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From 1 September this year, all motor vehicles registered for the first time will need to be fitted with microdots that comply with the requirements of the National Road Traffic Act. Microdots are tiny metallic discs that have a unique code inscribed in them and can be read using a microscope. Furthermore, all motor vehicles
MTN SA has told the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) that a second digital migration may be necessary once the move from analogue to digital television broadcasting has been completed because of the fragmentation of the spectrum that will be freed up when analogue signals are turned off
SA price comparison site PriceCheck has launched a barcode scanning application that allows consumers to compare product prices between PriceCheck’s vendors using mobile devices. The application is available in the Android and Samsung app stores. The front-end of the application was developed by software solutions company DVT
You may not have heard of Barry Diller or IAC, the sprawling conglomerate he founded, but you’ve definitely heard of the brands he owns. From Vimeo to Expedia to The Daily Beast to Match.com, IAC has fingers in all of the Web’s biggest markets. So when Diller
Altech Autopage Cellular, SA’s biggest independent cellular service provider, has backed away from plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) after giving serious thought last year to the idea of launching one. Altech CEO Craig Venter said as recently as September 2011 that Autopage Cellular was considering
MTN has condemned what it describes as an attempt by Turkcell to “use the threat of a US legal claim to extort money” from the JSE-listed mobile group. This follows a series of damaging allegations and a threat of legal action by the Turkish operator over claims it was awarded an operating licence in Iran corruptly
Gert Schoonbee has been named as the new MD of IT outsourcing specialist T-Systems in SA, replacing Mardia van der Walt-Korsten, who is moving on to a role as regional head of the company’s newly created Africa region. Schoonbee, who will take on the new role on 1 April, is the company’s vice-president of sales
Altech Autopage Cellular has acquired sister company Altech Technology Concepts for an undisclosed sum as part of a plan to offer converged communication products and services to retail consumers and small and medium enterprises. The merged business will be renamed
With his leather jacket and shaggy hair, David Eagleman looks more like a musician than a neuroscientist. The New York Times best-selling author and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of Medicine gave a fascinating overview of his studies into synesthesia and the place of the
There’s an enormous amount of speculation swirling around Google+, the search giant’s six-month-old social network. In a frank “fireside chat” at this year’s South By South West (SXSW) festival tech guru Guy Kawasaki prodded Vic Gundotra, head of Google+, into revealing some surprising insights. Kawasaki opened
