A medical application that allows healthcare professionals to share photos of patient cases and get input from their colleagues around the world has been launched in South Africa. Figure 1 is like Instagram for doctors and is already used by more than 150 000 healthcare professionals worldwide
Telkom has announced the launch plans and prices for its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband network. The company is launching 20Mbit/s, 40Mbit/s and 100Mbit/s services in selected areas in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. Homes in Groenkloof, Houghton, Eldoraigne, Parktown and Westcliff
What do you think of when you hear the word “nerd”? What was once an insult has become almost affectionate. With their extreme intelligence and social awkwardness, nerds are usually seen as endearing and harmless. This makes what is happening in the gaming industry all the more shocking
Stafford Masie, the South African technology entrepreneur behind the Payment Pebble, introduced earlier this year by Absa, will on Monday takes the wraps off a radical new design of the mobile point-of-sale (M-POS) system. Instead of merchants
What a difference a year makes. In late 2013, Korea’s Samsung was still riding high on the success of its Galaxy S4 and Note 3 smartphones, while some analysts were questioning whether rival Apple had simply stopped innovating after the
Samsung’s third-quarter results were just as bad as the company warned as tougher competition caused profits to tumble by 74% in its mobile business. Overall, the Korean electronics giant on Wednesday reported a 60% drop in company-wide operating profit — its fourth consecutive decline and
Turns out there’s good money to be made cutting through the complex packages and tariff plans of South Africa’s mobile operators. Start-up Phonefinder, which TechCentral profiled when it launched a year ago, now has as many as 5 000 different plans available on its website, and thousands of people
The right to privacy has been making big news globally. In the wake of US whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations, more people have been clamouring for stronger privacy protections. So why has there been so little debate about the state of this right in South Africa? Is it because there is nothing to
Online money transfer service PayPal has launched a partnership with USaddress.com to make it easier for sub-Saharan countries to buy from American e-commerce stores. USaddress allows international customers to shop at any US online retailers and have the goods delivered to them, even
The ministry of communications, led by Faith Muthambi, will have responsibility for running South Africa’s digital terrestrial television migration project, a well-placed source has told TechCentral. A presidential proclamation further clarifying the respective roles of the departments of communications
