Snow Leopard has landed. Apple’s new operating system, which went on sale in SA last Friday, lives up to the pre-release hype, delivering faster performance and a dramatically smaller installation footprint. Named after the endangered cat native to the mountains of Central Asia, Snow Leopard, more formally known as Mac OS X 10.6, doesn’t introduce [...]
Amid the worst recession in a generation, IT services company GijimaAst is pumping financially, thanks to increased spending on technology by government. The company has lifted its dividend by 43%, to 5c/share, and reported sales up 20% in an industry where average sales growth in the past year has been about 5%. The results have [...]
Consumers are being duped into believing that mobile call costs are going to plummet once the country’s cellular network operators begin reducing call termination rates, the fees they charge to carry calls on each other’s networks. That’s the view of Jacques du Toit, MD of VoxOrion, a subsidiary of JSE-listed telecommunications group Vox Telecom. “What [...]
The “shocking” R9,7bn loss posted by Eskom this week was the result of years of bad management, the Cape Chamber of Commerce said on Thursday. In the five years before the blackouts started, Eskom made a profit of R33,5bn, said chamber director Albert Schuitmaker. Most of that money had gone to the government in taxes [...]
A group of actors, producers, writers and directors demonstrated on Thursday against the SABC’s planned R500m cut of local content. The protesters, from the Television Industry Emergency Coalition, danced and sang “what have we done” outside the broadcaster’s headquarters in Auckland Park. They also performed a two-minute play showing the public broadcaster as the grim [...]
Duncan McLeod, Toby Shapshak, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are on the panel this week. They discuss District 9, the impact of piracy, Neotel’s NeoGo service, and much more…
Special guest Dwayne Bailey from Translate.org.za adds his voice to the show this week, along with regulars Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard, Simon Dingle and, later, Samantha Perry
District 9, directed by Johannesburg-born Neill Blomkamp, smashes together the grimy, urban dystopias of Blade Runner and Robocop with the equally bizarre parallel universe of SABC television during the Total Onslaught years to create the most compelling science fiction film of 2009. In District 9’s alternate history, a massive spaceship containing a race of dispirited [...]
The department of communications has agreed to fund an R11m pay-out to former SABC CEO Dali Mpofu, the public broadcaster’s interim board has said. The board on Friday said the settlement was an important step forward. “As part of the agreement, the former CEO has agreed to withdraw all pending legal actions against the corporation,” [...]
Striking Telkom workers have refused to hand over their memorandum of grievances to anyone but CEO Reuben September. “Re eme mo mona, ga re tsitsinyege [we are standing here, we are not moving],” they sang during a march to Telkom headquarters in Pretoria on Wednesday, threatening to sleep there if September did not receive their [...]
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