Banking group Absa has launched a product allowing its customers to apply for personal loans through their cellphones and receive the money in less than 10 minutes. The offering makes loans, ranging from R8 000 to R150 000, immediately available
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Telecommunications operator Vodacom has opened a multimillion-rand data centre in Cape Town to provide cloud computing and other services to its business customers. The 1 552sq m facility, which can be expanded to
Telkom’s failed Multi-Links transaction in Nigeria has cost the company more than R7bn, communications minister Roy Padayachie said on Monday. He was responding to a written parliamentary question by the Democratic Alliance
Vox Telecom has supplied video conferencing solutions for a number of years, but is now creating a dedicated division, called Vox Pureview, for the purpose. It intends offering video conferencing solutions, including support for mobile devices, including
Seacom, the operator of the undersea cable system of the same name, has invested R100m in additional infrastructure in SA to meet what it calls the “continuous high growth in demand for broadband services and applications”. The investment includes the
Are you sick of unsolicited calls and SMSes from people trying to sell you something? Help is on the way thanks to the National Consumer Commission’s (NCC’s) proposed opt-out registry that allows consumers to sign up to prevent direct
Computer Sciences Corp (CSC), one of the world’s largest IT outsourcing companies with annual revenues of US$16bn, plans to quadruple its staff complement in SA in the next 18 months and generate between 10% and 15% of its
MultiChoice has launched DStv BoxOffice, its satellite-based movie rental service. The company will offer subscribers with personal video recorders the latest movies for rental for 48 hours for R25/movie. The service will be available to DStv Premium
Cell C is introducing new 10GB and 20GB broadband packages at rates as low as 3c/MB as SA’s broadband price war gathers in intensity. From 1 August, the company will introduce a 10GB/month package, including a
Worldwide mobile payment users will surpass 141,1m in 2011, a 38,2% increase from 2010, according to Gartner. Worldwide mobile payment volumes are forecast to total US$86,1bn, up 75,9%. But in spite of these strong growth projections, Gartner