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Standard Bank has become the latest SA bank to launch a mobile transactional banking app. The app appeared on Apple’s App Store for iOS devices on Tuesday. Moneyweb, a financial news website, reported on Wednesday that the app was in both the Apple and Google
A David and Goliath-style statistics battle has broken out online, calling into question everything we thought we knew about streaming radio in SA. A technical specialist with a part-time blog has blown the lid off what appears to be the gross inflation of listenership
Altron Group has appointed Neil Kayton as the new CEO of its Powertech subsidiary following the resignation of Norbet Claussen from the position this month. Kayton was Powertech’s chief financial officer. The appointment is effective from 1 July. Kayton, a chartered accountant, joined
The constitutional court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal lodged by the Competition Commission and Tracetec against vehicle tracking companies Altech Netstar, Matrix Vehicle Tracking and Tracker. The applicants have been ordered to pay costs. In 2005, Tracetec lodged a complaint
The Web, with all its hazards, is the new playground for children, a Google SA official said on Wednesday. “Like in any playground, you don’t abandon your children, but supervise and check how they are playing there,” the search engine’s public manager, Fortune Sibanda, told a conference on child abuse in
Mobile operator Cell C is in talks with Vodacom about renegotiating the 15-year roaming agreement the two companies signed in 2001. Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig says the discussions with Vodacom “are going in the right direction”, but he says he
Cable theft has once again disrupted Telkom services, this time in the Kyalami area north of Johannesburg. The company says services to thousands of mainly business customers have been disrupted as a result of thieves. The fixed-line operator says it is working to restore services to clients in the area
Third mobile operator Cell C plans to build a new, 50 000sq m campus north of Sandton to integrate its disparate offices, which are located across Johannesburg, from Parktown to Sandton. The new facility, which will house Cell C’s head
Nedbank launched its mobile banking application, called the Nedbank App Suite, to its staff on Monday. The bank says it will be available to the public from the beginning of August. The app has taken two years to develop and is only the third in the
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) is pressing communications minister Dina Pule to finalise her policy directions on high-demand radio frequency spectrum, including the “digital dividend” band that will be freed up when SA’s broadcasters move from analogue to digital terrestrial television
