amsung rules the South African smartphone and tablet market, new research has found. According to research firm the International Data Corp (IDC), the Korean brand has consolidated its position at the top of the local market in the second quarter of 2015
There are few things which upset me more than the state of the South African education system. It is a system which consigns millions of people to mass incarceration every year and, much like
The fallout of the Ashley Madison breach continues. Extortion, even suicides, are being linked to the data dump, which revealed a lot of personal information about the site’s users. It’s an interesting case
South Africa was ranked second in an index for its excellent access to and usage of affordable financial services, a report released on Tuesday shows. The 2015 Brookings Financial and Digital
HeroTel has been working to build out its wide-scale Wi-Fi access business, which is set for launch in early 2016. “Through Snowball and Cloud Connect we already have coverage in the greater Cape Town
Anyone who flies into Johannesburg in the early mornings during winter will be familiar with the atmospheric inversion layer, where air near the ground is cooled by the unheated swimming pools of the struggling middle classes. The cool air traps pollutants beneath warmer layers
The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, one of the most trafficked tourist attractions in the world, is now also host to a technology hub that its backers hope will help incubate and grow the next crop of
Vodacom has developed what it’s calling a “new way to watch video via mobile” with an app called Video Play, which utilises spare network capacity to download and cache selected content at a reduced cost to consumers. “Users preselect their content
Mobile telecommunications operator MTN and pan-African fibre-optic infrastructure provider Liquid Telecom have signed a partnership deal in terms of which they will jointly offer customers access to their wireless and fixed services across the continent
Instant messaging service Mxit is the best Web application ever to be created in Africa, according to Alan Knott-Craig. Knott-Craig previously headed up wireless provider iBurst and mobile social network Mxit. But Knott-Craig – who is the son of
