Worldwide IT spending will grow by 2,7% in 2017 to reach US$3,5 trillion (a staggering R47,5 trillion in soft-currency terms), according to a new forecast from Gartner. The analyst firm said 2017 is poised to be a “rebound
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As Norway switches off its FM radio network this week, other nations have abandoned similar plans, leaving the Scandinavian country a lonely beacon of digital-only broadcasting in a world that’s rapidly
Robert Mugabe’s government has been accused of using new regulated floor prices for telecommunications services as a way of making it unaffordable for Zimbabweans to use social media. The country’s telecommunications regulator
Bitcoin fell more than 16% on worries that Chinese authorities are going to tighten their oversight of the digital currency. The price of bitcoin touched a low of US$761,86 on Wednesday, down more than 16% on the day
Eskom issued a statement on Tuesday night highlighting the net loss to the economy of R9bn in 2016 as a result of its renewable power purchases from independent power producers. This follows Eskom being criticised for its
The Sun Exchange, a Western Cape-based company “streaming money from sunshine”, appears to have clocked a trio of firsts upon the completion of its pilot project: crowdfunding a solar photovoltaic plant at the
Cell C has blamed the depreciation in the value of the rand against the US dollar for its decision, announced on Monday, to increase prices of a wide range of its prepaid and contract packages. The mobile operator, which is in the
Yahoo, or rather what will be left of it once it has sold its operational Internet assets to Verizon Communications in a $4,8bn deal, will change its name to the rather obscure Altaba, the US company said in a regulatory filing
Samsung Group is getting pulled deeper into the scandal engulfing Korea’s president, with prosecutors homing in on whether an US$830 000 horse and millions in other payments were made to smooth succession at the top of the country’s
Mobile operator Cell C is hiking the price of out-of-bundle data by more than 10% on many of its tariff plans, while also pushing up contract and data subscription charges. In a notice published on the company’s website, it said out-of-bundle