Faritec management remains confident that the troubled JSE-listed IT group will return to profitability in the financial year to June 2010, in spite of expecting to report a loss in the six months to December 2009.
However, it has had to seek an additional R60m in funding to ensure it has sufficient working capital.
“In order to [...]
TechCentral’s entertainment critic, Lance Harris, looks back at the year in cinema and names the top 10 films of 2009. His list is based only on films released to SA cinemas during the year. Many of the films that have dominated international critics’ best of 2009, like Jason Reitman’s Up In the Air, will only [...]
Two years ago I participated in a “CIO Christmas wishlist” for a local industry publication. Re-reading that list, it is sobering to see just how many of those wishes still stand. Here’s my 2009 list. I’m not holding my breath, though my tongue remains firmly in my cheek
State-owned Sentech will use its telecommunications licence to land a new, high-capacity international cable system in SA.
A consortium comprising 25 investors, led by France Telecom/Orange, will pay for the construction of the 14 000km system, known as the Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) cable.
The Ace system will have a design capacity of 1,9Tbit/s and is [...]
Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou is our special guest in our final podcast for 2009. In this episode — number 93 — Anastasiou joins Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss Mark Shuttleworth, the Joojoo Internet tablet, Google’s Nexus One smartphone, and much more
Vodacom subsidiary Gateway Communications is upping its investment in Nigeria, with plans to roll out broadband wireless services across 10 states in the highly populated West African nation.
Gateway West Africa MD John Dindlebeck says the company has acquired access to the 10,5GHz radio frequency band in the Nigerian states of Kano, Kaduna, Rivers, Delta, Abuja, [...]
DStv has launched a second high-definition channel, Discovery HD Showcase. The new channel, which is available to subscribers with an HD personal video recorder (HD PVR), was launched on Monday, 21 December.
MultiChoice, which forms part of the JSE-listed Naspers media stable, plans to launch as many as three new HD channels in the next few [...]
Few films arrive as burdened by expectation as James Cameron’s sci-fi epic, Avatar. Years in gestation, the film cost anywhere between US$200m and $400m to produce, depending which source you believe.
It’s Hollywood’s biggest bet to date on three-dimensional (3D) cinema — and if it’s a success the floodgates could open for a string of big-budget [...]
Ever since the first vi user met the first emacs user, the IT industry has been plagued with intense debates about very little. No fact or rational argument will convince either side they might be wrong. As the discussion depends on what the participants believe, these are often described as religious debates
This is the second and final part of TechCentral’s inaugural technology “Newsmakers of the Year” awards. These are the people who made the headlines in 2009. And, for the most part, they are also happen to be the people who made a real difference in the technology year that was.
Who is our top Newsmaker of [...]
