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The board of Business Connexion (BCX) has named Vanessa Olver as acting CEO following the death on Wednesday of Benjamin Mophatlane. Mophatlane, who was just 41, died of a heart attack while in a meeting in Rosebank in Johannesburg. Olver, a chartered accountant, joined BCX in August 2009
Internet service provider Afrihost, which is currently the subject of an acquisition by mobile operator MTN, has announced it intends selling its own smartphone and offering early adopters 12GB of “free” data when they buy one. The phone, the Zest T1, which costs R1 999 once-off, will come with
Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has launched a mobile application to provide travellers with up-to-date flight and terminal information, as well as information unique to each airport such as detailed airport maps with shop and restaurant details. Acsa group manager for customer care Claudia Ramsden says
Minibus taxi commuters will get 50MB/month of free Wi-Fi data as part of a plan to roll-out broadband Internet access to commuter taxis countrywide. Santaco, the South African National Taxi Council, has taken the wraps off the service, called WiTaxi, at a launch event in
Smartphone-based private chauffeur service Uber has launched a low-cost version of its taxi service in Cape Town. Called UberX, the cheaper option will run alongside the company’s high-end UberBlack service, which has been available in South Africa since October. Uber’s cab service allows users to book and pay
Installing Wi-Fi access points in taxis and taxi ranks would change people’s perception of the taxi industry, Gauteng transport MEC Ismail Vadi said on Thursday. “Man, I tell you, I would not have thought of an idea of getting Internet into a taxi. It is a novel move,” he said at the launch of the South African National Taxi
MultiChoice has commissioned capacity on a new satellite from Intelsat, less than two years after the company began using Intelsat 20, a high-capacity satellite launched in 2012. Intelsat said on Wednesday that it has signed a 15-year service agreement with MultiChoice for Intelsat 36, a new
Shack fires are a big problem in Africa and devastate the lives of thousands of people each year. The cause of these fires are almost always attributed to the use of paraffin lamps and candles. Now, a South African inventor is hoping to put a stop to this, replacing these hazards
A team of audiologists at the University of Pretoria has developed a mobile health application, hearScreen, which makes hearing screening easy and affordable. The software application is part of a pilot study in which mobile health technology will be used to do school and
South Africa has plenty of sunshine, and two Port Elizabeth-based entrepreneurs want to use this to charge the Millbug Vuya Tablet, a device they conceptualised locally. Vuya means “be happy” in isiXhosa. Millbug was founded in 2012 by Sabelo Sibanda, 30, and Thulisile Volwana, 22. It started as an e-commerce company
