Residents of another upmarket Johannesburg suburb have kick-started the process of building a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in their neighbourhood. Parkview has signalled plans to follow the example of nearby Parkhurst, which has taken an early lead in building FTTH. “We have fast fibre-optic
Author: Regardt van der Berg
First National Bank will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the Web browser introduced with Windows 7, from September. The bank told customers on Thursday it cannot be restricted by the limitations IE8 imposes on its online banking system. “It is our policy to support the three latest Internet Explorer
Activity trackers are proving popular among fitness enthusiasts and technology-savvy early adopters. These wearable technologies allow users to track their activity routines. The Jawbone UP24 enters a market with stiff competition with devices from companies such as Fitbit, Sony and Samsung
Visa doesn’t just think a cashless society is possible, it thinks it could even happen soon — and in Africa. Visa country manager for South Africa Mandy Lamb says the payments technology company’s strategy is to displace the “trillions of dollars worth of cash” still in use across Africa. It’s not Visa’s intention to
A new local application, Appetite, wants to give hungry South Africans easy access to their favourite takeaway joints, right from their smartphones. The app, which has been been in development for the past 18 months
Pretoria-based Desert Wolf made international headlines last month after it emerged that it had developed a drone capable of showering pepper spray on rioting crowds and claiming the technology could be used in “preventing another Marikana”, in reference to the violent protest in August 2012 where 34
The South African mobile payments space is hotting up with another contender entering the fray. FlickPay is the fifth mobile payments application to be launched in South Africa in recent months and, although it’s not
Cape Town is mulling over public comments to its draft proposal to provide open access to the city’s data. The city is developing plans to establish and populate a single online and open portal for data
The designers of the Ascend P7, the latest flagship smartphone from the China’s Huawei, have clearly drawn inspiration from Apple. The latest iteration in the Ascend range, the P7 is a 5-inch smartphone that checks all the right boxes in terms of aesthetics. It’s just 6,5mm thick and weighs only 124g
Standard Bank has launched MasterCard’s MasterPass, a digital wallet that allows consumers to pay for goods and services using a digital wallet. South Africa is the first country in the Middle East and Africa and the 10th worldwide to get the service. “It’s not only going beyond cash but beyond plastic that