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SA Home Affairs to Refocus on Tech Initiatives for 2020
The Department of Home Affairs in South Africa is set to work on a number of new tech-focused initiatives over the oncoming financial year, reports My Broadband looking at the National Treasury’s estimates of national expenditure in 2020. At the…
Kaspersky Innovation Hub Creates First Blockchain-Based Voting Machine
Polys, a project from Kaspersky Innovation Hub which is developing a secure online voting platform for businesses, universities and political parties has revealed its new prototype for the Polys Voting Machine. This new machine is the first of its kind…
Top 4 Most Trending Stories – Week in Review
As this week comes to a close we take a look at the articles that resonated most with our readers. From the most popular apps in the South African Appstore and the country’s most valuable telecoms to 5 distinct ways…
Google Earth Finally Available on Browsers Other than Chrome
Google is releasing its web-based version of Google Earth on browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera today, reports The Verge. Google released Earth for web integration in 2017, killing its desktop app while it was at it. Earth…
A Guide to Finally Understanding Blockchain
You’ve probably heard of it You know it’s important and that it’s going to be massive someday, maybe very soon – you also know that it’s being used more and more in unique ways to make human lives easier and…
Namibia Bans Pyramid Scheme Most Popular with South Africans
Crowd1, the “get-rich-quick” business operation has just been banned in Namibia with the Bank of Namibia declaring the business’ operations to be an “undesirable practice” – meaning 10 years in prison or about a $66,000 fine for anyone caught promoting…
Cutting DStv Due to Financial Pressure? Keep Watching, Sports Fans
DStv can be expensive and while many South Africans enjoy the service, many more say they can live without it – especially if they’re in a financial pinch. However, according to financial planning expert David Kop* – this can actually…
Africa: The New Frontier for Emerging Tech
For all the highly publicized ills that the African continent seems to be suffering from – corrupt politics and shortcomings in infrastructure to poor socioeconomic systems, African technology seems to be a shining bright spot. Kay Ugwuede of Tech Cabal…
Huawei launches the Mate Xs Foldable Smartphone
Huawei has officially unveiled its latest foldable handset – the Mate Xs – during a virtual press conference on Monday, 24 February 2020. The device was initially set to launch at this year’s MWC event before it was cancelled due…
Will an Increase in Vendorship really save Jumia?
Africa’s ‘answer to Amazon’, Jumia is struggling to bounce back in 2020 after messy NYSE listing followed by the decision to pull out from two African countries, Tanzania and Cameroon. The eCommerce company, that now only operates in 12 African…
StorEx reports big year-on-year growth
StorEx, a leading supplier of Third-Party Maintenance for enterprise-sized organisations, recently reported double-digit growth in its year on year results. Since launching 12 years ago, the company has experienced accelerated growth over the past 18 months as the demand for…
Top 4 Most Trending Stories – Week in Review
As this week comes to a close we take a look at the articles that resonated most with our readers. From an interview with the head of information security from Kaspersky and Google dropping another of their worldwide initiatives to…
LEAKED: Intel’s Latest 10th Generation Desktop CPUs
The specifications of Intel’s new 10th-generation Comet Lake F-series desktop processors have apparently leaked, according to My Broadband via Tom’s Hardware. Informática Cero, an Uruguayan tech website, discovered the leak. Showing part of a PowerPoint presentation containing the purported leaked…
ABSA banking app blocks access to IOS customers
South African financial services provider, ABSA has acknowledged that several customers who use iPhones were restricted access to its banking app. A report from My Broadband suggests that this is because the customers’ data had been erased from ABSA’s systems…
Twitter tests manipulated media policy on ‘harmfully misleading’ tweets
Twitter is playing with the idea of labelling tweets from public figures, including politicians, that contain misinformation or misleading content, according to leaked demos from NBC News. The demos show how misleading or untrue tweets are highlighted with an orange label…
INTERVIEW: New Telco Hopes to Bring “Excellent, Affordable” Internet to Everyone in SA
South Africa is host to a massive digital divide – a phenomenon that exists between socio-economic lines that continues to stop millions of South Africans from achieving more than the circumstances they were born into. A new company, HeroTel, which…
