Local startup Pashash is the latest Google Umbono funded project and is in the process of developing a brand new app that helps people share real shopping with their mobile phones. Bandwidth Blog had the opportunity to chat with co-founder Faheem Kajee to tell us more about the new app, the experience of creating a [...]
Good news to all the Apple fans who have been holding out to get the new Retina display sporting iPad 3rd generation. In a few short weeks it will officially be available in SA. On Friday, April 27, the new iPad will also become available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa, [...]
According to a post published by the New York Times, a source revealed that before Instagram was recently bought by Facebook for $1 billion, Twitter was also interested in acquiring the photo sharing service. According to sources familiar with the deal, in the months before the Facebook deal was secured, Twitter co-founder and Instagram investor [...]
The 14 000km West African Sea Cable (Wacs) the first sub-sea cable along Africa’s west coast since the Sat-3 cable launched 11 years go, will officially be launched in South Africa in about one month’s time. Angus Hay, co-chair of the Wacs management committee and chief technology officer at Neotel, has said that the testing of Wacs has progressed [...]
Intel has recently developed a small tablet called the StudyBook that aims to contribute towards the transformation that is taking place in the way in which tablets are utilised by teachers and students in the class room. While computers and other technologies have been used in many classrooms for decades now and continue to be [...]
Web Africa has recently made some changes to their home ADSL range which will offer the lowest price per gig in South Africa and remove the Peak and Off-peak differentiator for Home ADSL users. From the 2nd April all Peak and Off-Peak Gigs will now be referred to as Any-Time gigs which essentially means that they [...]
On the back of what MTN claims was a successful launch of the R5 recharge voucher, and with the reduction in airtime margins and prepaid tariffs, MTN has launched a new R2 airtime voucher specifically aimed at the need to further lower the denomination of its recharge option by its prepaid customers in Africa. Serame Taukobong, Chief [...]
Vodacom customers can expect roaming savings when travelling to 6 African countries where Vodacom and Vodafone operate. These countries include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique and Tanzania. Vodacom is leveraging its presence and that of its parent company Vodafone in these African countries, to provide customers who travel there with reduced rates applicable across the Vodacom and [...]
Broadband connectivity will be one of the major spurs to the growth of African economies over the next decade, but there is still plenty of work to be done in building the telecommunications backbone that will connect the continent to the global village. This is according to Aidan Baigrie, Head of Business Development at SEACOM, who [...]
A group of local internet entrepreneurs have brought their experience, expertise and love of iOS together and created their very own app. Mike Stopforth, Richard Mulholland, Don Packett, Trevor Mey and Kyle Burnett of App Assassins developed Car Cricket Century. The app is now available for download as a free ad-enabled or paid premium (99c) version [...]
Following the recent announcement made by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA), Telkom agreed to decrease IP interconnect rates by 30%. Large scale Internet Service Providers MTN and MWEB were quick to react. Says Edwin Thompson, general manager of Technology and Infrastructure at MTN Business; “As IP Connect is one of the most expensive [...]
CheqOut, a new local mobile credit card payment app, will be launching in April. The app, a local take on Square, aims to empower small retailers, merchants and individuals, who cannot afford the fees associated with credit card facilities, the ability to accept credit card payments directly from their mobile phones and will initially be [...]
We previously covered the story about the exciting initiative to provide free Wi-Fi for Stellenbosch and its residents. The service, that is offered free of charge and without any need for registration is now live. To access, people can just look out for the Stellenbosch Free Wifi SSID. Range of the wifi is pretty limited [...]
We all know it’s wrong and that we shouldn’t be doing it but despite the negative effects that it has on job markets, various media industries and artists, piracy is something that has become relatively common, justified and something many consumers do, guilt free. Piracy is primarily a result of low incomes, high prices for [...]
According to the Cisco Visual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2011 to 2016, South Africa, mobile data traffic will grow 49-fold from 2011 to 2016, resulting in a compound annual growth rate of 118%. The VNI study also projects that in South Africa, mobile data traffic will reach 102, 565 Terabytes (0.1 Exabytes) per month [...]