Google will launch an SA version of its popular Street View service. In the coming weeks Google, using Toyota Prius models, will begin driving around the country, taking photographs of locations, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Durban.

The annual Design Indaba conference kicks off in Cape Town today, for those of you not lucky enough to be there you can keep an eye on the official Design Indaba 2009 website for the latest news.
Since 1995, Design Indaba has been committed to a vision that is built on the belief that creativity will [...]

MTN is piloting a domestic money transfer service in South Africa using its MobileMoney system, as an added value to its customers.

This is part 2 of Read Write Web’s focus on Africa, Part 2 is about mobile innovations in Africa. Below are some of the top level stats on mobile from the report.

Those of us who live in Africa are well aware of the dramatic and growth the web and mobile technologies are experiencing. Particularly in SA there is no shortage of tech intellectual capital and the industry is changing and growing at an exciting pace.

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Opera Software have released their State of the Mobile Web report, most significant is the fact that South Africa has jumped to 6th place in terms of mobile usage.
The report takes a look at the breadth of the mobile web. You might call this the Long Tail, a trend that in the case of [...]