Category: Technology

Ugandan entrepreneur, Ashish Thakkar of Mara Corporation has announced that his organization will be launching smartphones made in Africa in 2019. Unlike the norm of simply having phones assembled in Africa, Maraphones, as they are called, will be manufactured here by Africans in plants set up across the continent. The announcement and unveiling of the Maraphone prototype […]

Facebook said it’s making progress on detecting hate speech, graphic violence and other violations of its rules, even before users see and report them. Facebook said that during the April-to-September period, it doubled the amount of hate speech it detected proactively, compared with the previous six months. The findings were spelled out Thursday in Facebook’s second […]

Netflix South Africa is offering users of the streaming service a new package according to MyBroadband. The Ultra package is above the Premium package and has replaced the Premium package as the top package available to users. According to the Netflix page, the Ultra package costs R239. The below table shows the costs of the different […]

As of right now, there is still no official word on when an edit button will come to be. At an event in New Delhi Monday, as reported by The Next Web, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company is strongly considering an edit button — but just to fix small typos. Chronic typo makers […]

To offset the creepiness of having Facebook’s  camera and microphone in your house, its new Portal video chat gadget needs best-in-class software.  Its hardware is remarkably well done, plus Messenger and the photo frame feature work great. But its third-party app platform was pretty skimpy when the device launched this week. Facebook is increasingly relying on its smart display competitors to […]

Video-gaming publisher Activision announced that in celebration of the PC release of Destiny 2, the company will be offering the game for free for a limited time. Game Director Steve Cotton made the announcement during Blizzard’s pre-show at this year’s BlizzCon festival. Users will be allowed to download the game between now and November 18th and will […]

Telecommunications giant Telkom has signed a “multi-billion rand” deal with competitor Vodacom for it to roam on Vodacom’s vast network starting from June 2019. The deal replaces Telkom’s current roaming agreement with MTN which is set to expire in 2019. In Wednesday’s announcement, Telkom said the agreement with Vodacom covers 2G, 3G and 4G networks which will include […]

Samsung has unveiled a folding handset at an event in San Francisco. It described its Infinity Flex Display as “the foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow” and said it intended to start production within months. When unfolded, the device resembles a 7.3in (18.5cm) tablet. When closed, a separate smaller “cover display” on the handset’s other […]

Google said Wednesday it has made tremendous progress in helping internet users legitimately get songs, films and apps while choking off revenue to websites with stolen digital content. A 64-page report released by Google claimed progress in the war on piracy, but also noted a new battlefront in the form of “add-on” software that can […]

Are you a fan of TED Talks? Then don’t miss out on this opportunity to attend TEDxPretoria on 17 November 2018! The mind-shifting short-talk phenomenon returns to Tshwane in November for a day of disruptive ideas and bold new voices challenging a business-savvy audience to reboot their thoughts and actions to meet the needs of […]