Tired of high roaming cellular costs while travelling abroad? ExecMobile is a Johannesburg-based company that provides Sim cards and portable Wi-Fi units for 36 countries, meaning people who want data only while overseas needn’t pay exorbitant roaming fees
Vodacom will begin informing customers via SMS when they’re abroad about the roaming rates that are applicable in the foreign countries they travel into. The service, known as “roaming tariff information” SMS is designed to help consumers avoid roaming bill shock, the company says. The service will notify customers
Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson bring you a bumper end-of-year edition of TalkCentral, clocking in at more than an hour, in which we reveal our favourite gadgets of 2011, from tablets to smartphones and from ultrabooks to TVs. We also do a live demonstration of Siri, for those who are keen to see how
Africa, the birthplace of the human species, has long been a magnet for archaeologists. Now SA wants to draw leading astrophysicists to the continent as well with the world’s most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an instrument that would be able to look back to the infancy of the universe
Every now and then a gadget comes along that really blows our hair back. Often it’s not even the flashiest or priciest gadgets that do it, but the ones that take us by surprise by doing something we’ve never seen before. The Mighty Dwarf “vibration multimedia speaker” is one such device. The Mighty Dwarf turns any surface
A reading of a detailed draft plan by the telecommunications regulator to license radio frequency spectrum for next-generation wireless broadband networks shows it wants to entice new entrants, maximise competition and encourage infrastructure sharing. It could change SA’s telecoms
Wondering what to get your geek(s) this festive season? Our special ZA Tech Show holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle have some suggestions for you.We discuss branded notebooks, gaming gifts, gadgets and other great must-haves for this year
The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to simulate the human brain using supercomputers to allow neuroscientists, biologists, physicists and computer scientists to better understand the brain and to provide them with the tools to simulate diseases and, hopefully, come closer to alleviating
And here they are. TechCentral’s top five newsmakers of 2011. Our “Newsmakers of the Year” award is presented to individuals we believe had the biggest impact on SA’s technology sector in the past 12 months. For the most part, they’re also the the people who made the headlines during the
Vodacom has secured a licence from the Financial Services Board to begin selling insurance products directly to its customers as it seeks to broaden its portfolio and expand its revenue streams in a maturing mobile market. There are few details available for now, but TechCentral has established that the cellular network
