Banking group Absa has launched a product allowing its customers to apply for personal loans through their cellphones and receive the money in less than 10 minutes. The offering makes loans, ranging from R8 000 to R150 000, immediately available

Wora is an acronym coined by Sun Microsystems more than a decade ago to describe the benefits of a new programming language it created called Java. At the time, every compiled programming language needed to be recompiled on every platform

Telecommunications operator Vodacom has opened a multimillion-rand data centre in Cape Town to provide cloud computing and other services to its business customers. The 1 552sq m facility, which can be expanded to

Telkom’s failed Multi-Links transaction in Nigeria has cost the company more than R7bn, communications minister Roy Padayachie said on Monday. He was responding to a written parliamentary question by the Democratic Alliance

Vox Telecom has supplied video conferencing solutions for a number of years, but is now creating a dedicated division, called Vox Pureview, for the purpose. It intends offering video conferencing solutions, including support for mobile devices, including

Seacom, the operator of the undersea cable system of the same name, has invested R100m in additional infrastructure in SA to meet what it calls the “continuous high growth in demand for broadband services and applications”. The investment includes the

Are you sick of unsolicited calls and SMSes from people trying to sell you something? Help is on the way thanks to the National Consumer Commission’s (NCC’s) proposed opt-out registry that allows consumers to sign up to prevent direct

The Bang Bang Club is a film of halves: one of them a harrowing recreation of a turbulent period in SA history, the other an unconvincing “brumance”. Muddling through the middle of these two genres, the film never really ignites the way one would

It’s been a particularly busy week on the technology front in SA, so we have a bumper edition of the TalkCentral podcast lined up. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson unpack DStv’s BoxOffice servic, consider the latest developments in

Computer Sciences Corp (CSC), one of the world’s largest IT outsourcing companies with annual revenues of US$16bn, plans to quadruple its staff complement in SA in the next 18 months and generate between 10% and 15% of its