The theft of R42m from the SPost Office’s financial institution, Postbank, was condemned by parliament’s communications portfolio committee on Monday. Portfolio chairman Eric Kholwane said the bank’s security network needed to be tightened to prevent such a “hi-tech cyber heist”. He appreciated
Worldwide spending on retail banking technology will increase by US$3,6bn, or 3,2%% in 2012 and will reach $135bn in the next five years, according to Ovum. This is despite the economic problems plaguing the world economy. Ovum says banks in emerging economies in the Asia-Pacific region will grow
Google’s sub-Saharan Africa office has reacted with dismay to allegations of fraud by its Kenyan operations, vowing to get to the bottom of the matter. The Mail & Guardian reported on Friday that Kenya’s largest mobile business directory Mocality, which has more than 170 000 listings and helps to
Gesture- and voice-activated user interfaces emerged as significant trends at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. At the start of the show, the CEA, organisers of the event, claimed 2012 would be the “year of the interface”. According to the organisation, companies want to make
Chip-maker Intel, which has struggled historically in the mobile phone semiconductor market, last week unveiled a number of advancements across its smartphone business, including a deal with Motorola Mobility and a new handset by Lenovo based on the company’s new Intel Atom processor platform
Top TV may not broadcast pornography channels without the permission of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), the high court in Johannesburg ruled on Monday. The pay channel applied to Icasa in September for permission to flight three porn channels. When it received no response after two months
Money is just “pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don’t have to kill each other just to get something to eat”, declares Jeremy Irons as the reptilian CEO John Tuld in Margin Call, a drama about a group of investment bankers who have just realised
Google lost its status as the darling of the Internet earlier this week following an uproar over changes to its search results. Now the search engine and online advertising giant faces a fresh PR disaster after Kenyan mobile start-up Mocality, on Friday, accused
TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod and Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou bring you a special report from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. We talk about the biggest news coming out of this week’s CES event, including the latest in television
Airborne launched in late December 2011, and is an online music service that gives SA (and international) music audiences a chance to support their favourite artists directly, by “subscribing” to their playlist for a dollar a month, and by encouraging fans to