There have been reports of poor conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, which the US Navy says will soon be brought home from the Middle East. The aircraft carrier was originally expected back in May – but the US war with Iran has kept it at sea for around 250 days straight. BBC Verify…
Following an improbable initial leak via a scuba diving discovery, Google has officially launched the Pixel Watch 5. While the smartwatch’s exterior design closely mirrors its predecessor, it introduces major health-monitoring algorithms, expanded storage, and performance tweaks beneath the hood. Read: Google unveils Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL Rather than overhauling the external hardware,…
Sunshine Tour Master. At the Amashova Durban Classic this month, 4 000 cyclists rode a route between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, while somewhere behind the scenes, Netstar deployed live tracking across the entire operational fleet – every lead vehicle, every ambulance, every support crew and repair service, monitored and mobilised in real-time. What’s worth noting is…
Netstar has spent this year embedding itself in South African sport. Look closely and what emerges is less a sponsorship strategy than a business genuinely enthusiastic about using an existing capability to solve new and interesting problems. At the Amashova Durban Classic this month, 4 000 cyclists rode a route between Pietermaritzburg and Durban while, somewhere…
Roughly one in two smartphones sold in Africa is made by a company most buyers have never heard of. Transsion, a Shenzhen-based manufacturer, owns the Tecno, Infinix and Itel brands, which together accounted for about 48% of African smartphone shipments in 2025 – more than 40 million of the 84.4 million handsets shipped on the…
Will customers be able to pay? (Image: Altron FinTech) For most of South Africa’s merchants, the question that matters at the end of each month is deceptively simple: will customers be able to pay? Behind every swipe, debit order and instalment lies a household balance sheet under pressure – and for the businesses that depend…
Netstar, the vehicle-tracking and telematics business owned by JSE-listed Altron Group, is positioning to turn the movement data it collects from more than 2.2 million vehicles into a commercial data product aimed at insurers, banks and government. The plan was set out at Altron’s capital markets day on Tuesday, where Netstar MD Warren Mande and…
Most tracking systems are designed to operate in stable environments, where connectivity is assumed and visibility is continuous. That assumption no longer holds. In South Africa, the communication layer that underpins asset tracking is increasingly being targeted as part of the attack itself. What was designed as an enabler of visibility has become a point…
The Conflict Insights Group (CIG) says its research also shows the extent of UAE involvement.
Vumacam’s control room operators used multiple technologies to track a vehicle of interest. (Image: Supplied) A suspect linked to a theft was arrested in Johannesburg following a joint operation involving Vumacam, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) and 24/7 Drone Force. According to the parties involved, Vumacam’s control room operators received an alert related to…
