Nedbank has added functionality to its smartphone banking application that allows blind people and those with visual impairments to use the software. The bank’s technology divisional executive, Glenn Smith, says the app offers the same experience it does to a person with good
Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry is replacing the MD of its Africa region with immediate effect. Yudi Moodley is taking over from Alexandra Zagury, who has been named as the new MD of company’s UK and Ireland operation. Moodley will be responsible
Vodacom has won protracted international arbitration proceedings in its long-running dispute with Congolese Wireless Network, the minority shareholder in its operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Relations between the two companies
Stellenbosch-based Mxit, the social mobile chat company now chaired by outgoing First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan, has released version 7 of it social network for feature phones, with iPhone and iPad versions coming later in the week. The launch of Mxit 7 is
Vodacom has come out guns blazing against proposals by its regulator, Icasa, that mobile call termination rates be slashed over the next three years while giving the company’s smaller rivals a leg up through “asymmetry”. Icasa wants the new rates – which operators charge each
While there is and likely will always be fundamental disputes amongst economists and policymakers about the best models and policies for economic growth, there is now wide consensus on one thing: increased Internet and broadband access causes increased rates of economic growth
The effective price per minute of a call on Vodacom’s network fell to 59c/minute in the six months ended 30 September 2013, a decline of 16,9% in the past year, the mobile operator said on Monday. Despite this, prepaid average revenue per user rose by 1,4% to
Communications minister Yunus Carrim demonstrated in parliament this week that government may finally be dealing decisively with the impasse over digital terrestrial television that is undermining efforts to get more South Africans connected to broadband. Carrim’s remarks to
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As consumers increasingly turn to WhatsApp, WeChat, BlackBerry Messenger and other free applications for instant messaging, South African operators may finally be gearing up to fight back over SMS volumes they have lost to IM players
