Apple CEO John Ternus. Carlos Barria/Reuters Sales of Apple’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, began on Friday, with market watchers betting on whether the device can reinvent the small foldables market in the same way the iPhone did for smartphones. The Duo’s reception could be an early test for new CEO John Ternus, the…
The success of South Korean popular music or K-pop continues to power the Hallyu Wave, a term that describes the global obsession with the country’s pop culture production. But before K-pop came the spread of K-drama, TV series from the country, starting in the late 1990s. By 2024 the melodrama Queen of Tears ranked as…
Local Apple reseller iStore has officially revealed South African pricing for Apple’s inaugural foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, alongside the latest lineup of connected smart home hardware. Read: ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo Review: Two-screen titan The iPhone Duo instantly becomes the highest-priced model in iStore’s smartphone catalogue. Local pricing across all four storage tiers stands…
MultiChoice’s revenue fell 3% on a like-for-like basis in the nine months to September, driven by lower subscription revenue in South Africa, its French owner Canal+ said on Thursday. The decline eased in the third quarter to 2% year on year, from 3.4% in the first half, which Canal+ attributed partly to “favourable comparison effects…
South Africans could one day use the digital ID home affairs is building to “seed” a payment credential under the Reserve Bank’s PEMKey programme, sparing them a separate onboarding process, according to DIDx founder Lohan Spies. PEMKey, one of the programmes under the Reserve Bank’s Payments Ecosystem Modernisation (PEM) programme, is establishing what the central…
Image: Steve Buissinne Most imported newsprint now carries a 5% customs duty, after the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) backed Sappi’s bid to protect the newsprint machine at its Ngodwana mill in Mpumalanga from cheaper imports. The general rate of duty on newsprint in rolls or sheets went from 0% to 5% on 16 October,…
Value trumps loyalty and status: purchasing behaviour’s new fuel After the shock of the latest fuel price increases to close to R30 p/l for diesel and almost 27 p/l for petrol, commuters across the nation are feeling the sharp pinch of prices at the pumps. So high has the fuel price risen – from R20…
Toyota expects its Arene software platform to be running in 10 million new vehicles a year, across 50 models, by 2030, the company said on Friday. Subaru, in which Toyota holds a 21% stake, told a strategy briefing north of Tokyo that it will launch its own software-defined vehicles in the second half of the…
Alberton, Johannesburg-based music producer Justin Erasmus Samro, the Southern African Music Rights Organisation, now requires members to disclose how much AI went into a song when they register it with the body. But it sets no minimum level of human contribution, and disclosure “does not, in itself, constitute a determination of copyright eligibility or an…
Former University of Fort Hare vice-chancellor Professor Sakhela Buhlungu has argued that South Africa must confront the enduring legacy of migrant labour by rebuilding rural economies, rethinking land management and decentralising economic activity. Delivering the fourth annual Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture on 15 October, Professor Buhlungu warned that poverty, unemployment, food insecurity and the deterioration…
