Author: Gugu Lourie
Absa is the second South African bank to deploy voice biometrics or recognition service to analyse and verify private banking clients based on their speech patterns and allows them to execute phone banking transactions through the bank’s call centre in a secure, smarter and quick manner. Absa Bank informed its private banking clients on its website that “a new way to bank is here. New voice-activated account technology”. It added: “The secure voice biometric technology means accessing your account has become faster (no lengthy call with consultants), smarter (authenticates your identity using the biometrics in your voice (voiceprint) to access…
Scammers are trying to steal cash from prepaid subscribers, claiming that people have used a massive amount of data on smartphones. By Duncan Alfreds, NewsAgency Some Fin24 users on prepaid mobile service have received phone calls from people claiming to represent Vodacom or MTN, and demanding payment for data bundles exceeding R2 500. But it is likely a scam. “We wish to put it on record that Vodacom will never call or SMS prepaid subscribers to demand ‘outstanding payments’ as prepaid customers use the service they’ve already paid for in advance,” Tshepo Ramodibe, Vodacom executive head of corporate affairs, told Fin24.…
Vouchers good for one, three and six month subscriptions to ShowMax have gone on sale at selected Pick n Pay stores in South Africa. This development has the dual benefit of making it possible to give ShowMax subscriptions as a gift, and also enables those without a credit card to access the service. ShowMax subscription vouchers have gone on sale at selected Pick n Pay stores in South Africa. Priced at R99, R297, and R594, these vouchers give one, three, or six months’ access to the ShowMax internet video streaming service with Africa’s largest catalogue of TV series and movies.…
South African technology firm Poynting, which manufacturer and supply antenna solutions, is planning to ship 500 000 digital TV antennas to the South African Post Office to kick-start the country’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television. By Staff Writer February 1, 2016 has been set as the day when analogue television broadcasting will be converted and replaced by digital television South Africa missed the June deadline, set by the International Telecommunications Union, to have all television broadcasts switched to the digital medium Poynting said on Thursday that the migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television kicked-off today with the delivery of the first shipment…
Vodacom [JSE:VOD] has rejected an attempt to attach its assets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid a legal dispute
MTN to spend more than R1 billion ($67.5 million) in Ghana to buy a 15 year 4G/LTE licence in the 800 MHz spectrum band
The ANC on Wednesday claimed the poor attendance at the #ZumaMustFall marches was an affirmation that President Jacob Zuma’s decision to appoint Pravin Gordhan as minister of finance was generally accepted by South Africans.
MTN announced on Wednesday that its Côte d’Ivoire operation has paid 75% or CFA F 75 billion of the new telecommunications operator unified license acquisition cost to the government of Cote d’Ivoire. By Staff Writer The GSM license was to expire on 1 April 2016, after 20 years of operation. MTN was expected to pay 50% of the license cost amounting to CFAF 100 billion to the Government of Côte d’Ivoire 15 December 2015. “By paying 75%, which is above the required 50% minimum, MTN Côte d’Ivoire obtains the extension of the operating term of the unified license for 17 years, for commissioning all services and products associated to 2G / 3G / 4G / LTE and upcoming new technologies,” the operator said in a…
While the rest of the world is still waiting to re-immerse themselves in a galaxy far, far away, South Africa finds itself on the lucky end of the spectrum, with the movie being released on Wednesday. By Ahmed Areff, NewsAgency At the premiere at the Eastgate Shopping Centre on Tuesday night, Star Wars fans and local celebrities gathered to see whether director JJ Abrams’ take on the beloved franchise was worth the wait. Here are five relatively spoiler-free things you should know about the movie: 1) It has a lot of parallels with the first movie (A New Hope) Everything that…
A Cape Town teacher who cut his teeth by teaching Sunday school as a teenager has been shortlisted for the Global Teacher of the Year Award. By Tammy Petersen, NewsAgency Warren Sparrow, the head of information and communication technology at Rondebosch Boys’ Preparatory School, is one of 50 finalists in the running for what has been dubbed the Nobel Prize in teaching. “I can’t put into words what a great honour this is. I am humbled,” he said on Tuesday. READ MORE: Thanks for ‘wonderful’ teacher He celebrated with his wife over a glass of wine after recently being informed that…