If you go to the Broadacres SuperSpar in Johannesburg’s far north, you’ll notice something out of the ordinary on the shelves. In the place of the usual paper price labels and barcodes are electronic tags displaying the prices of the products on sale. If you’ve been in a supermarket in Western Europe or Japan in [...]
This week 24 years ago, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. This fascinating video presentation, put together by Duncan Maile using virtual machine software, shows how the operating system has progressed since then, up to Windows Vista, released in 2006.
In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared, says The New York Times. The start-up company came out of nowhere, building a database [...]
With only 10 episodes remaining before the ZA Tech Show’s 100th episode, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle get together to discuss the looming fines for Telkom, iBurst’s 20Mbit/s ADSL2+ service, Foursquare and other social networking games, and plenty more
Norway’s Opera Software estimates that it has as about 1,5m active users of its Web browser software for mobile phones in SA. Opera, which develops browsers for a range of mobile handsets and for desktop computers, has enjoyed exponential growth of its products on cellular phones, especially on lower-cost devices. Opera Software chief strategy officer [...]
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) on Friday welcomed a supreme court of appeal decision to set aside a decision on the referral of a complaint against Telkom to the Competition Tribunal. Ispa said in a statement the decision paved the way for the Competition Tribunal to finally examine Telkom’s conduct in the Internet services [...]
Few games this console generation have been as divisive among critics and gamers as Assassin’s Creed from Ubisoft’s Montreal studio. Depending on which side of the fence you sit on, the 2007 game is either a repetitive and pretentious snore-fest or a stylish, immersive title that proves big-budget games can be both innovative and artistic. [...]
The supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein has dealt a big blow to Telkom, opening the way for the telecommunications operator to fined as much as R7bn for alleged anti-competitive abuses. The court has ruled in favour of the Competition Commission, which had appealed an earlier judgment by the high court in Telkom’s favour. The [...]
Telkom plans to retrench 4 000 temporary and contract workers “unfairly”, according to trade union Solidarity. “Employees’ contracts expire in March and April 2010, but contracts have ended abruptly,” said Solidarity’s spokeman Jaco Kleynhans in a statement. The trade union has urged Telkom to halt the retrenchments. “Telkom failed to follow the correct process of [...]
When classified advertising specialist Junk Mail Publishing was founded in 1992, few people had heard of the Internet. Seventeen years later, the worldwide computer network has turned entire industries on its head, not least of them publishing. Junk Mail, which produces dead-tree products in Junk Mail, CapeAds, and AutoMart, among others, has been forced to [...]
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