Category: <span>Mobile</span>

In celebrating their 20 years of working together, Orlando Pirates and Vodacom have once again joined forces to launch Orlando Pirates Funeral Cover under-written by Vodacom Life Assurance Company. The Orlando Pirates Funeral Cover protects you against unforeseen expenses during the toughest time for your family and helps take care of the people that matter....

Instagram has announced that the company is planning to improve its rankings algorithm to highlight original content on its platform.  According to the platform head Adam Mosseri, the photo and video sharing social media are moving things around to its ranking algorithm to prioritise the distribution of original content instead of reposted content, in places...

MTN South Africa has said that widespread infrastructure damage and power outages in KwaZulu-Natal caused by flooding resulted in over 500 of its sites going down in the region. MTN South Africa has said that widespread infrastructure damage and power outages in KwaZulu-Natal caused by flooding resulted in over 500 of its sites going down...

The mobile operator Vodacom Group has announced that Balesh Sharma, Vodacom South Africa’s managing director will step down from his duties in June 2022. According to the company, Mr Sharma is planning to explore new opportunities in Europe.  Vodacom in a statement said, “He returned to India to help the company fight one of the...

Consumer spending on mobile apps reached $170 billion in 2021 according to App Annie’s newly released “State of Mobile 2022″ report, seeing 230 billion apps downloaded worldwide in 2021, setting another record. As phones become more accessible and data costs start to decrease in Africa, smart devices rapidly extended beyond social and communication tools and...

South African mobile operator MTN increases prices which will come into effect from the beginning of May 2022.  The mobile network says it’s becoming impossible to absorb the current and every growing inflation.  MTN SA chief consumer officer Mapula Bodibe said, “We have tried to keep the price increases to a minimum in a bid...

Apple Inc said all its services, including the App Store, Apple TV and Apple Music, have resumed following an outage that started late afternoon on Monday. Nearly a dozen Apple services were down for thousands of users. The company’s system status page had showed 11 outages including podcasts, music and arcade. It said Apple was investigating...

Brazil’s Supreme Court revoked on Sunday an order suspending the use of messaging app Telegram in the country after the company complied with court requests to block accounts that allegedly spread disinformation, according to a statement on the court’s website. On Friday, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the suspension, saying Telegram had repeatedly...

Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn is halting operations at its Shenzhen sites, one of which produces iPhones, in response to a government-imposed lockdown on the tech hub city. The Taiwanese company, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., has its China headquarters in the area and a key manufacturing site in Guanlan. It is suspending...

South Africa’s Competition Commission on Monday said it had referred Facebook and WhatsApp owner Meta Platforms to a tribunal for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market. But a spokesperson for WhatsApp said the regulator was objecting to actions meant to protect the platform’s users from abuses of WhatsApp’s terms. In a statement, the...