South Africans should expect more power cuts, as the distribution grid will gradually collapse from 2015 unless a maintenance backlog is addressed, an expert said on Thursday. “We are three years away from collapse,” Deon Louw, the deputy director of electro-technical services in Overstrand municipality
The ZA Tech Show geeks battle it out in a war of the smartphone keyboards in this week’s episode, in between a discussion about the latest technology news. The panel is made up of Arthur Goldstuck, Ben Kelly and Simon Dingle and they discuss BlackBerry, Jelly Bean, the war between Apple and Google and much more
Retail chip-and-PIN devices can easily be attacked, exposing banks, retailers and consumers to serious fraud around the world, a British security company has claimed at the Black Hat Security Conference taking place in Las Vegas in the US this week. Researchers
Altron subsidiary Bytes Technology Group has acquired Alliance Business Solutions, an Oracle software specialist, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition has been done through Bytes Systems Integration. The rationale for the deal
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
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
