South Africa will get its first multi-genre electronic “mashed-up” festival this year. The event will include music, art and technology, hosted by Hilltop Live. The festival, called XooXity, has been inspired by South African
Author: Nafisa Akabor
Self-tracking, body hacking, life-logging, wearables, the quantified self — you may have heard these terms being thrown around a lot in the past year thanks to companies such as Fitbit, Nike+ and Jawbone. It was these three companies that were largely
South Africans could soon find themselves having to wrestle with a new type of electrical plug following the adoption of an apparently much safer standard for plugs and sockets. SANS 164-2 was introduced as the “preferred standard” for electrical plugs and sockets by the South
Cloud-based mobile specialist biNu, which develops a product aimed at feature phone users in emerging markets, has established a presence in Africa for the first time, opening an office in Cape Town. The company’s application, also called biNu, is aimed at Android- and Java-based
A Durban-based company, Maslow Holdings, has developed a gizmo that promises to turn any HDMI-enabled television set into a smart TV. The R1 195 Piko “smart stick” is the size of a USB flash drive and connects to a TV through HDMI. The Piko smart stick, which is manufactured
HTC, Sony, Samsung, LG, Apple, Nokia, Huawei. The world’s big smartphone makers are all expected to unveil new flagship devices in 2014, many of them in the next few months. But what can consumers look forward to?
The Mecer C22G Tablet PC from South African technology distributor Mustek is aimed at business users. It’s meant to appeal to those requiring tablet functionality in a full-blown PC. But, at more than 1kg without its bundled keyboard/touchpad, it’s a heavy device compared to
A Johannesburg-based start-up, SA Cardiosynthetics, has set itself the goal of providing heart-valve replacements to emerging markets that do not require the long-term administration of medication normally needed after this type of procedure. Co-founder Murray Legg explains that
Communications minister Yunus Carrim has been given a mixed report card by the Democratic Alliance in its analysis of the performance of cabinet ministers over the past year. Carrim has been given a “C” by the opposition political party for “attempting, with
Altech, a subsidiary of Altron, plans to sell its Liquid Telecom stake, acquired in January 2013, to Econet Wireless, Liquid’s parent company. The 8,6% stake will be sold to Econet for US$55m, giving Liquid an implied value of $640m. Altech says it is exercising this option because the stake