Last month, Sony published the artsy Heavy Rain with the lofty goal of expanding the emotional range of videogames. Its new PlayStation 3 exclusive, God of War 3, simply wants to make 14-year-old boys — real and inner — marvel at its violence and spectacle.
In that, the game is a spectacular success. [...]
The company that in many respects started SA’s broadband price war, Afrihost, says it will introduce low-cost and uncapped broadband packages from early next week.
And its prices will, at the very least, match MWeb’s.
Afrihost’s move comes just a day after MWeb, which is owned by media giant Naspers, took SA’s Internet industry by surprise by [...]
Just a day after MWeb dropped a bombshell on SA’s Internet industry by slashing broadband prices and introducing uncapped offerings, Vox Telecom subsidiary @lantic has struck back, undercutting MWeb and setting the stage for a full-blown price war.
@lantic has introduced three uncapped products, including ADSL line rental and uncapped data bundles, starting at just [...]
Writing in defence of rights management and in response to my comment on his interview, Spoor & Fisher’s Owen Dean says he and I “approach copyright from two diametrically opposed departure points”. We do. But Dean goes on to misconstrue what I wrote in a number of ways
MWeb, facing criticism from some consumers over fair-use provisions in the terms and conditions of its new, uncapped broadband packages, will meet with its legal team on Tuesday to consider amendments to them.
The company, which operates the Twitter feed FreeTheWebSA, tweeted on Friday morning that it was considering amendments to the terms and conditions following [...]
The second and final stage of the introduction of fixed-line number portability, which will allow individual Telkom customers to switch networks without losing their numbers, has been delayed by about five weeks.
The first phase of fixed-line number portability, also known as geographic number portability (GNP), kicked off in May last year; the second, more important [...]
MWeb dropped a bombshell on the SA Internet industry on Thursday morning when it announced it was slashing the cost of fixed-line broadband and introducing uncapped offerings starting at just R219/month. The move, which brings SA more in line with Internet prices in other markets, could spark a price war among Internet service providers in the next few months.
Altech will soon expand into Brazil and China, and increase its presence in India and Nigeria, as the JSE-listed IT and telecommunications group seeks to step up its exposure to fast-growing emerging markets, says CEO Craig Venter.
The group’s vehicle tracking subsidiary Netstar will announce plans soon to establish a presence in the vast Brazilian market, [...]
A company partly owned by communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda was allegedly unlawfully awarded a R67,8m tender by the Gauteng roads and transport department, the DA said on Thursday.
DA Gauteng corruption spokesman Jack Bloom said GNS Risk Advisory Services, in which Nyanda had 50% share, had benefited from a tender which was not publicly advertised.
“This is [...]
On Digital Media on Thursday unveiled its plans to enter SA’s pay-TV market in May, becoming the first company to compete with incumbent operator MultiChoice and its DStv service.
This is a full list of the channels the ODM service, known as TopTV, will offer at launch.
BASIC
Top One
Top One is a 24-hour general entertainment channel, [...]
