First National Bank this week lifted the lid on a new payment mechanism that uses the GPS feature in modern smartphones. It won’t result in the much-hyped cashless society, but it could greatly reduce South Africans’ reliance on cash over time. The new payment feature, which is included in an update to
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Well-known entrepreneur and investor and former Google SA boss Stafford Masie believes near-field communication (NFC) technology will fail as a mainstream transactional platform and local banks’ attempts to implement systems based on it are “farcical” and offer “no value”. NFC is a set of standards that
Stafford Masie, just 37, has had a highly eventful career, having been the first SA country manager for Google and working for multinational corporations like Novell. He’s now dabbling in numerous start-ups and technology businesses. TechCentral’s Craig Wilson
TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sits down with technology entrepreneur and angel investor Stafford Masie to talk about “ambient aware ecosystems” — building “sensory awareness” into everything, creating application programming interfaces that developers can tap
Mobile operators are desperate to associate their brands with Apple and its iconic iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet computer. It’s ironic, because the business model the US electronics giant employs threatens to turn wireless carriers into little
In the fourth episode of Tech Talk, broadcast during the Tech@Work television show on DStv channel 410 on Tuesday evenings, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sits down with technology entrepreneur and angel investor
Government does not understand the magnitude of the “crisis” SA’s telecommunications industry is facing, says former Google SA country manager Stafford Masie. During a panel discussion at the Tech4Africa conference held in Johannesburg on Thursday, Masie, who is now consulting to undersea cable operator Seacom, slammed what he described as a “shambles” at the department of communications as well as problems at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), which he says are holding back the sector.
Finding locations on GPS devices can sometimes be a pain. Entering address information can take a long time. And enter one thing wrong, and you have to start again. Now, though, SA start-up Waytag has developed a solution it says will make it easier for people to find what they’re looking for in navigation software
Stafford Masie returns to the show this week, joining Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:…