MWC: M-Pesa enters 5 new markets

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, international payment and money transfer hub HomeSend announced the expansion of...

MWC: Visa makes wearables payable

Visa announced at Mobile World Congress that it is expanding its Visa Ready program to include...

MWC: BlackBerry launches security consulting service

BlackBerry used Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week to announce the launch of a new...

MWC: Connected Car gets higher gear

Summit Tech has launched the upgraded connected car at Mobile World Congress with new features including...

MWC: Panasonic wants your connection

Panasonic has used Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to introduce a suite of connected products for...

MWC: Telegram hits 100m

Fast-growing messaging service Telegram announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week that over 100-million people worldwide were now...

MWC: HTC opens Valve to VR

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, HTC, in partnership with Valve, has unveiled the consumer edition...

LG makes early running at Mobile World

LG is the surprise front-runner in new technology roll-outs at the annual Mobile World Congress in...

AppDate: Get deleted files back

In this AppDate, SEAN BACHER highlights Disk Drill, KaChing Cashless parking, Opera’s Rovio content offering, JustWatch,...

MWC: Lenovo unveils new tablet family

At the Mobile World Congress currently underway in Barcelona, Lenovo unveiled the TAB3 10 Business, an...

MWC: Alcatel takes Idol up a notch

Alcatel has announced the new Idol 4 series of smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Building...

MWC: ZTE maps out 5G future

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, ZTE unveiled its 5G-oriented future network architecture design concept...

Google joins SA video-on-demand entertainment war

Google joined the video-on-demand fray in South Africa this week, launching its Play Movies service into...

Volvo to replace car key with smartphone

Volvo Cars plans to offer its customers a smartphone application that it says will make its...

Another first for robot surgery in Africa

The Urology Hospital in Pretoria has successfully conducted Africa’s first robotic-assisted removal of a cancerous bladder...

Almost a third of mobile data lost to background

A new app-usage finding, conducted through Opera Max users, shows that on average over 30% of...

Vumatel offers free uncapped fibre to schools

After a successful pilot with three schools, Vumatel will roll out free uncapped open access fibre...

Malware targets smartphones

According to Kaspersky Lab, the volume of spam e-mails in 2015 decreased to 55.28% of overall...

Samsung unveils “innovation that makes a difference”

Samsung Electronics today unveiled its product line-up for 2016 at its annual Samsung Africa Forum event. The...

The broadband narrows

If broadband is so important that it even makes it into the President’s State of the...