The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), the government agency tasked with bridging South Africa’s digital divide, has provided details of those who will qualify for a subsidy when buying a set-top box for watching digital terrestrial television. The subsidies proposed range from
On Friday, Cape Town will launch a pilot programme that will allow residents and visitors to the city to pay for kerbside parking in the central business district with mobile payments app SnapScan. The service will be piloted in conjunction with Street Parking Solutions, the kerbside parking marshals
A new South African app, being launched on Friday, is hoping to be partygoers’ real-time digital catalogue for places to go and people to see this festive season and beyond. Trender is a location-based photo app that allows users to see where your friends are, where they’re going and the photos they’ve
In sport, we don’t just want to know who won. We now want to know how to replicate success and then improve on it. And to do this, we’re using data — and lots of it. The field of “big data” analytics has come to sport and athletics, with massive implications for sport as we know it. The Women’s Tennis Association
Tigo subscribers in Tanzania will get free access to basic Internet services, including Facebook and Wikipedia, through Facebook’s Internet.org app. They join Airtel subscribers in Zambia in getting this free access. Internet.org is a Facebook-led initiative to make affordable Internet access
Vodacom has allegedly been providing its subscribers’ numbers to third parties, The Times reported on Thursday. The cellular company reportedly confirmed on Wednesday that some of its 32,5m local and 27m international subscribers’ personal details were supplied to other businesses
Website administrators were scrambling on Thursday to patch their servers after a security hole in the Drupal content management system led to automated attacks, compromising website worldwide. Drupal is an open-source content management framework used by more than 2% of websites globally, ranging
A background screening process commissioned by the Democratic Alliance has provided more proof that SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala does not have a degree, the party said on Thursday. “The DA enlisted the services of Managed Integrity Evaluation to check Ms Tshabalala’s qualifications
In the wake of news this week that the first homes in Parkhurst in Johannesburg have been connected to start-up Vumatel’s speedy fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, Telkom has begun deploying home fibre infrastructure of its own in the leafy suburb. Ryan Hawthorne, technical adviser to the Parkhurst Residents
The Competition Commission has recommended the approval of MTN’s acquisition of a majority stake in Afrihost. It won’t impose any conditions on its support of the deal, it said on Wednesday. TechCentral reported in early June that the
