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Wakkerstroom is the first smartphone-only town in South Africa

Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga is now the first smartphone-only town in South Africa thanks to a partnership between Vodacom Mpumalanga and BPG Langfontein, a farming…

Cape Town urges residents to use online services during COVID-19 second wave

The City of Cape Town has urged residents to use online and telephonic options for a number of city services while the country is…

Ditch your Gautrain card by using Samsung Pay

Samsung has announced that its contactless payment solution Samsung Pay can now be used at Gautrain stations — removing the need to pre-load a…

WhatsApp adds Carts feature to make shopping easier

WhatsApp just expanded its online shopping capabilities by adding a shopping cart functionality to its platform, allowing users to group multiple items for a…

What did South Africans search for in 2020? Google reveals top searches…

Google South Africa has released its 2020 Year in Search report, which reveals the top searches and trends on the Google search engine in…

Telkom Pay: Digital wallet that works with WhatsApp launched

Telkom has launched the Telkom Pay Digital Wallet, aka Telkom Pay, a digital payment platform that works via WhatsApp. The digital wallet lets users…

Spotify Wrapped 2020: How to see your year of music streaming

Damn, I can’t tell if 2020 went by really fast or painfully slow. But we’re here! Two decades into the 21st century and, as…

Instagram is letting companies ‘promote’ influencers’ posts as ads

Instagram is about to shove even more advertising down your throat according to a new blog post on Tuesday. The social network announced that…

Apple, like Google and Facebook, now also has a login button

With all the operating system and hardware announcements from WWDC 2019 this week, the fact that you can now log in to services using…

Apple tvOS 13 supports multiple user profiles, debuts new Home Screen

At WWDC 2019 on Monday, Apple previewed the upcoming tvOS 13 for Apple TV 4K. According to Apple, tvOS 13 will make Apple TV…

Apple officially kills iTunes and replaces it with three separate apps

The rumours were true. On Monday Apple confirmed that it will be splitting iTunes into three apps dedicated to music, TV and podcasts for…

MacOS Catalina will let you use your iPad as a second display

Apple debuted MacOS Catalina at its WWDC 2019 keynote on Monday. While the headline news for the new version of the operating system is…

WatchOS 6: the new features heading to the Apple Watch

It’s a software bonanza is Cupertino on Monday. During the keynote of WWDC, Apple’s Tim Cook unveiled iPadOS — a new operating system for…

13 things you should know about Apple’s iOS 13

Apple on Monday announced a slew of software updates and new products, including iPadOS. But while the iPad gets its own operating system as…

iPadOS: Apple debuts new operating system for its tablet range

In light of years of slowing tablet sales, and months of slowing smartphone sales, Apple has finally recognised that the iPad deserves its own…

Is Apple about to kill iTunes? Company scrubs social media in preparation

Apple will discontinue iTunes as we know it in favour of separate apps catering for music, podcasts and movies, reports suggest. Last week Bloomberg claimed…

Google Cloud outage knocks a chunk of the internet offline in the US

A Google Cloud outage on Sunday plunged most of North America and some of Europe into the 1980s. Services like Gmail, Google’s G Suite,…

Google Maps now highlights restaurants’ popular dishes rated by users

Trying out a new restaurant but have no idea what to order? Google Maps will now highlight a restaurant’s most popular dishes enjoyed, photographed…

Rain changes its name to ‘Go Proteas’ for the Cricket World Cup

Don’t be alarmed, Rain users. The South African national cricket team didn’t just buy the data-only network. Instead, Rain has changed its network name…

You can’t save contacts’ profile pics on WhatsApp’s latest iOS beta

If you’re using WhatsApp on an Apple device there are a few interesting if not flat-out inconvenient changes coming to the app. As spotted…

Google Maps’ speed limit, speed trap warnings now live in South Africa

You’d previously have to download Waze if you wanted traffic notifications and speed camera warnings in realtime. But now, you’ll be able to access…

Flipboard changes all user passwords after ‘security incident’ exposes account info

If you’re a Flipboard user, you should probably log in today and change your password. The popular news aggregation service this week “identified unauthorised…

Huawei applies pressure to end lawsuit against US government’s trade ban

In a trade war that has been decidedly one sided until now, Huawei is finally applying more pressure on the US government. In a…

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