The Democratic Alliance has called on communications minister Faith Muthambi to ensure there is transparency in the awarding of tenders to manufacture set-top boxes for South Africa’s digital terrestrial television migration project. In a statement on Sunday, DA MP
Absa will be the first bank in South Africa to implement Visa’s new specification for the use of biometrics with chip card transactions and will develop a proof of concept trial to be launched this summer. The specification can enable palm, voice, iris or facial biometrics, Visa said in a
In a resounding black economic empowerment success story, the value of the 20% investment in MultiChoice South Africa by BEE shareholders has increased by 20 times. The shares are currently trading around R170 each and, including total dividends paid to date of just
MultiChoice has announced a new upgrade for its high-end DStv Explora personal video recorder (PVR) satellite decoder. A new software update, which will be delivered automatically from 15 September to all active Explora PVR decoders, promises improvements to
After more than a month of no load shedding, Eskom on Monday evening announced that it would implement stage 1 load shedding between 7pm and 10pm “due to loss of generating units”. News of the blackouts comes after the power utility warned on
Cell C and Vodacom are both pumping hundreds of millions of rand into their networks in the Western Cape to enhance coverage to the province’s residents. Cell C said on Wednesday that it intends
Hong Kong-based telecommunications company PCCW is planning to launch a video-on-demand service, possibly as early as next week, that will challenge the recently launched ShowMax
Global Internet payments platform PayPal will now allow South African consumers to return goods purchased using the service, for free. The launch of the PayPal Refunded Return service follows the
All Western Cape schools will have free, high-speed access to the Internet by the end of 2016, the province’s premier, Helen Zille, said on Tuesday. Zille said the plan is to use the access to offer e-learning to pupils to improve both literacy and numeracy and
Standard Bank has launched a new service that will allow its high-value clients to interact with a team of bankers 24 hours a day using instant messaging. The platform has been
