Within hours of the pre-order launch, not only had the cheapest Apple Watch Sport at US$349 sold out, but so had the Apple Watch Edition with a rose gold case and retailing at $17 000. And all of this for a watch that reviewers have given decidedly mixed reviews
Telkom has announced plans to hike consumer line rental charges by a whopping 13,9%. The monthly fee will rise from R166 to R189 on 1 May, the company said on Friday. The increase
Eskom has taken the first steps towards cutting electricity supply to the top 20 defaulting municipalities that collectively owe it R3,7bn for bulk electricity supply. The utility has announced its plans to cut supply to these municipalities from 6am to 10am and again at 5pm to 9pm
The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa) has apparently finalised the winning bidders for the set-top box tender process, but confusion reigns over how the process will work from
Vodacom has become the first mobile operator in South Africa to launch voice-over-LTE, or VoLTE, calling on its network. In development for years, VoLTE allows voice calls to be placed over 4G/LTE networks, which are built first and foremost for data communication rather
Roads agency Sanral’s inability to enforce the e-toll policy in Gauteng and growing public anger and civil disobedience have resulted in monthly e-toll revenue collection of about R60m by the end of February 2015, with not even 23% of users paying for the use of the
Regulators are taking extraordinarily long to weigh up a number of big deals, including Vodacom’s proposed acquisition of Neotel, while the industry waits on tenterhooks for news that could change the sector. A number of significant deals that could
SnapScan, the mobile payments application developed by Cape Town-based start-up FireID Payments in collaboration with Standard Bank, has introduced Bluetooth-based payments in its app, obviating the need for users to scan a QR code at the point of sale. At
Cell C’s Middle Eastern shareholders have clearly not tired of investing in the business. The operator has announced it plans to spend R8bn over the next three years building a 4G/LTE mobile broadband network in “targeted areas” across South Africa. The company
Standard Bank has introduced a biometric mobile banking solution that allows iPhone and iPad users to use their device’s fingerprint scanner to sign into the financial services company’s mobile banking application. The update makes use of the TouchID
