Banking group Nedbank has launched a mobile point-of-sale (POS) device, called the PocketPOS, that accepts both magnetic and chip-and-Pin credit and debit cards. The device connects to a smartphone using Bluetooth and is operated by means of a mobile application. The PocketPOS
The influence of the powerful and politically well-connected Gupta family is set to grow this year with the addition to its media portfolio of a 24-hour news channel on the continent-wide DStv satellite platform, and a new prime-time slot on SABC. The owners of
In case you missed his first contribution last week, Jerm (also known as Jeremy Nell) has joined the TechCentral editorial team. Jerm, whose current affairs cartoons are widely talked about, is contributing an exclusive tech-focused weekly cartoon, called Backspace
The flat-rate BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), which has helped make BlackBerry devices so popular in South Africa, may soon be a thing of the past, with talk that operators plan to opt for bundled data of the sort offered with other smartphones. This may apply to older devices
Digital divide, digital dividend, digital yadi-yadah. You would be forgiven if the term “digital dividend” didn’t immediately resonate with you given the proliferation of all things “digital” in recent years. A quick reminder then. The digital dividend refers to the
Retailer Look & Listen has said that from next Tuesday, 12 February, it will no longer offer consumers the option to make purchases of either physical goods or digital downloads from its website, reversing a trend by bricks-and-mortar retailers to online sales. The company
Smartphones offer a potential wealth of data in terms of the location of their users and, given the cost of different devices, their income bracket.
For digital advertisers, this means mobile websites can be monetised more easily by selling highly targeted and hyper-local ads. That’s one
A new Johannesburg-based start-up, MiName, has been established to connect consumers with brands they actually want to hear from, while rewarding them at the same time for accepting to be marketed to. Users decide who can market what to them
Headline earnings per share at technology group Jasco slumped by 26,9% in the six months ended 31 December 2012 due to “adverse market conditions” that “severely impacted” some of its operating businesses. Although group revenue rose
Sidestepping the ZA Tech Show’s service provider’s best efforts to sabotage the new recording time, Brett Haggard and Steven Ambrose get together a day later than planned to discuss 4G/LTE on the iPhone 5, the launch of BlackBerry 10, Microsoft’s 4Afrika campaign
