Radio and television broadcasters, satellite providers and even radar operators will have to make way for mobile broadband companies if radio frequency spectrum proposals to be put to the International
Fuel retailer Engen and logistics company UTi Distribution have announced plans to roll out e-commerce lockers at Engen forecourts, starting in Sandton in Johannesburg. The news comes just months after Makro announced that it was working
A new smartphone application, developed by Cape Town-based “consumer engagement agency” iKineo, has been launched to showcase the Winelands of the Western Cape to tourists. Available only for the iPhone for now, the app, called Sideways, allows
There is an app for everything these days and, given that power cuts have become part of everyday life for South Africans, a quick search on your favourite app store will return a growing number of load-shedding applications to help you through these dark days
Every year, Apple’s iMac line-up gets slightly faster processors, better graphics cards, faster RAM and more storage space. And although the 2013 iMac was one of the first Apple computers to incorporate the new Broadwell micro-architecture, it still wasn’t a
The African News Agency, which plans to syndicate stories across the continent, will open its doors in March, founding CEO Chris Borain said on Tuesday. “With Sapa terminating its services on 31 March, we intend to
Government on Tuesday dismissed a hoax statement saying it had been warned by Eskom the main power grid could crash, plunging the country into darkness for over two weeks, the department of communications said. “The message regarding Eskom is not
The first commercially available smartphone running Ubuntu, the open-source operating system developed by Canonical – the company founded by South African technology billionaire Mark Shuttleworth – is about to go on sale. Sadly, the phone won’t immediately
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Stage one power cuts will be implemented on Monday afternoon, electricity provider Eskom said. The company posted on its Twitter feed at 2.30pm: “Stage 1 load shedding to be implemented from 4pm to 10pm due to shortage of capacity