Fast-growing independent data centre operator Teraco Data Environments has increased the size of its medium-term funding facility to R400m. The additional funding has been secured from Barclays Africa
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More than a quarter of IBM’s employees could be laid off later this week, according to a column on Forbes’s website penned by well-known technology industry author and columnist Robert X Cringely
Alcatel-Lucent has won the contract from Vodacom to build a fibre broadband network into South African businesses and homes, the telecommunications equipment vendor said on Monday. The company, which is headquartered in France, has been
Eskom implemented load shedding at 11am on Monday and will continue with the rolling blackouts until 10pm tonight, the electricity utility said. Due to electricity demand that has exceeded supply, Eskom implemented load shedding in stage one
The second hand of the Doomsday Clock is now only three minutes to midnight. This is the closest to apocalypse we have come since 1984 – the coldest of Cold War years, just a year after Able Archer, the Petrov incident and Reagan’s “evil empire” speech. The
Two of the world’s hottest technology start-ups, restaurant search and discovery service Zomato and transportation app developer Uber, have announced a global partnership — and the fruits of it will be seen in South Africa first. The fruits of
MTN South Africa has launched a new product called Data Share that allows its customers to share their data bundles with up to 20 other MTN numbers without incurring any Sim linking or
There will be load shedding even if it may cost the ANC votes. This is the expressed attitude of public enterprises minister Lynne Brown, who remains resolute about fixing the problems plaguing power utility Eskom for the long term, even if it means doing the unpopular
There were no power cuts planned for Monday but the electricity grid remained constrained, Eskom said. “There is no load shedding being implemented at present,” Eskom’s media desk said in an e-mail. “The power system is constrained and will remain so for
Microsoft is making a play for emerging markets with two new low-cost Windows Phone smartphones. The Lumia 435, which is coming to markets across the world