Personal financial management service 22seven has cut its monthly subscription fee by more than half, from R60/month to just R25, while adding the ability to track investments, loans, unit trusts and other financial information. Some might see the price cut as a sign of trouble, but the
Stellenbosch’s SnapScan, whose smartphone application won MTN Business’s 2013 App of the Year award this week, is betting that consumers will take to the idea of making in-store payments using their mobile phones instead of credit or debit cards. SnapScan falls under FireID
The bulk of identify fraud happens because of physical documents that have been stolen or otherwise compromised, but South African companies and government entities continue to focus most of their attention on protecting electronic rather than paper-based information
After an absence of several years, Ster-Kinekor is set to reintroduce IMAX threatres in South Africa, the cinema chain operator’s CEO Fiaz Mahomed revealed on Wednesday. The company has already begun construction of an IMAX theatre at the Gateway Theatre of Shopping north of Durban
Telkom has issued a challenge to South African organisations and individuals, including universities and start-ups, to help it develop “innovations” that help stimulate broadband penetration and social development. It wants research institutions, universities, nonprofit organisations
Satellite hardware and installations specialist, the JSE-listed Ellies Holdings, has launched a new subsidiary, Ellies Connect, to provide consumers with hardware and a triple-play offering of telephony, broadband and television in one package. Ellies has partnered with satellite broadband
Former minister Roy Padayachie burnt through more than R370 000 of taxpayers’ money on rental cars in a four-month period, public service & administration minister Lindiwe Sisulu said in parliament on Monday. Sisulu was responding to a question from Democratic Alliance MP Patricia
From 15 September, the ZA Central Registry will begin taking applications to reserve domain names for the new .africa top-level domain. African governments can reserve names that are of national significance before general domain name registrations are opened to the public
As technology has continued to evolve, from the dawn of mainframe computers in the 1930s and PCs in the 1960s, to the predominance of smart end-devices and the growth of machine-to-machine technology today, so has the complexity of the networks that enable these computing paradigms
In all of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) excitement, we’ve forgotten that it is first and foremost a scientific instrument, created to allow scientists to answer questions that can’t be answered with existing equipment: how are galaxies created? Are there other habitable planets? What is dark matter? What is
