Vodacom has launched a new product designed to attract new customers and reward existing customers’ loyalty. Aimed at the prepaid market and clearly meant to drive up usage, Vodacom’s Use & Get
Telkom surprised the telecommunications industry last week, announcing sweeping price cuts to its wholesale broadband services that should lead to real reductions in retail fixed-line Internet prices. The cuts – which are said to go well beyond what
In last May’s mid-season finale of Mad Men, advertising agency patriarch Bert Cooper dies unexpectedly after watching the live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The next
Self-driving cars are expected to revolutionise the automobile industry. Rapid advances have led to working prototypes faster than most people expected. The anticipated benefits of this emerging technology include safer, faster and more eco-friendly
Tower operator Eaton Towers has raised US$350m (about R4,4bn) in new equity funding from existing and new shareholders to fund expansion and acquisitions across Africa, it said on Friday. At the same time, the company has signed
South African-born technology entrepreneur Elon Musk announced on Thursday night the development of a new battery system, the Tesla Powerwall, to store solar energy for later use, addressing a key
E-commerce website Kalahari was taken offline on Thursday night as Takealot said the merger between the two companies’ websites is now officially complete. The site’s expected closure
A total of 1 169 employees at Telkom have been affected by the telecommunications operator’s outsourcing measures, according to figures supplied by the company. In February, Telkom announced restructuring that involve it outsourcing
Batteries are so ubiquitous today that they’re almost invisible to us. Yet they are a remarkable invention with a long and storied history, and an equally exciting future. A battery is essentially
Information about Eskom’s power crisis is one of the hottest topics that South Africans searched for on Google during April. According to Google’s Trends tool, “load shedding” is one of the top searches performed locally as South Africans face the