China’s Huawei, which lost ground in South Africa relative to some of its smartphone rivals over the Christmas sales season – pushing it into fourth place in terms of shipments – has vowed to
A new, South African-developed smartphone application tells you when to fill up your car and how much it’s going to cost you, with the idea that it will save consumers money. The app, called FillApp – and developed by a company
National police commissioner Riah Phiyega launched South Africa’s first e-police station in Kabokweni, Mpumalanga on Friday, during National Police Day celebrations. The computerised police station would be able to save dockets and other important
Power supply will remain extremely constrained over the weekend but no blackouts are expected, Eskom said on Friday. “The forecast for the weekend and the coming week indicates that the system will remain extremely constrained,” it said in a statement. “The electricity
In 2014, 1 215 rhinos were killed in South Africa for their horns, which end up in Asia as supposed cures for a variety of ailments. An estimated 30 000 African elephants were slaughtered last year for their tusks to be turned into trinkets. The world loses three rhinos a
Checking social networks is a morning ritual for many, and when that routine is disrupted — as it was this week when Facebook’s servers went down — its absence can come as a surprise. But what also becomes apparent is that when the world’s most popular social
Microsoft South Africa is confident that a changing approach by its parent company will mean the faster introduction of the company’s online services in South Africa. That’s the word from the MD of the South African
BlackBerry, once the must-have device for the sweaty palms of executives and wannabe executives everywhere, has seen its global share of the smartphone market fall to below 1%. So would you still buy this unpopular phone? If you live in parts of Africa, India or Indonesia
Times Media Group’s Vidi online video-on-demand platform is expanding its offering with a range of local television dramas, movies and children’s programming. Vidi has licensed a range
The department of communications has spent “disproportionately” more than R10m on advertising in The New Age newspaper in the last financial year, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. According