Author: Staff Reporter

MultiChoice-owned Showmax is adding Bafana Bafana Afcon football matches to its live-streaming sports offering, stepping up the pressure on rival Netflix in the South African market.

Cape Town-focused fibre-to-the-home infrastructure operator Octotel said it is now the third-largest fibre provider in the country, behind Openserve and Vumatel, after reaching 100 000 homes passed.

First National Bank’s online banking website suffered unscheduled downtime on Tuesday, with frustrated customers taking to social media to complain about the outage.

Apple is strongly rumoured to be putting its standard iPhone model on a diet next year, releasing a 5G version with a 5.45-inch screen, down from 5.8 inches in the current Xs model.

MultiChoice Group-owned video streaming platform Showmax will offer live sports to all customers in South Africa, effective immediately, it said on Friday.

Old Mutual warned on Monday that it will no longer insure computer equipment used for mining cryptocurrencies.

Microsoft’s long-neglected Flight Simulator franchise is set to make an impressive return in 2020, the software giant revealed ahead of the E3 videogame conference in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The GSMA, a lobby group for the world’s mobile operators, has warned South Africa against implementing a poorly designed spectrum auction, saying such an auction could fail if not done properly.

Uber will ban riders in South Africa with “persistently bad feedback”, the ride-hailing giant said on Monday.

FNB has announced sweeping changes to its eBucks loyalty programme, including giving clients the ability to earn double their fuel rewards on a quarterly basis with up to R8/l back at Engen petrol stations.