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Need proof that Bitcoin, the virtual currency, is growing up? South Africa is getting its very own Bitcoin-focused conference, to be hosted in Cape Town in April. The inaugural Bitcoin Africa Conference will take place at the Atlantic Imbizo Conference and Function
The spectre of rolling blackouts returned on Tuesday morning after Eskom warned that there was a high probability of load shedding. “The electricity supply system is under servere pressure,” Eskom said on Twitter. “We urge everyone to switch off their geysers and air conditioning
Imagine a cellphone that weighs almost 5kg, is the size of a briefcase and costs R75 000 in today’s money? Believe it or not, that’s what early adopters had to put up with in the early days on mobile in the 1980s. To commemorate the first-ever mobile phone call 30 years ago
After extensive piloting, MTN South Africa has launched FrontRow Services, a video-on-demand platform that provides customers with access to movies and television shows for R179/month. MTN FrontRow Services is made up of FrontRow Club and
The best thing about Zandile Tshabalala’s resignation as SABC chair this week, staffers say, is that they will go into festive season parties less likely to be the butt of all jokes. “It’s a bit funny the first time you stand around the braai and people demand to see your matric certificate,” a
Senzo Meyiwa, Oscar Pistorius and Ebola topped the list of top trending searches on Google in South Africa in 2014,…
PC sales in Africa and the Middle East will decline by 2% in 2014, with sales remaining flat to slightly negative for the next five years, according to new research by International Data Corp. This is despite a positive third quarter in 2014, when the market expanded by 2,1% in volume terms year on year to
Parktown North has become the latest suburb where residents are working together to have an ultra-high-speed fibre-to-the-home network installed in their community. The Parktown North Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association will work with Vumatel, the same company that is deploying
Telkom has deployed 4G/LTE-Advanced technology to five more South African suburbs, it said on Friday. This follows the launch of South Africa’s first commercial LTE-A service in November in the Johannesburg suburb of Parkhurst. The new suburbs to get the coverage, which offers wireless broadband