The ZA Tech Show has a packed panel this week, with Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle discussing the craziness of patents in the mobile industry, Android updates and fragmentation, Pieter Uys’s resignation as Vodacom CEO, iPhone coming to Cell C, Windows 8, and lots more
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A local technology start-up wants to take the hassle and confusion out of filing tax returns using the SA Revenue Service’s eFiling platform. Marc Sevitz and Evan Robinson, both 28, started TaxTim last year. The two pitched the idea to Google’s Umbono
In mid-June 2012, when the big Internet players revealed their cards in the highest stakes game in Web history, the best Africa could come up with was four predictable geographic generic top-level domains, namely .joburg, .durban, .capetown and .africa. There were also a few applications from our pals over at
These are dark days for BlackBerry and Research in Motion (RIM). Though the Canadian company’s smartphones continue to sell well in some emerging markets, including SA, consumers at the higher end — they are the more profitable segment for handset
The Web, with all its hazards, is the new playground for children, a Google SA official said on Wednesday. “Like in any playground, you don’t abandon your children, but supervise and check how they are playing there,” the search engine’s public manager, Fortune Sibanda, told a conference on child abuse in
Google has launched its Map Maker service in SA. It allows users to add locations and information to Google Maps via a peer-reviewed process. The crowd-sourcing of information from local users will provide Google and its users with
Google has expanded its live traffic coverage, where traffic information is overlaid on its Maps service, to include Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. The service is available when using Google Maps online. The service works by crowd-sourcing information about
The battle for the tablet computer market became much more intense on Monday, with Microsoft breaking with its past approaches and announcing it was developing its own line of tablets, to be called Surface. The company offered a preview of a pair of tablets that it intends manufacturing itself
Having shed its partnership with Ericsson, Japan’s Sony is still trying to find its feet in the Android handset market. Despite marketing capabilities to rival Samsung’s, Sony hasn’t managed to cement itself a place in the smartphone war. The Xperia S looks unlikely to change that. The top-end Xperia is a
Finish mobile device manufacturer Nokia has lost out to Apple in the fight to decide on a new standard for Sim cards. Other competitors included BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion and Google’s recent acquisition, Motorola Mobility. The hope is that smaller Sim cards will allow for better use of