Durban-based Emerge Mobile, the ambitious mobile payments start-up, has launched its smartphone-based mobile payments system. Similar to US-based Square, the payment card acceptance solution allows users to accept card payments using their smartphones. iKhokha, a Cape Town based financial services

Google has announced 13 new languages for Gmail, two of which are South African languages Afrikaans and isiZulu. The additions push the number of supported languages on the Gmail platform to 71. “Gmail is already available in 58 languages, and today’s we’re bringing

South African technology distributor Mustek holds one of South Africa’s oldest PC brands in its stable. Mecer has been a fixture in local computing since 1987 and chances are good you’ve used or even owned a Mecer-branded PC. More recently, the company has started to venture into tablet computing

Telkom has rubbished claims by a trade union that a jobs bloodbath is looming at the telecommunications operator. The South African Communications Union claimed on Monday that the company intends slashing its workforce in half – firing 9 500 of Telkom’s 19 000 employees – within the

Which is more important to you, your right to freedom of speech or your right to privacy? Would you rather have the ability to control what is said about you or the ability to speak openly about contentious subjects? A fascinating collision between these rights is currently under way in the European Union

Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) has reached a deal with a syndicate of lenders that have agreed to provide R3,5bn in corporate debt facilities to the privately owned fibre telecommunications infrastructure provider. The funds will be used to replace the company’s project finance funding and invest in new

Africa’s first accelerator mass spectrometry facility was unveiled by science and technology minister Naledi Pandor in Johannesburg on Monday. The new facility, at iThemba Labs in Braamfontein, is being funded by Pandor’s department, the National Research Foundation and

E-tolling and its effects since implementation should be reviewed in parliament, Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane said on Monday. The DA would ask the transport portfolio committee to do the review over the coming days, Maimane told reporters in Johannesburg

Icasa has become a “political football”, according to the Democratic Alliance. Just weeks after it seemed certain that the communications regulator would report into the department of telecommunications and postal services, communications minister Faith Muthambi has told parliament that it

Controversial SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng appeared before parliament on Friday, a day after making controversial comments about a need to license journalists. One would expect him to be somewhat subdued considering the storm his comments stirred up, but Motsoeneng appeared