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Cellphone banking for the masses

A little more than a year ago cellphone banking was a fad for those who could tell the difference between WAP, WIG and USSD. Now on the brink of mass market uptake, cellphone…

A new-look Office suite

If you’re looking for that feature in Microsoft Word or Excel and you can’t remember where you originally found it, you’re not alone. About 80% of feature requests from users…

Google premiers online tools

Why pay for an expensive productivity package like Office when you can use one for free, online, from any ­computer? Google is hoping that millions of web users are thinking…

Time to go mobile

Eric van Zyl is finally happy with the service from his cellphone provider. He was the first subscriber to switch from his old network to South Africa’s newest operator, Virgin…

Join the YouTube generation

It’s an old tune that has been playing in South Africa for years — unless we get viable and cheap broadband the country will be left behind. The digital divide may separate those…

Make your own podcast

Three times a week, Brian Ibbott sits in his converted basement in his Denver house and plays his favourite cover songs. He explains their origins, reveals little-known musical…

Speaking Google

Google indexes about eight billion Web pages and it is fair to assume that if the information is on the Internet, Google, or any other search engine for that matter, will be able…

Chinese IT giant goes global

Lenovo, the world’s third-largest and Asia”s largest computer-maker, signalled its intention recently to compete globally with top companies Dell and Hewlett-Packard, after…

Broadband bunfight hots up

In the week South African cyberspace was given an area code (O87), the country’s first report on wireless broadband offerings was released and the cheapest asymmetric digital…

The outlaws who sold Skype for $3,2bn

A few years ago, Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were persona non grata in the United States, scared to enter the country in case they were arrested for…

South Africa’s other space pioneer

Ask most South Africans who our most successful internet entrepreneur and space adventurer is and they’ll tell you it’s Mark Shuttleworth. But Elon Musk might just go down in…

Andile Ngcaba hooks big state contract

Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions being chosen as the government’s Internet service provider recently is the first major government deal since Andile Ngcaba became DiData…

Telkom and Icasa lock horns over ADSL

The most high profile legal battle in three years is likely between Telkom and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) over the cost of high-speed…

.mobi domain launched

Cellphones moved a step closer to being fully-fledged Internet terminals when the .mobi domain was introduced this week. Until now, surfing the Web using a cellphone was…