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An unidentified hacker group has made most of the South African Press Association’s archives publicly available and searchable for free, violating the copyright of new owner Sekunjalo Investment Holdings. The group says

Eskom’s “big data” scientists are changing the way its decision makers operate, with mechanisms starting to predict when and where technical faults occur, delegates at the African Utility Week in Cape Town heard on Thursday. Speaking about the

The leafy Johannesburg suburbs of Saxonwold and Parkwood are next in line to get fibre to the home (FTTH) from telecommunications start-up Vumatel, it was announced on Thursday. The Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents

CNN has developed an online tool to measure how your salary stacks up against the global average as well as where you place in your own country. The media company developed the application to draw attention to the World Economic Forum

MTN Business is launching a pan-African “Internet of things” (IoT) platform to provide advanced management features for connected devices and Sim cards and allow for networked devices to exchange information and perform actions. The platform

The Gauteng department of education has rubbished reports that suggest the provincial government’s plan to distribute tablets into classrooms to improve education has come to an end with the recall of up to 88 000 tablets. Reports published

Naspers investors are breathing a sigh of relief following the release of results from Chinese subsidiary Tencent that were better than analysts had forecast. Net income climbed by

Democratic Alliance shadow minister of telecommunications & postal services Marian Shinn has accused the minister, Siyabonga Cwele, of creating another useless government talk shop. Cwele