SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng announced last month that 80% of all films broadcast on one of the public broadcaster’s channels, SABC3, will from July be locally made
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When Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko took the helm three years ago, the South African company was struggling with record losses and a share price close to all-time lows. Now, the phone operator is
After a Herculean victory over telecommunications giant Vodacom for being the rightful inventor of “please call me”, Nkosana Makate has yet again been dragged back to court. A fresh legal battle
Oracle recently lost its attempt to use patent and copyright law to force Google to pay US$9bn for using parts of its Java computer language. Nine billion dollars isn’t chump change, not even for Google, but despite the
Given the amount of capital South Africa’s big mobile operators are pouring into their networks – well over R20bn between them this year alone – one could be forgiven for thinking the industry isn’t facing the serious headwinds many are predicting in the
In the wake of Vodacom’s decision to close down its M-Pesa mobile money service in South Africa at the end of this month, a pioneer of mobile financial services for the mass market, Brian Richardson, CEO of Wizzit International, has
During a particularly harsh winter, a group of hacktivists spreads panic by bringing down the US power grid. Millions of homes and businesses are plunged into darkness, communications are cut, banks go offline, hospitals close and air traffic is grounded
Government’s slow advance on its digital television set-top box roll-out is holding back faster, more widely available mobile Internet services, say experts. It’s been almost a year
When most people think or speak about Internet freedom, they are often concerned with the right, for example, to say what you want online without censorship and without being subject to the chilling
The blockchain is best known as the technology that underpins and facilitates Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But it is highly diverse and can be applied in a variety of instances. In essence, a blockchain is a computer protocol that enables the