South Africans can finally download music from Apple’s iTunes Store, the US firm said in a statement on Tuesday. The news comes just a day after the company announced that the iPhone 5 would be launched in South Africa on 14 December. “Apple today announced the launch of the iTunes Store in Russia
Technology entrepreneur Stafford Masie spent two-and-a-half years working on the Payment Pebble smartphone payment device before it was unveiled last week by retail banking giant Absa. The device was engineered and built by Masie’s Centurion-based company Thumbzup, which he wants
The iPhone 5 will be launched in South Africa on 14 December. Apple announced on Monday that the highly coveted smartphone will be launched in more than 50 additional countries over the next 10 days. “Apple today announced that the iPhone 5 will be available in South Korea
HTC’s new Desire handsets, the diminutive C and its bigger brother the X, are both excellent and affordable smartphones. The Taiwanese company makes excellent devices. Its recent One X easily matches the (better selling) Samsung Galaxy S3, and in the early days of Android it made some of the
Datatec was trading off by more than 2% in midmorning trading on the JSE on Monday after it warned that its biggest subsidiary, technology distributor Westcon, experienced a weak third financial quarter. “Westcon’s performance in the third quarter has been
The introduction by South African mobile operators of next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) networks does not amount to much. But we can’t ignore it because these networks are the first bit of evidence of a future of lost opportunities to deliver cheap, properly fast and ubiquitous broadband
Independent cellphone tower operator IHS, which is headquartered in Nigeria, has secured a US$202m syndicated credit facility from Ecobank Capital and other banks. The money will be used to help facilitate IHS’s acquisition of MTN Group’s 1 757 base stations in Cameroon and
The Hawks arrested two Bulgarian men on Sunday after 12 bank-card skimming devices were found in their house in Pretoria, said police. Captain Paul Ramaloko reported that this was the largest number of the devices ever found in one operation. The arrests came
If you play music outside of your home or car and there are other people around to hear it, technically you owe the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) money. And it doesn’t matter if the music is recorded or from the radio. The same holds true if you run
Skyfall takes James Bond to darker, more personal places than any other film in the series ever has. Before the film rebuilds him, its Bond is a wreck, pill-popping and borderline alcoholic, his nerves as shattered as his body is dilapidated. He’s an anachronism, a symbol of the withering
