MultiChoice in the near term. MultiChoice has argued that Netflix and