Author: Staff Reporter

Researchers from the South African Astronomical Observatory have helped find a new exoplanet, 320 light years from Earth, that exhibits unusual characteristics. SAAO, with other researchers from around the world, found

Mastercard will work with South African partners to bring biometric cards to local consumers by the end of the year. The development follows two separate trials conducted recently with Pick n Pay and Absa. South Africa is the first

Neotel has a new chief financial officer and a new chief sales and marketing officer following the acquisition of the company by Liquid Telecom in a R6,5bn deal. The company, which has been rebranded as Neotel Liquid Telecom, has

Holders of registered trademarks have been warned to secure .africa domain names before a “sunrise” phase ends in early June, or risk high legal costs later. “There are innumerable complexities involved in trying to wrest intellectual

A financial accountant at MTN has been arrested by the Hawks for allegedly stealing almost R24m from the mobile operator over a 21-month period starting in July 2015. According to a statement by the

One of South Africa’s largest Web hosting companies, Hetzner, is now peering with Internet service providers, telecommunications operators and content distribution networks at Teraco’s NAPAfrica network peering facility in Isando. Hetzner, which hosts

First National Bank’s transactional banking application for smartphones now supports augmented reality (AR) technology, the company said on Wednesday. The new app, which was launched on the Google

Newly appointed Altron CEO Mteto Nyati has moved quickly to stamp his authority on the listed technology company, naming a new executive committee and scrapping “redundant” positions. The idea behind the restructuring is to

Just a week after downgrading South Africa’s foreign currency rating to “junk”, S&P Global Ratings has changed its rating outlook on the country’s biggest fixed-line telecommunications operator, Telkom, to “negative”. Its rating has been

Seacom said at the weekend that an outage is affecting services to some clients. The problem, on segment 15 of the Seacom submarine cable system, is located slightly west of Djibouti in the Red Sea and occurred on 8 April at about 9pm South