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John Nash, mathematician and Nobel laureate in economics, died in a taxi accident on 23 May. He was 86. His wife, Alicia, was with him and also did not survive the crash. The Nashes were on their way home to Princeton from Norway, where John was

The world’s cellphone manufacturers will sell 1,4bn smartphones in 2015, generating US$300bn in sales. Indeed, smartphone sales will dwarf the sale of all PCs, televisions, tablets and game consoles

Telkom’s wholesale price cuts of up to 63% announced last month have so far failed to translate into lower prices for those with broadband digital subscriber lines. Internet service providers (ISPs) that were prepared to comment were not expecting to

The recent announcement by Tesla of Powerwall, its new lithium-ion-based residential battery storage system, has caused quite a stir. It even raises the possibility of going off the grid, relying upon solar panels to generate electricity, and storing it with their

Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele presented his budget vote speech last week and concealed among the details is a ticking time bomb that’s about to go off on mobile operators, broadcasters and Internet service providers

There’s a hole in the protection surrounding some of the Internet’s supposedly secure websites. A group of researchers has discovered that cyber criminals and other hackers can attack websites that

South Africa’s big three mobile operators have taken a “short-term view to satisfy their shareholders” by increasing the price of their post-paid packages, a decision that could come back to haunt them in the longer term. That’s one of the conclusions

There’s this guy that’s pretty sure the thing you’re looking at right now is one of the greatest threats to humanity. No, he’s not talking about our growing obsession with staring at sheets of digitised glass, and the unhealthy sedentary existence associated

A tiny cube, slightly smaller than a loaf of bread, is the new manna to heaven, as the number of nanosatellites being hurled into orbit is increasing substantially. Nanosatellites are small satellites weighing between 1kg and 10kg. CubeSats are box-shaped