Excitement surges through a school hall set in the vast SA outback as rows of children roar “S-K-A” on a chilly winter morning. The shout-out is for the world’s most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, to be built 80km from Carnarvon along a dirt road that winds through scrubby, dry farmland into isolation
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The sleepy SA town of Carnarvon has more churches than ATMs, but science is breathing new life into the far-flung farming centre. The former 19th-century mission station is the closest town to a science and astronomy hub that is forming in the arid central Karoo region where the Square Kilometre Array
Samsung Electronics SA has appointed Matthew Thackrah to the newly created position of deputy MD, just weeks after the sudden resignation of MD Deon Liebenberg, who left the Korean consumer electronics giant to take the reins at Telkom Business Mobile. Thackrah, who has
With no set agenda, Andy Hadfield, Dave Greenway and Brett Haggard get stuck into some tech-rambling and discuss the launch of Realtime Wine, Dropbox space, the Retina-sporting MacBook Pro, Cell C and the iPhone, Vodacom’s roaming prices, and much more
The best possible solutions needed to be explored for the implementation of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said in Johannesburg on Friday. “There should be no overburdening of poor people with added cost,” Motlanthe
Nokia Siemens Networks is slashing its local workforce by 28%, Business Day reported on Wednesday. The joint venture was cutting jobs as part of its global strategy to reduce cost and focus on mobile broadband. Nokia, once the world’s dominant cellphone provider, was also shedding
MTN Business MD Angela Gahagan-Thomson has stepped down and will be “pursuing interests outside the company”. She says MTN SA is “restructuring” its operations and she felt it was “time to do some new things”. At the same time, MTN SA chief financial officer Zunaid Bulbulia
The much talked about credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer, developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is now available in SA with no further order backlogs, its local distributor has said. RS Components SA says it is now accepting general orders for the
First National Bank is adding a push-based instant messaging service to its smartphone banking application based on its inContact alert service, which will allow users to see a list version of their expenses when they select the messages icon in the app. The product, when it is rolled out to consumers
Six men appeared in the Pretoria specialised commercial crime court on Monday in connection with credit card fraud involving millions, the Hawks said. The men, two South Africans, two Nigerians, one Burundian and a Democratic Republic of Congo citizen, would remain in custody until their next court