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First National Bank has overhauled its smartphone banking app, introducing a new look and feel to the software and adding several new features. The new-look FNB Banking App is already available for download on all major platforms, including Apple, Android and Windows Mobile. An updated

In this week’s episode of the ZA Tech Show podcast, Brett Haggard is joined by Steven Ambrose and Liron Segev for a chat about the new Amazon smartphone, Microsoft’s television white-spaces project, Facebook’s downtime, YouTube’s subscription fees for music videos, BlackBerry 10

Training company Ketler Presentations has agreed to cough up R65 000 in full and final settlement costs incurred by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) following a failed action brought against the industry body at the high court in 2012. In June last year, the high court in Johannesburg

A cyber criminal syndicate has used key-logging software to steal millions of rand from the Road Traffic Management Corporation’s (RTMC’s) bank account, Times Live reported on Thursday. The syndicate, reportedly made up of a husband and wife pair and at least three other people, allegedly splurged

Business Connexion (BCX) will hold a memorial service for its late CEO, Benjamin Mophatlane, in Pretoria on Thursday and the company has invited anyone who would like to pay their last respects to attend the service. Mophatlane passed away last week, 11 June, in Johannesburg after suffering a heart

It’s a good news week in the future and Brett Haggard, Adam Oxford and Benedict Kelly get together to discuss, among 0ther things, free Wi-Fi in taxis, South African students getting tablets, a cheap 3D printer, Uber and the UK taxi debacle, Net1’s single-use credit cards, SwiftKey going free, the new

Telkom has unveiled plans to deploy high-speed 4G/LTE wireless broadband to homes across the country. The news comes after the company revealed plans to deploy fibre-to-the-home connectivity to about 20 suburbs before the end of the year. “Our commitment to deliver this roll-out

Microsoft will launch its next-generation entertainment console, the Xbox One, in South Africa on 23 September. The price of the new console, which competes head-on with Sony’s PlayStation 4 – which is already on sale in South Africa – will start at R6 299,99, Microsoft said in a statement. A version with Kinect

Spare a thought for Google. In the wake of a ruling by the European court of justice, the Internet search giant has to set up extensive new machinery to deal with requests to take down embarrassing material. It all began when a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, tried to force the website of the newspaper

Researchers at Ford and Heinz are collaborating to develop a bioplastic using … tomatoes. They’re investigating the use of tomato fibres in developing sustainable, composite materials for use in vehicle manufacturing. Specifically, dried tomato skins could become the wiring brackets