Mobile operator Smile Telecoms has launched a long-term evolution (LTE) network in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, beating SA to the punch to roll out the next-generation mobile technology on a commercial basis. LTE, sometimes referred to as 4G, offers
Author: Craig Wilson
At 7ft tall, Mayan Mathen is easy to spot in a crowd. It also means strangers find him a bit of a novelty and he says he’s often asked to be in pictures with tourists, rather than take pictures of them, when he’s travelling. Mathen does a great deal of travel in his role as chief technology officer
The Ultrabook wave is growing rapidly, with every major manufacturer now offering an ultra-portable range of thin and lightweight laptops with potent processors and the speed benefits offered by solid-state drives. Dell’s latest foray into the Ultrabook market is in its XPS range. With it, the US computer manufacturer
JSE-listed Africa Cellular Towers (ACT) has been placed into provisional liquidation after a major unnamed creditor was granted an order for the liquidation on Friday, 1 June. In a statement issued through the JSE’s Sens news service, ACT told shareholders on Monday that the company had been placed into
PicPlz, a competitor to photo-sharing service Instagram, has told users it will be shutting down its service at the beginning of next month and deleting all images off its servers. Users can download their images before 3 July. In a post on its website, PicPlz says a decision has been taken “to move on
Finish mobile device manufacturer Nokia has lost out to Apple in the fight to decide on a new standard for Sim cards. Other competitors included BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion and Google’s recent acquisition, Motorola Mobility. The hope is that smaller Sim cards will allow for better use of
With Telkom doing away with its 384kbit/s fixed-line broadband plan in favour of a 1Mbit/s product, consumers look set to get better speeds without having to fork out more cash to Internet service providers (ISPs) for corresponding data packages, according to industry players. Vox Telecom co-CEO
There’s a new personal financial management website in town and it’s upping the stakes in an increasingly competitive market by offering its service completely free of charge. Pastel My Money is free to all users, even if they’re not current Pastel customers. PFM tools have enjoyed prominence in SA in the
Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone device, the Lumia 900, as well as its lower-end Lumia 610 should be available in SA by the end of this month. The Lumia 900 is Nokia’s top Windows Phone-powered device and the 610 is positioned as the most affordable device
Microsoft has released the last preview version of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system earlier a week earlier than expected. The most obvious change between the consumer preview and the version released this week is the vast improvements that have been made to the built-in Metro applications that will eventually