F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
You can now watch Netflix in India for just R40 a month
India now has a Netflix subscription plan for mobile-only single-device streaming, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tier, which will cost just Rs…
Google debuts Gallery Go, a lite photo management app for Android
Without much fanfare, Google on Wednesday launched a brand new lite app for managing photographs on your phone. Called Google Gallery Go, the app…
South Africa’s voracious appetite for IT will continue into grow in 2019
While the rest of the world’s fumbling around the change pocket, South Africa’s out here in 2019 throwing big bills on IT infrastructure. According…
Cape Town dams now 65% full after rain from ‘intense’ cold front
All this rain in Cape Town has to go somewhere, right? According to the City, it seems that a fair amount has found its…
Update: two cold fronts, bringing snow and heavy rain, set to lash Cape Town on Tuesday
Update #6, Tuesday 23 July, 6pm: Looks like the bulk of the storm is largely over, at least for Cape Town. The latest satellite…
Twitter’s coping with the Boris Johnson news by posting Donald Trump memes
Former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson will be the next UK prime minister, beating rival Jeremy Hunt by a clear margin in the race…
Leopard found wandering around Benoni goes viral on Facebook
We’re used to hearing of baboons infiltrating houses in Cape Town, or lions escaping from the Kruger National Park, but leopards hiding in laundry…
The Lion King made R24.5m in South Africa in its first weekend
Disney’s new uncanny valley Lion King remake may have been disliked by critics, but it sure is appealing to South African movie goers. In…
Taxi Live Africa brings Uber-like ehailing features to metered taxis
Since Uber arrived in South Africa in 2013, there’s been a fierce (and often violent) rivalry between those employing the technology and metered taxi…
WhatsApp is officially coming to millions of KaiOS feature phones
You may take WhatsApp for granted on your capable Android or iOS smartphone, but millions of smart feature phone users across the world were…
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