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He has broken 39 different world records, including sitting in a jacuzzi for nearly 13 days, pumping petrol for a thousand hours and disco dancing non-stop for 345 hours, a record he has personally broken six times. Andre van Zijl, 63, has now set his sights on talking his way
Cell C has chopped international call rates on a promotional basis until the end of January 2014, reducing rates to 12 popular international destinations to 65c/minute on per-second billing. The countries to which the promotional rate applies are
The fight against e-tolling in Gauteng is not over, the DA said on Thursday. “Without fail, we chose the most cumbersome, the most expensive system that only benefits a few, rather than considering the majority of this province,” said Democratic Alliance spokesman Mmusi Maimane
One of 2013’s most anticipated handsets, Nokia’s Lumia 1020, has been launched in South Africa. At a recommended retail price of R9 999, the Windows Phone-powered 1020 is available at its launch through MTN and Vodacom in black, white and yellow. The Lumia 1020’s 41-megapixel
In an effort clearly designed at getting South Africans to try its wireless broadband network, Telkom Mobile is offering what it’s calling “first-time Internet users” the opportunity to get online for a year for a R49 once-off fee. For that price, South Africa’s
South Africans now have access to hundreds of thousands of books on Google’s Play store including bestsellers and classics from hundreds of publishers. Santiago de la Mora, regional director of print product partnerships at Google, says that with the launch of e-books, Google Play will
HTC’s newly appointed distributor, Ingram Micro Mobility, has admitted that the smartphone brand has to go “back to basics” in South Africa after HTC failed to live up to promises to expand its presence here in 2013. Last month, TechCentral revealed that HTC
A Johannesburg-based software developer, Christopher Bischoff, has become the first South African to list a videogame on Kickstarter. The classic point-and-click adventure game, Stasis, went live on the crowd-funding website two days ago and, at the time of writing, had already received
Web- and smartphone-based restaurant listing and review service Zomato has raised US$37m (about R370m) in fresh investment from Sequoia Capital and existing investor Info Edge as it eyes expansion in South Africa and other emerging markets
Claims that infected systems caused by the Dexter malware attack are “clean” and that consumers have “nothing to worry about” are unfounded, a security industry expert has said. SecureData Africa chief technology officer Wayne Olsen says consumers should still be concerned as it is a
