Starting next month, doctors and nurses in remote areas of Rwanda will be able to order blood and emergency medicine via a text message. Part of a new breed, designed to save lives, the drone will fly to the clinic using GPS
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Vodacom South Africa has announced it is pulling the plug on its struggling mobile payments platform M-Pesa. Despite the enormous success of M-Pesa in markets such
Telkom is expected to take a big hit to earnings as the result of staff reduction costs, with headline earnings per share set to fall by between 40% and 50% for the year ended 31 March 2016. Basic earnings per share are expected to
Communications minister Faith Muthambi must embark on a proper legal process to regulate her decision, reached with the SABC, not to require indigent households to have a television licence when applying to receive a free digital TV set-top box
Telkom’s wholesale division, Openserve, has announced it will cut the price of IP Connect, the platform that provides Internet service providers with access to its copper-based broadband ADSL network. The price cut should lead to lower
Unemployment increased by 2,2 percentage points to 26,7% in the first quarter of 2016, compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. This is the highest rate since 2008. Employment levels declined in all industries, except community and
South Africa’s Naspers, and its subsidiary MultiChoice, may soon forfeit the generic top-level domains they applied for in 2012. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as Icann
After more than two “stress-filled and anxious” years, sacked Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois on Monday said she is satisfied with her last-minute settlement offer from Independent Newspapers
Before dropping out of the US presidential race, Republican hopeful John Kasich lamented the retirement of Jon Stewart as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, saying “Trump was lucky” to escape Stewart’s withering commentary. But Stewart’s replacement
Communications minister Faith Muthambi said in parliament on Friday that indigident households wanting a free, government-subsidised set-top box to receive digital terrestrial television