South African development house Rorotika Technologies is the brains behind many technologies consumers use every day in telecommunications and banking. Its latest venture is in gaming on feature phones, a major growth industry
Author: Regardt van der Berg
The University of the Western Cape has introduced a new model for Village Telco’s Mesh Potato telecommunications device that promises to make the technology sustainable in the long term in rural communities. Village Telco was incorporated by Steve Song in 2011 during a three-year stint
With the high number of accidents affecting cyclists in South Africa, a new invention by a Stellenbosch-based technology company called iKubu, which alerts bike riders of what’s happening around them, is likely to be a welcome
Internet Solutions has revealed plans to roll out fibre to 50 business parks in Gauteng, with Cape Town and Durban to follow by the middle of next year. The company has also taken the wraps off its pricing. “Historically, one of the issues with fibre installations
Standard Bank has said that after the technical glitches that affected its customers on Monday, most of its platforms are available to customers although the bank’s app is still not fully operational. On Monday, the bank apologised to its clients for the glitches, which lasted several hours. Clients said they could
The Internet is a vast series of tubes, computers and devices, networked together sharing the same information. But where do all those pieces of hardware reside? Shodan founder John Matherly found out when he pinged all the
Big data will change the way South Africans receive health care and how medical schemes administer it and Metropolitan Health, one of the country’s largest medical scheme administrators, wants to be at the forefront of the change, says CEO Dylan Garnett
Think BitTorrent and most people think piracy – an easy way to get music, movies and software on the Internet using the peer-to-peer protocol, which was founded in 2004 by San Francisco’s BitTorrent Inc. But BitTorrent is a hugely useful
State-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech, in partnership with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), will begin a digital radio trial in October using the digital audio broadcasting plus (DAB+) standard. A separate but related trial is under way using a technology called
Lightstone, the developers behind the winner at this year’s MTN Business App of the Year awards, have set their sights on the property market next. Live Inspect, which is tailored for insurance companies doing pre-inspection vehicle checks at a user’s