Pressure mounts on SA mining

The 2015 financial year has proved to be extremely challenging for South Africa’s mining industry with local cost pressures, labour action, and a continuing downswing in commodity prices resulting in shrinking margins and impairment provisions. Mining companies...

LTE will dominate cellular IoT

A new research report from Berg Insight predicts that LTE will become the leading technology for cellular IoT devices in 2019. The research group forecasts that global shipments of cellular IoT devices will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.1% to...

Last task decides Olympiad winner

Right until the very last question on the last day of this year’s Programming Olympiad, the two top participants matched each other question by question and mark by mark. “It was uncanny,” says Peter Waker, manager of the Olympiad. “Both Ulrik...

Pitch and win at AfricaCom

Echoing the continental call for entrepreneurial excellence in technology, organisers of this year’s AfricaCom have created an event that will bring together innovators and investors in one arena. Taking place on Wednesday 18 November, five short-listed...

Cell C selling new iPhones from tomorrow

Cell C will offer a number of bundles to its clients for the latest iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus from tomorrow (Friday 16 October). The company says the iPhone 6s 16GB will be available starting at R449 per month for 24 months on the Epic 150 plan. iPhone 6s Plus 16GB...

Facebook tests in-app shopping

Commerce is fuelling the next wave of mobile innovation and there has been a flurry of recent activity from leading companies across the mobile ecosystem from Apple Pay, Android Pay and apps such as LINE and KakaoTalk.